In Registration Day Town, scholars halt their research while they sign up for the classes that will help them earn their specific degrees.
Please send two team members.
At Registration Day Town, teams were given a blank class schedule and
told to register for their semester classes. Teams would do this by going
on a mini-runaround to find twelve class listings posted in the hallways
and filling out their schedule.
However, not just any class will do. Teams are pursuing a degree in
Interdisciplinary Studies in Molasses Cleaning. While each listing will
provide three available classes, only one class is valid for this degree.
There is a hidden internal rule that determines if a class is valid. To
help teams discover the rule, they were supplied a sheet with valid and
invalid examples modeled after the previous events. The examples are
provided below.
With an understanding for how to select a valid class, teams went on the
mini-runaround to visit the twelve listings where they selected the
correct class at each and added it to their schedule. The listings are
provided below.
Once teams solved the puzzle and confirmed with Game Control, they
received a physical object to take back to their HQ. Teams were also
awarded 20 drops of solvent for completing the event.
Teams were given a blank schedule . . .
. . . and examples with which to discover the hidden internal rule:
Course GHD — Rodent Husbandry and Meteorology |
Class | Status |
Avoiding Thunderstorms and Static Cling While Caring For Your Pikachu | INVALID |
Micro Denticles and How They Destroy Your iPhone Chargers | VALID |
Course FD — Flag Design and International Communications |
Class | Status |
A Penchant for Peaceful Pennant Panache | INVALID |
Tariff Lags and Trade Delays: Is Global Economy Good for the Global Economy? | VALID |
Course MLKJD — Oration and Dream Interpretation |
Class | Status |
Andrea Martin’s Amusing Musings About Broadway Muses | VALID |
Freudian Slips: Where You Say One Thing But Mean Your Mother | INVALID |
Course TLAPD — Ocean Studies and Dialect Appropriation |
Class | Status |
Cymodocea nodosa and Other Sea Flora: The Marine Turf Wars | VALID |
Pronunciations of Aluminium: A Divide and Debate Across the Pond | INVALID |
Once solvers understood how to identify a valid class, they saw the
following listings in a random order:
Course 1 — Civil and Environmental Design Studies |
Class |
Title |
Schedule |
1.012 |
Facade Significance: Why You Should Judge a Building by Its Exterior |
T1 |
1.013 |
Imprisoned Within Neo-Brutalist Walls: How Elgin Lost His Marbles |
M2 |
1.014 |
Gaudy Gaudi: Art Nouveau or Art No-View? |
R11 |
Course 2 — Mechanical and Robot Engineering |
Class |
Title |
Schedule |
2.001 |
Asimov’s Laws: They’re Really More Like Guidelines Than Anything |
T11 |
2.014 |
Rocko’s Modern Artificial Life: AI Basilisks and Why You’re Now Implicated |
M2 |
2.015 |
Electro Botcheries: The Difference Between Buick Skylark and Brutal Skynet |
R1 |
Course 5 — Atomic and Nuclear Sciences |
Class |
Title |
Schedule |
5.004 |
Yarn Theory: More Strings For Schrodinger’s Cat to Play With |
W11 |
5.012 |
Lambda and Nu: Clear-cut Particle Identification Through Spectrometry |
T11 |
5.019 |
Non-Proliferation Through Rare Neutral Particle Detection |
F2 |
Course 5 — Atomic and Nuclear Sciences |
Class |
Title |
Schedule |
5.001 |
The Great Omicron Particle: Unlocking the Secret to Holographic Projections |
W11 |
5.011 |
Stoichiometry: Making a Mountain Out of a Molehill |
M11 |
5.013 |
Integrated Heterogeneous Kinetics and Reaction Engineering Design |
R2 |
Course 9 — Cognitive Sciences and Neural Circuitry |
Class |
Title |
Schedule |
9.007 |
Aliens and Zombies: From Probing Brains to Eating Brains |
T12 |
9.016 |
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream: Axonal Rewiring and Cellular Regeneration |
W2 |
9.018 |
Migraineur Allergies, Triggers, and Current Therapies |
F12 |
Course 12 — Earth, Cosmos, and Inter-Dimensional Sciences |
Class |
Title |
Schedule |
12.002 |
Stephen Hawking’s Lesser Known “Long Answers to Tiny Questions” |
W12 |
12.009 |
Parsec and Lightyear — the Theoretical Basis for Star Trek and Star Wars |
M1 |
12.025 |
Studies in Diffuse Extragalactic Light and Annihilating Dark Matter |
F1 |
Course 13 — Ocean Engineering and Marine Biology |
Class |
Title |
Schedule |
13.002 |
The Four Seahorse-men: Studying Biodiversity at the Seabed |
M12 |
13.017 |
Hydrodynamic and Stability Considerations in Subsea Structural Design |
F12 |
13.021 |
Low-fat Calamari: Neurons and Unmyelinated Axons, Squid as a Model System |
R2 |
Course 16 — Rocket Science and Aeronautics |
Class |
Title |
Schedule |
16.005 |
Can You Hear Me Now? Satellites Technology For Interstellar Communication |
T1 |
16.011 |
Buzz’s Stellar Moonrock: Eternity and Beyond |
M12 |
16.024 |
Jet Propulsion, Low-Friction Surfaces, and Antigravity Technologies |
R1 |
Course 19 — Roofs, Tunnels, and How to Hack |
Class |
Title |
Schedule |
19.002 |
The Great Dome: Cop Cars, R2D2, Fire trucks, and Catapults |
W1 |
19.009 |
ADV Stealth Acknowledgements — the ADVENT of Vadding: A history |
T2 |
19.021 |
It Holds Tradition Foregoing Profanity — Iterating Homages to Fit Perfectly |
F11 |
Course 19 — Roofs, Tunnels, and How to Hack |
Class |
Title |
Schedule |
19.003 |
Jack of All Trades: Orange Tour Certification Class |
T2 |
19.014 |
Velcro Of Silence: Binding Materials for the Covert Student |
W12 |
19.020 |
Inventorying Hunt Texts For Posterity — It Has Two Fundamental Purposes |
F11 |
Course 20 — Biological Engineering and Applied Mathematical Analysis |
Class |
Title |
Schedule |
20.009 |
The Neverending XOR-y: NIM-bly Winning Impartial Games |
M1 |
20.017 |
When Life Gives You Lemma: A la Carte Theorem Add-ons, to Taste |
R12 |
20.020 |
The Guarana Lysis Blight: Synthesis of Transgenic Agricultural Flora |
F2 |
Course 21 — Humanities: Anthropology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Comparative Media, and the Kitchen Sink |
Class |
Title |
Schedule |
21.003 |
Descartes vs Hume: Dialectic Theories of Skepticism |
R11 |
21.005 |
Exploring the Validity of Invented Languages: From Klingon to Elvish |
T1 |
21.026 |
It’s the End of the World as We Know It: Cross-Cultural Armageddon Theories |
W2 |