Once you have explored enough to develop a new upgrade for your submarine, call it in.
At every stage you will produce a plausible puzzle answer word or phrase.
- Alphabetize your answers.
- Change the first letter of one entry to M.
- Change a cartoon character to the NCAA school that has a sports team exactly named as the color of that character's clothing.
- Replace the US Navy Vessel with the first and namesake of its class.
- One entry is associated with ancient cultural sites in a Mediterranean country. Replace it with the present day name of that country.
- Find an entry containing a number, and another entry that's a member of an ordered list. Switch their numbers.
- Take the first letter of the entry prominently featured in the Book of Exodus.
- Your list contains at least one double letter. Take the last one.
- One entry is a colored solid. Replace it with that color.
- Replace the last letter of an entry to form a word that describes Catwoman. Take the new letter.
- Replace a country with the longest river running through it. Then switch that entry and the entry that directly precedes it.
- Replace the entry with the lowest Scrabble score with its alphabetically first Scrabble legal anagram.
- Insert one string of letters into the middle of an entry to make a country. Take the first letter of the string you inserted.
- Replace the fifth entry with the longest substring that is a common word.
- One entry could have a word added to form the title of a popular rock movie. Replace it with the first name of the lead vocalist of the title song.
- Replace a one-word entry with a homophone, then take the fifth letter of the new word, wrapping if necessary.
- Remove the last 1/3 of an entry to get a word found in the dictionary.
- The entry that currently is second to last alphabetically could have a bigram changed to make something musical. Replace it with a new letter followed by the 5th, 4th, and 2nd letters of that entry.
- Shift the first consonant of an entry forward ten letters.
- Replace a multi-part name of a person with their first name.
- Replace one letter of an entry and anagram to produce something Pablo Picasso does. Take the letter you replaced.
- Replace a television show that aired new episodes this century with the network it debuted on.
- One entry has a consonant repeated 3 times, and its first 4 letters spell a common word. Replace it with the nth most popular male baby name in the US in 1981, where n is the length of that entry.
- Replace one letter in an entry to produce a tropical national capital. Take the new letter.
- Shift the first two letters of an entry forward one, then replace the rest with vowels to make a word of the same length.
- Delete an E to leave the last name of an American artist whose most famous works involve the use of balloons. Replace the entry with his or her legal first name.
- Replace one letter to turn an entry into a word you can play on a piano. Take the new letter.
- Replace a country with its capital city.
- The third entry in your list is a Hall of Famer. Replace it with the leading Hall of Fame vote getter in the year he made his Major League debut. Shift the first letter backward two places.
- One entry could have two letters prepended and its last letter changed, to form a Greek word that might malign a tragic hero. Take the last letter of that entry.
- Delete the first letter of one entry.
- One entry is the first name of a person that won an unshared Nobel Prize in Economics and holds a PhD from MIT. Replace it with the city that contains the school he or she received a degree from most recently, other than MIT.
- Replace the third entry with a new entry that associates with it in a phrase using "and".
- Replace or delete a letter from an entry to make the longest river you can.
- Find the first entry chain in your list that you haven't extracted anything from yet. Take all cardinal directions that don't appear in the word.
- One of your entries appears in the title of a 1968 song. Replace it with the last name of the previous person referenced in that title.
- Take the second letter of the entry containing the last palindromic trigram in your list.
- Replace a major military victory for the British over the French with the TLD suffix of the country in which that site is currently located.
- Replace a playing card with the last word of the last corresponding puzzle title in last year's Hunt. Take the first letter of that word.
- Shift the middle letter of an entry, rounded left if necessary, backward four places.
- Bombard one of your entries with two alpha particles. Take the chemical symbol of the result.
- Append one of the ten most common English words to produce something found on a menu.
- Take the first letter of the entry whose portrait appears closest to you.
- Take the last letter alphabetically of the entry that currently is first alphabetically.
- It's time for dinner! An area in Boston has many restaurants serving one of your entries. Take the second letter of the far-left color on the flag of the country most associated with that area.
