Half-Past Hoodwinked [Answers Posted]

[Xara]

I think it was “What is the crook going after?” but don’t remember if that was the exact wording P:

👁👁 damn almost 19 years old and i never learned how to read,, i’m one step closer to becoming jared

 

[Geoni]

I thought round 2 was a lot trickier than 1 and 3. I translated the whole thing each time during the dead hours at work lol.

 

[mogyay]

yay thanks for hosting kaiaa, i loved this event! i'm glad i didn't overthink the question/answers too much, i didn't even really think about interpreting it any other way haha, i managed to get them all correct yay, i wasn't sure if i should have done round 3 a different way but i'm glad i got there in the end haha

 

[Aronthaer]

glad to see I'm not the only one who had problems with prompt #2, but let's not harass the mods over this. it's all said and done

 

[samsquared]

For those who said that you assumed the painting had already been stolen and that’s why the frame was empty in Question 2, I think that Big Top was in Redd’s hideout. In the full decoded message, Big Top tells Rocket that he’s snuck into Redd’s hideout and that is where he finds the empty frame. (From my memory- i could be totally wrong, i threw out the paper i did this on!)

 

[Luxen]

For those who said that you assumed the painting had already been stolen and that’s why the frame was empty in Question 2, I think that Big Top was in Redd’s hideout. In the full decoded message, Big Top tells Rocket that he’s snuck into Redd’s hideout and that is where he finds the empty frame. (From my memory- i could be totally wrong, i threw out the paper i did this on!)

Yeah, that's pretty much what happened during the events of Q#2.
I was reminded of this clip whenever I saw those posts:

 

[Zerous]

Thanks for hosting this! I enjoy brain teasers and puzzles so i really enjoyed this event
Seems to be less common, but I found 2 to be the easiest, then 1, then 3

 

[marshallows]

woot! this is the event i'm going to miss the most tbh.
got 3 for 3 right and it totally makes me feel so much better about myself after the disaster that's the house of nightmares

thanks again for hosting @Kaiaa!

 

[SinnerTheCat]

Oooooh so that's why I got the 2nd one wrong!! I guess I just thought too generally about it when I put "real artworks from the museum" as my answer

This was such a great event!! I love decoding messages Thank you staff for making this possible and accessible to people who aren't native English speakers, it was super fun

 

[Alienfish]

Yeah I definitely enjoyed this and I don't bash any staff but yeah just 3 was just tricky for people not having English as their 1st language.

 

[Chris]

Hi staff! I answered code number two correctly (I thought I was losing my mind thinking it was wrong) but it never got accepted
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Edit: photo added

Your answer was submitted incorrectly due to not filling out the "Text Entry" and "Round #" fields. Our system was unable to detect your answer without these fields filled in. I have manually accepted it now.

 

[TaylaJade]

Your answer was submitted incorrectly due to not filling out the "Text Entry" and "Round #" fields. Our system was unable to detect your answer without these fields filled in. I have manually accepted it now.

Thank you so much! Sorry for the mistake.

 

[Rubombee]

Oh hey if we're sharing deciphering methods then I just wanna show just how way-too-invested I got into the 3rd prompt :D

I figured I'd have to try to find each letter one by one, so I decided to go write code (yes actual code in Python) both as an exercise cause I was rusty and to make deciphering easier! which is paradoxical because without having to write the code i would've probably been faster, but when i was done deciphering really was super quick

I had one text file where I wrote the entire code manually, another that was the key I edited as I figured out letters, and then the code file. I got the "dear" which gave me "redd" so I knew I was right, and then I found out English only has two 1 letter words (I and a) so I had "i" and then everything fell into piece and it was super satisfying!!

