Edge of your Seat FUN! (solution)
by Emily Morgan
Teams are invited to send a person or two to play Jenga with us. They play with a normal Jenga tower, except that the pieces are colored in 8 colors. The rules of the game are:
Normal Jenga rules
“On your turn, carefully remove a block from anywhere BELOW the highest completed story. Use only one hand! Then stack the block on top of the tower at right angles to the blocks just below it.”
Mystery Hunt additions
- When you successfully remove and replace a piece without knocking the tower over, note the color of the piece on your score sheet.
- After the game, you will receive a “clue word” for each color of piece that you have scored twice in that game. (Each color will correspond to exactly one clue word.)
- You can play as many times as you want.
- If you knock over the tower or voluntarily leave the game, you gain one fewer clue word (of your choice).
- Minor/accidental violations of the Jenga rules will be punished by a stern warning. Major infractions will be punished by forfeiting the game and a substantial time delay before you can play again.
- Trading clue words is not allowed.
The 8 clue words form a puzzle. Each word has a unique non-initial letter such that you can move that letter to the front to get a new word (e.g. ENERVATE → VENERATE). Take those letters in rainbow order (by color of the piece they came from) to spell out the answer, SANDWICH.
- PROUST --> SPROUT (S)
- MAPLE --> AMPLE (A)
- UNCLEAR --> NUCLEAR (N)
- RIDER --> DRIER (D)
- AWNING --> WANING (W)
- COIN --> ICON (I)
- REACTION --> CREATION (C)
- EARTH --> HEART (H)