For each color of candy heart, every heart in the picture has one of two letter labels, a single letter and a bigram. These letters can be inserted between the words of two answers to form the names of a fictional couple.
CLEAN[de]ROOM | PLYMOUTH[e]ROCK |
FILM[ar]GEEK | GREENWICH[o]MERIDIAN |
FRANCIS[im]BACON | COMMON[a]LAW |
HAMBURGER[ac]HELPER | EERO[s]SAARINEN |
NEW[il]LOWS | RAT[a]RACE |
SNOW[al]LEOPARD | WIDE[v]EYED |
Every candy heart occurs at least once in the ring of hearts around the pile. For each heart, solvers should take the answer that heart was inserted into, and index into it by the number of occurrences of that heart in the pile. The beginning and direction of the answer are intentionally withheld; reading from the upper-left AC and proceeding clockwise reveals the answer BASED ON DELECTABILITY.
Heart | Count | Answer | Letter |
---|---|---|---|
AC | 4 | HAMBURGER HELPER | B |
DE | 4 | CLEAN ROOM | A |
S | 5 | EERO SAARINEN | S |
AR | 6 | FILM GEEK | E |
AL | 11 | SNOW LEOPARD | D |
E | 5 | PLYMOUTH ROCK | O |
A | 6 | COMMON LAW | N |
AL | 11 | SNOW LEOPARD | D |
AR | 6 | FILM GEEK | E |
IL | 4 | NEW LOWS | L |
AR | 6 | FILM GEEK | E |
IM | 5 | FRANCIS BACON | C |
A | 3 | RAT RACE | T |
DE | 4 | CLEAN ROOM | A |
AC | 4 | HAMBURGER HELPER | B |
O | 7 | GREENWICH MERIDIAN | I |
IL | 4 | NEW LOWS | L |
O | 7 | GREENWICH MERIDIAN | I |
A | 3 | RAT RACE | T |
V | 6 | WIDE EYED | Y |