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Red Cat
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The third question was a trick question. Redd was never "caught". Redd was detected stealing the flowery painting, but no one arrested him since Copper and Booker were removed from ACNH, so Redd was able to easily steal it after distracting Blathers with a sea bass and take off with his boat, make hundreds of forgeries of the painting, get filthy rich, and live happily ever after.
Bcat
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It’s a Cesar cipher. I’ve watched enough Gravity falls to know one on sight lmao
samsquared
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I sympathize with your frustrations. It sucks to do all the work right, understand everything, and still be told your answer is wrong. But I have to agree with Red Cat & Luffy here. The best way to answer questions like these to parrot whatever has already been said. You don't want to leave any room for doubt about your answer.
If given this passage:
Redd went to Nook's Cranny on Saturday. Timmy and Tommy ran to get Tom Nook, who came back to the shop with them very angry. Tom says, "Redd, leave this store immediately." Redd responds to Nook, "OK partner, give me a call when you change your mind." Redd leaves a business card on the counter and exits the store. Tommy picks it up and looks at it warily.
If I ask you: "In the above passage, who was Redd talking to?"
You don't want to be misinterpreted or treated like your answer is wrong.
If you respond: "The shop owner" or "The boss"- none of this information was given in the passage. You may already know it because you know who Tom Nook is, but the passage didn't give you that info, so that answer would almost certainly be counted WRONG. There also were no context clues to tell you that Nook was the boss or the shop owner- he could be, based on this passage, their dad for all we know.
Even "Nook" may not fly. "Nook" could refer to any of the Nooks in the store. Nook is put there to "clarify" who he is talking to, but also to throw you off if you don't read the passage closely. The verb is "responds", so who is he responding to specifically?
You should respond: "Tom Nook" to be CORRECT. It's frustrating, but true.
Now (answers revealed as i was writing this! wow!) we can go over the answer to #2. The question, if you remember was "What is the criminal/thief after?" (or something similar).
In the passage, Rocket states "He's going to the museum!" (or something like this.)
I assume a lot of people put "The museum" as the answer, but this is incorrect. He is going to the museum, but he is not after the whole museum. The answer is above, when Big Top says, "There's an empty frame labeled flowery painting". To which Rocket replies, "He's targeting the museum!" (or something similar). What could Redd be after in the museum is the real question.
If the testmaker wanted us to answer "museum", she probably would have said "WHERE is the criminal going?" But she wants us to use context clues to gather WHAT he is going to do while in the museum. You can infer by the context clues that he will steal a flowery painting to fill the empty frame. Thus the very literal answer of "he is after the flowery painting". As a grader, the answer artwork would also have likely been counted wrong, as it isn't specific to the scenario. Painting may have been counted correct because the word painting was used in the passage specifically.
Any time you take a reading test, this will be what a tester is looking for- I was a college entrance exams (SAT) tutor for a while & I had to train kids to see these little trip ups all of the time. But learning to address direct questions literally now will greatly improve your ability to do it in real life.
On another note, this fair event is just for fun! Yes, it can be frustrating to be wrong or to not have our answers picked. But we're learning new things every day! There will be a next time to try again & win it all.
If given this passage:
Redd went to Nook's Cranny on Saturday. Timmy and Tommy ran to get Tom Nook, who came back to the shop with them very angry. Tom says, "Redd, leave this store immediately." Redd responds to Nook, "OK partner, give me a call when you change your mind." Redd leaves a business card on the counter and exits the store. Tommy picks it up and looks at it warily.
If I ask you: "In the above passage, who was Redd talking to?"
You don't want to be misinterpreted or treated like your answer is wrong.
If you respond: "The shop owner" or "The boss"- none of this information was given in the passage. You may already know it because you know who Tom Nook is, but the passage didn't give you that info, so that answer would almost certainly be counted WRONG. There also were no context clues to tell you that Nook was the boss or the shop owner- he could be, based on this passage, their dad for all we know.
Even "Nook" may not fly. "Nook" could refer to any of the Nooks in the store. Nook is put there to "clarify" who he is talking to, but also to throw you off if you don't read the passage closely. The verb is "responds", so who is he responding to specifically?
You should respond: "Tom Nook" to be CORRECT. It's frustrating, but true.
Now (answers revealed as i was writing this! wow!) we can go over the answer to #2. The question, if you remember was "What is the criminal/thief after?" (or something similar).
In the passage, Rocket states "He's going to the museum!" (or something like this.)
