Analogy Farm (Solution)
by Robyn Speer, Adam Hesterberg, and Alan Deckelbaum; additional code by Anthony Lu and John Stumpo
This is a Funny Farm-style game, where parallelograms made of two black lines and two red lines are SAT-style analogies.
For example, you start with:
sun : jupiter :: ? : charon
When you fill in the answer "pluto" and hit enter, the server confirms it. It also fills in "pluto" in another blank that's connected by a blue line, representing equality.
When you fill in a blank on one end of a gray dotted line, it will fill in the unrelated blank on the other end, making more of the graph solvable.
Here are the analogies in the upper left, for example:
| mit : engineers :: harvard : crimson | = names of sports teams |
| mit : tech :: harvard : crimson | = names of newspapers |
| harvard : crimson :: mit : cardinal/gray | = school colors |
| spare : strike :: slash : x | = bowling symbols |
| cardinal : card :: technical : tech | = informal four-letter abbreviations |
Other analogies (skipping over some obvious ones):
| ecstasy : x :: head rat : r :: middle eastern : t | = the single letter this would be in a cryptic clue |
| time : t :: displacement : x | = standard variable name for this axis |
| blood : iron :: speeches : majority decisions | = a quote by Bismarck |
| sega : saturn :: atari : jaguar | = unsuccessful fifth-generation consoles |
| atari : go :: check : chess | = name of a threatening position in a game |
| go : china :: chess : india | = country of origin |
| chinese : master wok :: middle eastern : sepal | = "ethnic" fast-food restaurants at the CambridgeSide Galleria |
| sonic : coins :: leaps : sepal | = the result of applying a 12345 -> 52431 permutation |
| sonic boom : sound :: cherenkov radiation : light | = X happens when things move faster than the local speed of Y |
| saturn : sky :: honda : civic | = make, model of cars |
| guns/roses : axl :: black/sabbath : ozzy | = lead singer |
| black : sabbath :: technical : ecstasy :: chinese : democracy :: guns : roses | = These are highly-anticipated, long-delayed, and ultimately disappointing albums by the named bands. |
| bono : edge :: axl : slash | = lead singer vs. guitarist |
| hack : crack :: white hat : black hat | = verbs techies wish you would use when distinguishing non-malicious from malicious hacking |
| titanium : chromium :: chromium : iron | = add two protons |
| chrome : chromium :: red hat : fedora | = related commercial and open-source projects |
| red hat : head rat :: al gore : galore | = spoonerisms |
| al gore : algorithm :: log : logarithm | = what it sounds like when you add 'rhythm' |
| logarithm : corollary :: logarhythms : chorallaries | = MIT a cappella groups with punny mathy names |
| chorallaries : hot air balloon :: logarithms : black balloon | = tracks named with 'balloon' that the respective groups have gotten on BOCA |
| pitch : black :: blood : red :: sky : blue | = descriptive color names |
| sun : jupiter :: pluto : charon :: saturn : titan | = largest orbiting object |
| hack : hijack :: dorm : deform :: spider : stupider | = change the first letter to three consecutive letters |
| college : dorm :: jail : cell | = where you live |
| college : knowledge :: jupiter :: stupider | = where girls and boys go and why, according to a schoolyard rhyme |
| knowledge : power :: time : money | = adages connected by "is" |
| time : second :: power : watt :: distance : meter | = metric units |
| distance : speed :: energy : power | = divide by time |
| distance : speed :: alone : need | = "Going the Distance" lyrics |
| distance : displacement :: speed : velocity | = scalar : vector |
| first : velocity :: second : acceleration :: third : jerk ... | = names of derivatives of displacement, including the whimsical ones |
| soda : pop :: rotary : roundabout | = what things are called in New England vs. much of the Midwest |
| ace : acid :: arachne : arachnid | = change -e to -id |
| light : might :: lite : mite | = increment first letter |
| light : lite :: might : mite | = respell -ight as -ite |
| sage : mint :: spider : arachnid | = biological classification |
| speed : pace :: time : frequency | = reciprocal quantities |
| frequency : linear :: pitch : log | = scale these musical quantities are measured on |
| pace : peace :: fine : end | = translate from Italian to English |
| line : linear :: end : final | = adjective form |
An image of the completed puzzle can be found here.
As you solve the puzzle, the nodes MIT, MITE, and FINAL are highlighted. Complete the analogy by calling in FINALE.