Sages Style (Solution)

by Gaurav Singh, Ben Kraft, and Josh Alman

The puzzle video consists of clips from many different Gangnam Style parodies. Notably missing is the MIT Gangnam style parody. Each given clue refers uniquely to a part of the MIT video during the time when one of the parodies is playing. They each give a number which can be indexed into the parody names to give the phrase WHAT ARE DRAWN ON THE HAYDEN BOARDS. In the MIT video, there are GRAPHS drawn on the boards outside Hayden library, which is the answer (also clued by the six blanks in the video title).

The parodies, in order, are:

  1. Rewind Youtube Style
  2. NASA Johnson Style
  3. Vegas Style
  4. Mitt Romney Style
  5. Obama Style
  6. Pandaren Style
  7. James Bond Style
  8. Grandad Style
  9. Lifeguard Style
  10. Bogart Style
  11. New York Style
  12. OB/GYNE Style
  13. Klingon Style
  14. Kim Jong Style
  15. Hitler Style
  16. Gotham Style
  17. Eastern Europe Style
  18. Chicago Style
  19. Spartan Style
  20. Ramsay Style
  21. Gandalf Style
  22. Minnesota Style
  23. Minecraft Style
  24. NBC Olympic Style
  25. MiKo Style
  26. Orange Nya Nya Style
  27. Farmer Style
  28. London Style
  29. Sukkos Style

The answers to the clues are:

  1. Number at last digit of school of science conference room number + 4 = 7
  2. Number of animals who wish they had a defibrillator = 2
  3. Number of bases in a short fragment / 140 = 5
  4. Number of blackjacks + 1 = 4
  5. Number of boat that I keep finding tasty + 1 = 3
  6. Number of chairs stolen from the nearby athena cluster - 2 = 7
  7. Number of cheerleaders - 12 = 3
  8. Number of ducks * 4 = 4
  9. Number of frat boys at 460 beacon st = 6
  10. Number of helicopters + 4 = 5
  11. Number of horse nose rings * 3 = 3
  12. Number of lab coats with ties * 2 = 6
  13. Number of lions * 2 = 4
  14. Number of logs / 3 = 6
  15. Number of monitors on the bookshelves = 5
  16. Number of origami hats + 5 = 8
  17. Number of people chasing a panda / 2 = 5
  18. Number of people on a boat that's going (fast) and... - 3 = 4
  19. Number of pokes + 2 = 6
  20. Number of pole dancers / 4 = 3
  21. Number of poses in front of our community = 4
  22. Number of protons in a nucleus of the man on the bottom / 13 = 2
  23. Number of puppets * 2 = 4
  24. Number of quidditch players - 1 = 3
  25. Number of raised pistols = 4
  26. Number of seconds I lie on him = 3
  27. Number of tennis serves / 3 = 6
  28. Number of yellow swim caps * 3 = 6
  29. Number on blue jersey + 4 = 5