I assume a lot of people put "The museum" as the answer, but this is incorrect. He is going to the museum, but he is not after the whole museum. The answer is above, when Big Top says, "There's an empty frame labeled flowery painting". To which Rocket replies, "He's targeting the museum!" (or something similar). What could Redd be after in the museum is the real question.
If the testmaker wanted us to answer "museum", she probably would have said "WHERE is the criminal going?" But she wants us to use context clues to gather WHAT he is going to do while in the museum. You can infer by the context clues that he will steal a flowery painting to fill the empty frame. Thus the very literal answer of "he is after the flowery painting". As a grader, the answer artwork would also have likely been counted wrong, as it isn't specific to the scenario. Painting may have been counted correct because the word painting was used in the passage specifically.
Any time you take a reading test, this will be what a tester is looking for- I was a college entrance exams (SAT) tutor for a while & I had to train kids to see these little trip ups all of the time. But learning to address direct questions literally now will greatly improve your ability to do it in real life.
On another note, this fair event is just for fun! Yes, it can be frustrating to be wrong or to not have our answers picked. But we're learning new things every day! There will be a next time to try again & win it all.
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ohhh I see. somehow I figured that's what it was, but I was honestly prob too overwhelmed with everything to really figure that out.
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I looked an eye out for the villagers catchphrases and then deciphered from there. Not really a fast strategy but it deciphered 2 and 3 fine!
UglyMonsterFace
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Oh I'm sorry! I guess I misunderstood more than one thing on this event XD Btw this was my favourite event! Thank you! (Next time please have more than 3 rounds! Lol)You didn't submit your answer correctly (using the Text Entry field) so your answer was not visible to us. I've manually checked it and can see that it was correct so I've now marked it as accepted for you.
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and yes, I will add that it is a great idea to be as clear as possible with your answer. for instance the answer to #3 was simply "infrared laser system" but because I wanted to be as clear and concise as I could I wrote "Mira used her passive infrared laser system" as my answer.
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that's how I did the third one!
oh god i included the "passive" i hope thats ok LOL
UglyMonsterFace
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Can someone please repost the first puzzle since I never got to see/decode it?
samsquared
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it was! I also put the whole answer "Passive infrared laser system" and got it counted correct.
For the third one I wrote down the entire message in notepad, and since we weren't supposed to translate punctuation I figured that it started with "It's me, Mira." which let me find/replace enough letters to be able to work out the rest haha :') That was definitely my favourite one based on the method I used alone!
I think it should be, I put my answer as "red handed using a passive infrared laser system" because technically, red handed could also have been the answer to the question "How did the superheroes catch the crook?" and it was accepted
I think it should be, I put my answer as "red handed using a passive infrared laser system" because technically, red handed could also have been the answer to the question "How did the superheroes catch the crook?" and it was accepted
You've explained this better than I could have. Your explanation is 100% right in how we approached reviewing the answers.
Naturally, we have already discussed this at length as a team and already know what we can do to make this clearer in future if we choose to run an event like this again. It was a lot of work for @dizzy bone, @Kaiaa, and I to put this together and we are glad to see that it has been such a popular event!
Anything along the lines of "passive infrared laser system", "passive infrared laser", "infrared laser," "infrared laser system", etc was accepted.
Livia
Always ignored
For #2 I thought he already took the flowery painting because in the message it said the frame was empty. Then Rocket says that he is going to raid the musuem, so I answered that he was going to steal paintings from the museum. To me the flowers painting was already stolen and he was going back for more. ( I’m not arguing or anything just explaining my obviously wrong thought process )
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Matt0106
Dawn of a New Day
Here's the thing though; while the Able Sister's is a tailor shop, "Tailor Shop" isn't specific. Therefore, you wouldn't be able to just say Tailor Shop, because that doesn't fully answer the hypothetical question. That's like a question saying "Who made the Nintendo Switch?" and I put "A gaming company." Yes it's true, a gaming company made it, but which? I'm not saying it isn't possible to be confused because of course everyone interprets things differently, but you have to be specific in your answer
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I think it should be, I put my answer as "red handed using a passive infrared laser system" because technically, red handed could also have been the answer to the question "How did the superheroes catch the crook?" and it was accepted
yeah i was thinking red-handed as well, but that's more an idiom of catching someone in the act so i was.. nah bruh the method it is ahah. kinda meh since english is not my 1st language and i don't get idioms good but, yeah really nice event nonetheless!
Zane
today works for me, satan
Very cool event, I hope to see this one return! It’s not easy to make puzzles, let alone ones that are actually fun and engaging - you guys did a great job! 
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