| Strips - Solution |
| Puzzle Location: Tiburon Ferry Terminal |
| Next Puzzle: Minigames |
| By looking at the letters on the back of the strips, they can be separated into two groups of ten, one with letters oriented horizontally, and one with letters oriented vertically. |
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| The next step is to weave the horizontal the vertical strips together, making a 10 x 10 grid. Guiding the construction of the weave is the need to make a path that leads from "BIRTH" (upper left corner) to "DEATH" (lower right corner). Helpful in this regard is recognition of certain constraints on the maze format: paths cannot go off the edge of the weave and dead-ends will always end in the middle of a square. The fully constructed weave looks like this: |
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| Now comes the physically tricky part: turning the weave over to read the message on the back. To aid teams, we provided a dozen or so paperclips per puzzle. If one follows the path from "BIRTH" to "DEATH" and reads a letter per square, the solution reads |