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Wizard's Hollow

Monty Minotaur's Magical Menagerie

by Philip Dasler
Answer: LAUGHINGSTOCK

Find the listed creatures in the grid. If you highlight them, they form the walls of a maze.

Help Monty reach the club by tracing a path through the maze!

The "flavor text" suggested "skipping" to the club. If you read the path's letters, skipping every other letter, you get a list of mythical beings: GRYPHON, HARPY, MINOTAUR, MERMAID, CENTAUR, COCKATRICE, UNICORN, HIPPOGRIFF, USHI-ONI, SATYR, PEGASUS, SPHINX, QUETZALCOATL. (If you instead read the "other" every other letters, you're warned off by the text YOUR OTHER LEFT, WHY ARE YOU STILL GOING, THIS IS WRONG, YOU'LL FIND ONLY GARBAGE IF YOU KEEP GOING ON, GARBAGE SEE I TOLD YOU SO.)

Each of these mythical beings is the answer to a question "What do you get if you cross an x and a y?" For example, a MINOTAUR is what you get if you cross a GUY and a BULL.

When you found the listed creatures in the maze, some crossed each other. For each path-mystical-creature, their "components" cross. Find the intersection-letters and list them in the order you encountered the mythical creatures on the path.

Creature Part 1 Part 2 Letter
Gryphon Lion Eagle L
Harpy Woman Raven A
Minotaur Guy Bull U
Mermaid Goldfish Girl G
Centaur Human Horse H
Cockatrice Chicken Lizard I
Unicorn Stallion Narwhal N
Hippogriff Thoroughbred Seagull G
Ushi-Oni Bison Spider S
Satyr Mister Goat T
Pegasus Colt Goose O
Sphinx Chica Bigcat C
Quetzalcoatl Kestrel Snake K

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S M A C A Q U E R E T S I M H U M P B A C K W H A L E H S I F D L O G S T A R N O S E D M O L E S
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T A S N I G I B U
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O P A N G O L I N O L K R A V D R A A H R L C O L A F F U B R M I T M U S S O P M
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A T O H N E H R A L G E A O A Y C L O R I A
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T H A L L I R O G R L M K N U M P I H C R T H E I C T O L E C O O D G C H E E T A H T
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E O E E I M K R W O V R G A O S N U G S E G N E X S Q E O
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F P U N G A B P B I M Y B A L L A W A R U E O G K F O X S E E W E R I C H A R E U P
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F R C G M F R N O I C S O I C S K W A U T W N A A A S R P B H A H E O
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A Y R N O I L A Y E G U R D S T A L L I O N N E E B E Y B I G C A T F L O W L I Z A R D E P
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R U O E L T G Y S H O E L I L L I P O R G I C O Z T T I P
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I R C P A N D A M L L U B E U N I K E S T R E L C I Y L F G Y H I M P A L A K A K A P E I
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G O O W G T K B A A F V O P C E L R B H
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Y G D M A G P I E I Z E B R A A E E N E K I P R O E R D T G O H T R A W N L O E L O
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H I R T A O Y N H T I N N T G Y X S E M I D O R E A E S K I U K L D T A S D
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O L A N I F F U P R E P E E H S Y N N U B T A R N T N A M O W R A Y N I E C S R T O
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N E E C A O O D N A A V O D E Y O O A U L
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E T U G O O S E H C P N O O C C A R T Y I N I G E R U M E L O K C A I M A N P
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Y N Y N L G E L O O L D N I N R Y I R H
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B A R W T D E E R D C J A G U A R L A C L H A L C A M E L E I D K C U D A I
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A H O A L C F U D O O M L D F B N
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D P M F W A L R U S I A L D E R B H G U O R O H T I S A F E R R E T I H B O A R C B N
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G E U E S R T M I A L R E A N A P I S E G O I A
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E L S Q U I R R E L Y A L Y N X E K U D U T P T D R A P O E L N O S I B U I W T M
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R E S A L P Y O G G A R R I B F A F G P U
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H T O M M A M Y L L O O W C R A B E A T E R S E A L B R E T S N O M A L I G M A R M O T E S R O H