Spoiler: enjoy da code (ft. my very insightful comments)

### open da file and tear text apart ###

with open("hoodwinked_r3") as textfile:
    text = textfile.read().split("\n")

iP = 0
for paragraph in text:
    text[iP] = list(paragraph)
    iP +=1


### open key and make it a dict ###

with open("hoodwinked_key") as keyfile:
    splitkey = keyfile.read().split("\n")

cipherkey = {}
for pair in splitkey:
    if pair != "":
        encoded, decoded = pair.split(" ")
        cipherkey[encoded] = decoded


### d e c i p h e r i n g ###

iP = 0  # index of paragraph
iC = 0  # index of character
for paragraph in text:
    for char in paragraph:
        if char in cipherkey.keys():
            text[iP][iC] = cipherkey[char]
        iC +=1
    iC = 0
    iP +=1


### stick it back together with hot glue ###

finaltext = ""
for paragraph in text:
    finalparag = "".join(paragraph)
    finaltext += finalparag + "\n"

print(finaltext)

 

[SleepyMimeko]

Thanks for making these. I'm not too great at the artistic stuff that most of the contests are themed around.
I think I got the answer to round three correct. My answer was:
Mira caught Redd, the crook, red handed because he fell for the passive infrared laser system.
Maybe my answer was a bit too wordy, but I wasn't sure if it was red handed or infrared laser system.
I thought I would just put both.

 

[LadyDestani]

For those who said that you assumed the painting had already been stolen and that’s why the frame was empty in Question 2, I think that Big Top was in Redd’s hideout. In the full decoded message, Big Top tells Rocket that he’s snuck into Redd’s hideout and that is where he finds the empty frame. (From my memory- i could be totally wrong, i threw out the paper i did this on!)

That is the way I am remembering it too. The empty frame labeled 'flowery painting' was in Redd's hideout, so he was planning to steal the flowery painting from the museum to put in his empty frame.

 

[Livia]

That is the way I am remembering it too. The empty frame labeled 'flowery painting' was in Redd's hideout, so he was planning to steal the flowery painting from the museum to put in his empty frame.

that makes so much more sense now. I thought the empty frame was in the museum because it doesn’t say in the message where it is. I feel stupid for not realizing they were on Redd’s boat. This is the decoded message from my notes.

Spoiler

I have eyes on your position. What is going on in there?

We have found a lot of strange artwork.

What do you mean?

Some of it is real but the rest is counterfeit
But the weirdest thing is an empty frame labelled flowery painting.
What do you think it means?

He’s going to raid the museum! On my way to tell blathers, vroom!

 

[kayleee]

That is the way I am remembering it too. The empty frame labeled 'flowery painting' was in Redd's hideout, so he was planning to steal the flowery painting from the museum to put in his empty frame.

Ohhh that makes so much sense, I interpreted it as the empty frame was in the museum as if he already took the Flowery Painting

 

[Farfle_Productions]

that makes so much more sense now. I thought the empty frame was in the museum because it doesn’t say in the message where it is. I feel stupid for not realizing they were on Redd’s boat. This is the decoded message from my notes.

Spoiler

I have eyes on your position. What is going on in there?

We have found a lot of strange artwork.

What do you mean?

Some of it is real but the rest is counterfeit
But the weirdest thing is an empty frame labelled flowery painting.
What do you think it means?

He’s going to raid the museum! On my way to tell blathers, vroom!

I think because they spoke about real and counterfeit paintings I knew they were in Redd’s boat. Blathers doesn’t take counterfeits after all!

 

[nightxshift]

Wait how did you guys crack 2 and 3 codes? Can’t find the solutions 0-0

 

[Hypno KK]

This was definitely the best event of the fair haha. I love puzzles and stuff like that so I had a blast cracking the codes. How do we know if we were the first to answer correctly? I'm guessing I wasn't the first on any of them but I'm really curious.

Wait how did you guys crack 2 and 3 codes? Can’t find the solutions 0-0

They took down the images so I can't remember for sure but I think in #2 you went back or forward a certain number of letters in the alphabet. In #3, each symbol stood for a letter.