Incredible Edibles (solution)
by Emily Morgan; additional photography by Peter Morgan, Ginny Popper, Danielle Sucher, and David Turner; chocolate by Alex Calhoun and Ashley Destra Freeman
The puzzle is a series of pictures. Each picture is a number made out of food. The foods are the ingredients (minus chocolate) of chocolate bars from Vosges. Index into the name of the chocolate bar by the depicted number. It will spell out CALL TO ASK FOR DESSERT. When solvers do, they are given a piece of chocolate with the real answer, LIQUEURS, printed on it.
Order | Name | Ingredients | Letter | Index of letter |
1 | Oaxaca | Oaxacan guajillo + pasilla chillies + 75% Tanzanian chocolate | C | 5 |
2 | Amalfi Exotic Candy Bar | lemon zest + pink peppercorns + 36% cocoa butter white chocolate | A | 1 |
3 | Woolloomooloo | roasted & salted macadamia nuts + Indonesian coconut + hemp seeds + deep milk chocolate, 41% cacao | L | 4 |
4 | Black Pearl | Ginger + wasabi + black sesame seeds + 55% dark chocolate | L | 2 |
5 | Organic Peanut Butter Bonbon Bar | Organic peanut butter fills a 45% deep milk chocolate bar + pink Himalayan salt + Malden sea salt | T | 13 |
6 | Goji | Tibetan goji berries + pink Himalayan salt + 45% deep milk chocolate | O | 2 |
7 | Naga | Sweet Indian curry (powder) + coconut (flakes) + 41% deep milk chocolate | A | 2 |
8 | Cherry Rooibos Exotic Candy Bar | African rooibos tea + dried Michigan cherries + milk chocolate | S | 13 |
9 | Mo’s Milk Chocolate Bacon Bar | Hickory smoked bacon + Alderwood smoked salt + deep milk chocolate | K | 7 |
10 | Red Fire | Mexican ancho & chipotle chillies + Ceylon cinnamon dark chocolate | F | 4 |
11 | Bapchi’s Caramel Toffee Exotic Candy Bar | Buttery toffee + walnuts + pecans | O | 16 |
12 | Peppermint Candy Cane Exotic Chocolate Bar | Peppermint (candy cane) + dark chocolate. | R | 6 |
13 | Gingerbread Toffee Exotic Candy Bar | Gingerbread (spiced) toffee | D | 11 |
14 | Blood Orange Caramel Exotic Candy Bar | hibiscus flowers + blood orange caramel + Campari | E | 11 |
15 | Smoke & Stout Caramel Bar | Chocolate Stout Beer, smoked salt, (burnt sugar) caramel, & dark chocolate | S | 1 |
16 | Pink Himalayan Salt Caramel Bar | Pink Himalayan Salt, burnt sugar caramel, & dark chocolate | S | 14 |
17 | Barcelona Exotic Candy Bar | Hickory smoked almonds + Fleur de Sel (grey) sea salt + deep milk chocolate | E | 5 |
18 | Banana Victoria Bar | Dried organic bananas, organic California walnuts, Grenadian nutmeg, & dark chocolate | R | 12 |
19 | Black Salt Caramel Exotic Candy Bar | Black Hawaiian sea salt + soft (burnt sugar) caramel | T | 9 |
About Ambiguity: Some of the chocolate bars have names that differ between the packaging and the website, and one of the ingredients lists matches two different bars. It is easy to decide which name to use based on the final clue phrase.