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House spider: Was there an "aha"? If so, what was it? Was it too obvious, not obvious enough, or about right, any way? There are two realizations needed to solve this puzzle. The first is that all the sections are anagrams for sicknesses. The other is that each disease is missing a letter, to be used for the final solution. We figured out the connection to diseases, but were thrown of by the missing letters, unfortunately the first few we solved were plausible disease names with and without the missing letter. Did it have flavortext? If so, was it too helpful, too obscure, or about right, and why? If it was not great, do you have any suggestions for improvement? There was flavortext, we were able to figure out the answers were diseases based …show more content…

Did that feel about right, too little, or too much, given the context of the puzzle? I was not that involved in the puzzle once my teammates understood the puzzle. But I understand that this puzzle would take some work as the missing letters prevent the solver from straight out using an anagram solver to get the solution. For the two part clues we managed to use the anagram solver to get one portion of that answer and used a web search to figure out what the most likely second part was. Hobo spider: Was there an "aha"? If so, what was it? Was it too obvious, not obvious enough, or about right, any why? There was a small “aha” in significance of the spiders. I was too focused on the idea of using a map to get the solution I did not think to check the physical locations. However, once I learned there were actual spiders at the locations, the puzzle was obvious in hindsight. Did it have flavortext? If so, was it too helpful, too obscure, or about right, and why? If it was not great, do you have any suggestions for …show more content…

My conclusion on the rules is that the solver must form a complete loop that does not touch or intersect itself. The line must make a corner in the squares before and after passing through an orange line, and in one of the squares adjacent to a brown line. Also, the loop must pass through all orange and brown lines. I was able to solve the 5x5 and 8x8 puzzles, but I did not figure out the “aha” to relating the puzzle to the lower grid to get a solution. In other words, figuring out the upper puzzle was relatively obvious, whereas how to connect it to the final solution was not obvious

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