Sea Round
MARY MALLON
BISMARCK
HOAGIE
Pittsburgh Round
SCHOOL OF THOUGHT
NEIGHBORHOOD
PHOTO BOOTH
This is a puzzle about the board game Battleship. Each of the sea answers clues one of the ships in Battleship: MARY MALLON, A.K.A. Typhoid Mary was a Carrier of typhoid, the BISMARCK was a German Battleship in World War II, and a HOAGIE is also known as a Submarine sandwich.
In addition, the Pittsburgh answers each have a disproportionate number of Hs and Os. Each one has a number of H and Os equal to the length of one of the records of at-bats. This tells us which squares are Hits and which squares are Outs (misses).
Record of At-Bats: |
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NEIGHBORHOOD |
G7 C1 J8 J7 G8 |
PHOTO BOOTH |
I8 F8 G3 C7 J4 C3 |
SCHOOL OF THOUGHT |
F3 H4 E7 C6 H8 G9 G4 |
Now, we can construct a Battleship game board. We're looking for a Submarine (length 3), Battleship (length 4) and Carrier (length 5). There is only one possible way to place these 3 ships given the record of hits and misses. In addition, we note that the lengths of the sea answers are each twice the length of the boat they represent, so we place two letters in each square of these boats.
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
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A | ||||||||||
B | MA | |||||||||
C | O | RY | O | O | ||||||
D | MA | |||||||||
E | LL | O | ||||||||
F | ON | O | ||||||||
G | O | BI | SM | AR | CK | O | O | |||
H | O | HO | ||||||||
I | AG | |||||||||
J | O | O | IE |
Triplets | Answer |
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Angry | MAD |
Belief suffix | ISM |
Expression of disgust | ICK |
German grandmother | OMA |
Long period of time | EON |
Menswear | TIE |
Not wet | DRY |
Sister's husband: abbr. | BIL |
Swine | HOG |
Unwell | ILL |
Viscous black liquid | TAR |
Witch | HAG |
Finally, to extract, we note that each triplet consists of two of the letters from one of the bigrams in the grid plus a new letter. Take the new letters from the hit squares to get the answer, DELIGHT.