Hey folks, my friend uses this app called Timehop which periodically posts these little puzzles, and I thought some of you would find them fun to complete. Here's the link: https://www.timehop.com/puzzleparty
So far I've solved #1 and #3 (answers in the comments) and I'm working through #4. #2 has eluded me so far but I'm hoping I'll figure it out eventually.
pretty sure i have 2
CLOCK
Each graph is a ring of branches. If you go around the ring clockwise starting from the highlighted node and add up the number of sides of each shape you get numbers that correspond to letters. If you do this for each graph, you get a simple riddle: FACE WITH TWO HANS AND TUELVE LUMBERS [sic].
I'm not sure why it's misspelled, I triple checked my arithmetic, but maybe it's a clue for one of the other puzzles.
Nice! Glad I had noticed all the pieces but putting them together stymied me:
I assumed it was asking for numbers of sides but I kept on treating circles as '0' which was just dumb on my part. Those typos are weird (I did get TWELVE instead of TUELVE) so maybe they have something to do with number 4 since it is a clock but without them explicitly mentioning that it seems unlikely to me.
Oh wait, you're right, that is a W. I still can't account for the other typos, but that one was a mistake by me
got 4
FIRST
Each of the songs mentions a time
- "It's a quarter to two"
- "And I remember that flight, 2:30AM"
- "Just about half past ten"
- "The 6 o' clock alarm would never ring"
- "It's a quarter after one"
The hour hand for each mentioned time corresponds to a circle on the clock face, and the minute hand points to which letter it is within the circle.
Very impressive!
I was trying to figure out if the hands in their position on the image were important, but really should have just looked deeper into the lyrics.
Puzzle #1 Answer
The key here is to notice that each of the five digits are counting down from 9 to 0, with some of the pieces of individual digits missing from the display. I wrote out all the sequences and identified the numbers with blank sections, and then combined all the missing sections for each column. Each one returned a single letter, giving us the five letter code:
Code:
CHEER
Puzzle #3 Answer
Here we have five clues relating to the 2023 calendar:
1.) The heart between 13 and 15 most likely references Valentine's Day. I originally though the answer was 'February', but that's too many letters. Instead (and based on other answers) we are looking for the day of the week, which in this case will be TUESDAY.
2.) 12 numbers suggest one for each month, and checking the calendar shows that each of these dates (Jan 2, Feb 6, Mar 6, etc.) land on MONDAY.
3.) The 162nd day of the year is June 9th, a FRIDAY.
4.) The blank suggests it comes after the 28th day but before a second, meaning this must be referencing March 1st, a WEDNESDAY.
5.) Similar to #2, 12 numbers suggest one per month. In this case, we are looking for a day of the week that occurs that many times in each month. The only one that matches exactly is THURSDAY.
With all the highlighted letters, we get the code:
Code:
TOAST
