Question 1

Hint 1

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The Crafty Corner looks like a good place to start.

Question 2

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You’ll need to combine the two quilt templates to reveal a secret message.

Question 3

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There are no numbers here, but it does look like there are words that rhyme with numbers.

Question 4

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Every word in the quilt rhymes with a number, and for our purposes, words can’t rhyme with themselves!

Question 5

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- pine = nine
- rate lean = eighteen
- poor = four
- if seen = fifteen
- shelve = twelve
- nun = one
- swore mean = fourteen
- glue = two
- eleven spleen = seventeen
- heaven = eleven
- skate = eight
- jive = five
- tricks = six
- mix clean = sixteen
- eleven = seven
- sea = three
- zen = ten
- per bean = thirteen

Question 6

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Each rhyming number corresponds to two letters on the opposite quilt.

Question 7

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Put the pairs of letters in order, based on their rhyming numbers. “nun” rhymes with “one”, so the first two letters of your secret message is “PU”

Question 8

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Once you’ve decoded the quilt message, you should find the message “PUSH SPEECH UP FOR A HOME SCORE DOWN FOR AWAY”

Question 9

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The secret message you found in the quilt templates will be helpful in combination with the sports section and the arts section.

Question 10

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The Home team and the Visiting team never scored a run in the same inning. That’s pretty coincidental, given that they played so many innings.

Question 11

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Reference the sports scores to LITERALLY push the speech up or down for each inning.

Question 12

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Go letter by letter of the speech in the Arts section.
 
If the Home team scored a point that inning, move the letter above the current line of text.
If the Visitors scored a point that inning, move the letter below the current line of text.
If no one scored a point that inning, leave the letter where it is.

Question 13

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After you’ve moved each letter in the speech, you will have three lines of text that give you instructions.

Question 14

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After you’ve pushed the letters up and down, you should see the message:
“Fold right e
dge to star fold le
ft to diamond”

Question 15

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Take a closer look at the robot on the front page.

Question 16

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Fold the sides of the paper towards the robot, so that the edge touches either the diamonds or the stars.

Question 17

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After the paper is folded, there is a secret message beneath the robot.

Question 18

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The secret message beneath the robot is "From opinion, take first from the first through the seventh from the seventh."

Question 19

Hint 19

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Take the first word from the first paragraph of the opinion article, then the second word from the second paragraph, and so on until you have a seven word sentence.

Question 20

Hint 20

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"Take upside-down pins from beginnings otherwise ends"

Question 21

Hint 21

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Use the number on the pin to inform how many letters you should take from the quote next to the pin.
 
Use whether the pin is right-side up or upside-down to inform if you take the letters from the beginning or ending of the quote.

Question 22

Solution

Accepted Answer

When you collect the appropriate number of letters from the beginning or end of each phrase, you end up with "E", "XT", "ER", "MIN", "A", "TE", which you can read left to right to get the final answer "EXTERMINATE." 
 
(Uh, *gulp* exterminate?!)

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