October 2020 - Seasons

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LOCATION

  1. The flavor text is an instruction.
  2. Shift the letters only 23.5° (i.e. one space).
  3. The W of winter is shifted by -3.
  4. THE TILTED AXIS OF OUR PLANET

Unbridled Optimism

  1. The five clue-pairs give the following five words: STEP HEM BACH POP MANY
  2. If the L-shaped letter grid is cut and folded correctly, it should look like a square paper spring.
  3. The letters on the spring are in pairs, one is R and M. What might you do with this?
  4. The pairs are the cipher. So all the M's in the original words are R's.
  5. HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL

Chillin' in the Multiplex

  1. Once the six squares are cut out, there is only one way to arrange them into a cube such that each vertex (corner) contains a movie character, the actor who starred as that character and a loose description of the movie that character was in. To add to the challenge, each of the four movie descriptions is used twice.
  2. Once you have the cube assembled, you should get 8 movie titles that can be entered alphabetically in the provided grid.
  3. The film strip is your final extraction.
  4. The large numbers are the indexing. For example, 5,3 is movie 5 (GHOST) letter 3 (O), and the small numbers show you where that letter appears in the solution (positions 4 and 19).
  5. A BLOCKBUSTER'S BEST FOR SUMMER

Autumnal Gold

  1. This puzzle uses semaphore.
  2. Spell each leaf name using semaphore starting at its leaf and ending at the X.
  3. Look at the path you drew.
  4. The letters crossed out spell 'WHAT ARE THE ODDS'.
  5. Take the odd letters of those not crossed off.
  6. A TREMENDOUS WINDFALL

Snow Blindness

  1. The large numbers indicate how many neighboring hexagons are shaded in.
  2. There is only one solution where the snowflake grid is symmetrical and all branches are connected.
  3. Following the six-fold symmetry, this pattern is the only solution for the snowflake.
  4. Each small number indicates the braille pattern (slightly distorted) for the two-by-three array of hexagons below it. For example, the 3rd letter is N.
  5. WINTER WHITEOUT

Meta

  1. There is only one way to fit in the main set answers in the circle. Notice that each word is actually visually represented.
  2. Pair up each image to an answer word where they rhyme.
  3. The unused letters are your answer.
  4. JUST ONE MORE TRIP AROUND THE SUN

Bonus - TURN, TURN, TURN

  1. Each answer in the grid has one "turn".
  2. The turn is important for the solution.
  3. Take each letter at the turn and order by the number given with the clue.
  4. THERE IS A SEASON