Solution - The Contest

by mike staley

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Each of the cartoons at the top depicts contestants in a fictional competition to determine the strongest man in the world. In the grids which follow, look for the name of one of the winners of the real World's Strongest Man competition, Boggle-style. Most of the letters not used in that name will spell the name of an obscure unit of weight or mass, also boggle style. There will be one letter remaining.

GridWinner / WeightConverted weightLeftover letter
1.KAZMIER / SCRUPLE0.45 OZN
2.SAVICKAS / QUINTAL100 KGA
3.KARLSON / ZOLOTNIK0.1505 OZD
4.VIRASTYUK / BLINTZ1.28 OZL
5.REEVES / CULLINGEY0.1857 OZA
6.SIGMARSSON / STONE14 LBW
7.SHAW / PENNYWEIGHT0.054 OZE
8.PFISTER / QUINCUNX4.8 OZE
9.PUDZIANOWSKI / TOD28 LBS
10.VANDERPARRE / SLUG32.174 LBN
11.TAYLOR / HECTOGRAM3.52 OZR


Ordering the leftover letters from heaviest to lightest (2, 10, 9, 6, 8, 11, 4, 5, 3, 7, 1) yields ANSWER LADEN.