Half-Past Hoodwinked [Answers Posted]

[Dinosaurz]

Yeahhh I got them all right!
i put full sentences for my answer like “That sneaky redd fell for my passive infrared laser system”

 

[BetsySundrop]

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 )

Lol, I had same thought process. The flowery painting was already gone, so I thought that couldn't be it. I thought it was raid the museum. Glad to see I wasn't the only one.

 

[LittleMissPanda]

I'm a little bummed I missed the second round but overall this was a really fun event! And I'm happy I got the first and third round answers correct! I love love LOVE puzzles! Thanks so much, staff! <3<3<3

 

[Mick]

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!

I also figured it was going to be the laser system! I just wanted to include red-handed it just in case it actually was going to be that

 

[Alienfish]

I also figured it was going to be the laser system! I just wanted to include red-handed it just in case it actually was going to be that

Yeah, I dunno how Kaiaa went as for accepting answers but yeah it sure got me doubting after I solved the whole thing, but yeah I went with passive infrared laser system lol

 

[BetsySundrop]

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.

And Redd has made plenty of bells selling his forgeries to me!

 

[Red Cat]

I also figured it was going to be the laser system! I just wanted to include red-handed it just in case it actually was going to be that

It would have been better if they found his paw prints because then he would have been caught "Redd handed".

 

[Chris]

I also figured it was going to be the laser system! I just wanted to include red-handed it just in case it actually was going to be that

Yeah, I dunno how Kaiaa went as for accepting answers but yeah it sure got me doubting after I solved the whole thing, but yeah I went with passive infrared laser system lol

Had "red-handed" been submitted on it's own it would have been incorrect. We asked for the method used to catch the crook. I realise English is a second language for both* of you so I'm not sure if this could have been misinterpreted in translation.

*I think it is in Mick's case, anyway!

 

[JellyBeans]

I managed to get all of them - this event was tons of fun! but I didn't actually manage to figure out the logic behind the third one - I just figured out obvious words and filled in the gaps from there. was there an obvious logic I was missing?

 

[Alienfish]

Had "red-handed" been submitted on it's own it would have been incorrect. We asked for the method used to catch the crook. I realise English is a second language for both you* so I'm not sure if this could have been misinterpreted in translation.

*I think it is in Mick's case, anyway!

Yeah my mother tongue is Swedish so therefore I doubted myself since it was an idiom as well.

I'd say it's idiomatically how he could have been caught so there is that but yeah, glad I went with the actual method.

 

[Dinosaurz]

I can see how it would be difficult saying “red handed” when You don’t understand it’s a metaphor some people could take it literal

 

[ReeBear]

Here it is, what you’ve all been waiting for the
Answers:

Code 1: North Beach

Code 2: Flowery Painting

Code 3: Infrared laser system

I uh. Answered both 2 and 3 correctly, just framed both in full sentences for clarity, and no accepted? ;-;

Spoiler: Screenshots of answers

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[Alienfish]

I can see how it would be difficult saying “red handed” when You don’t understand it’s a metaphor some people could take it literal

Yeah that's what I did but then I searched up what it meant and I was like... yeah lol xD

 

[Damniel]

this was a fun event! I found finding the cipher to be really fun. Round one was really straightforward in that the first letter in the name of the fruit shown was the sign, and some of the fruits i didn’t know but you can kinda just fill in the blanks for/PoE

round 2 is also pretty straightforward since the key is just laying out the alphabet and finding which letter is the “new start” of the alphabet. So like, if S was the key, you’d assign S to A, T to B, U to C and keep going down. all you really need to do is just find a space you know for sure is a letter (i think contradictions/lone letter words the best for figuring that out) and work from there

round 3 took me a little longer, but i knew since it was a letter, the first word was probably “Dear” and the beginning of the body had a 3 letter contradiction that was easy to figure out. so after you deduce those it was just PoE to figure out what works make sense

this event was basically just find the key, and it’ll all fall into place. very fun!

 

[Chris]

I uh. Answered both 2 and 3 correctly, just framed both in full sentences for clarity, and no accepted? ;-;

It looks like you incorrectly submitted your answers to Round 2 and 3 by not using the text entry & round number fields, so your answers weren't registered. I have manually accepted them now.

 

[ReeBear]

It looks like you incorrectly submitted your answers to Round 2 and 3 by not using the text entry & round number fields, so your answers weren't registered. I have manually accepted them now.

dadgum my dyslexia ahaha, thank you ☺

Will the tickets for round 2 be included in the next batch? :3

 

[Farfle_Productions]

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!

This is how I worked out mine too!

 

[Mick]

Had "red-handed" been submitted on it's own it would have been incorrect. We asked for the method used to catch the crook. I realise English is a second language for both you* so I'm not sure if this could have been misinterpreted in translation.

*I think it is in Mick's case, anyway!

I can confirm that it is indeed a second language to me! I do use it so much that at this point, I think I write it better than my native one haha. I know what it means! Just wanted to cover all my bases in the answer.

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.

We don't need Booker and Copper. We have Mira, Kid Cat and Big Top and they are doing just fine!

I figured the frame could be empty because Redd was going to replace the one in the museum with a forgery and take the real one back to the boat. Then again, he does sell both real and fake art for the same price so maybe this wasn't the plan after all.

 

[cornimer]

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 )

Yeah I made the same mistake, I thought the flowery painting had already been taken

What was the pattern for puzzle 3? I never figured the code out

 

[Chris]

I figured the frame could be empty because Redd was going to replace the one in the museum with a forgery and take the real one back to the boat. Then again, he does sell both real and fake art for the same price so maybe this wasn't the plan after all.

That was exactly the plan! He made forgeries and then swapped them with the real ones so that no one noticed.