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Spaceopolis


In Space, No One Can Hear You Sing

by Rich Bragg, Jesse Morris, Philip Dasler
Answer: LOWER THE VEIL

  1. Singers from each team are asked to choose from a list of songs and then asked to sing a 1-2 minute clip of that song via karaoke. When they start to sing, their face changes to an animal or character using the magic of augmented reality. At the end of each performance, two judge scores are given. Neither the mask overlay nor the scores can be seen by the performer, they can only be seen by the rest of the team watching via a live YouTube feed.
  2. The key insight here is that the animal masks in the puzzle correspond to the animal masks and costumes from the first season of the TV show "The Masked Singer", and every song on the list is a song that was performed in that season of the show.
  3. The next insight is that the animals that show up as AR masks DO NOT correspond to the animals of the celebrities that performed those same songs in the show. Instead, a given AR mask always sings the songs of exactly one of the show's other celebrities (and always gets the same judge scores, regardless of song), so it is possible to make a chain of masks from AR mask to celebrity singer that forms one continuous loop.
  4. Finally, index using the two judge scores into the celebrity names corresponding to each mask to get two letters for each. Read the letters pairs in the order of the chain created from the previous step, starting with the Hippo and ending with the Peacock, which can be inferred based on making a coherent message, but also mentioned on the live show by the show's host.
  5. The resulting message is BALDWIN SIANO ROCK BAND, which is a clue to the final answer of LOWER THE VEIL.

Details

All Songs

SongMask (Puzzle)Mask (Show)
"(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" by Aretha FranklinHippoBee
"A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got)" by FergieBeeLion
"All of Me" by John LegendDeerPeacock
"American Woman" by Lenny KravitzAlienMonster
"Bad Romance" by Lady GagaUnicornRaven
"Brave" by Sara BareillesUnicornRaven
"California Dreamin'" by Sia BeeLion
"Can't Feel My Face" by The WeekndDeerPeacock
"Chandelier" by SiaHippoBee
"Counting Stars" by OneRepublicDeerPeacock
"Diamond Heart" by Lady GagaBeeLion
"Don't Stop Me Now" by QueenAlienMonster
"Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" by Stevie WonderBeeLion
"Ex's & Oh's" by Elle KingLionAlien
"Feel It Still” by Portugal. The ManLionAlien
"Feeling Good" by Nina SimoneBeeLion
"Fight Song" by Rachel PlattenRabbitUnicorn
"Get Your Shine On" by Florida Georgia LineRavenDeer
"Happy" by Pharrell WilliamsLionAlien
"I Can't Make You Love Me" by Bonnie RaittHippoBee
"I Don't Want to Be" by Gavin DegrawAlienMonster
"I Love It" by Icona Pop ft. Charli XCXRabbitUnicorn
"I Love Rock 'n' Roll" by Joan Jett & the BlackheartsAlienMonster
"Isn't She Lovely" by Stevie WonderMonsterRabbit
"Let's Go" by Calvin Harris ft. Ne-YoDeerPeacock
"Livin' la Vida Loca" by Ricky MartinMonsterRabbit
"Locked Out of Heaven" by Bruno MarsHippoBee
"Lovefool" by The CardigansLionAlien
"My Girl" by The TemptationsMonsterRabbit
"My Prerogative" by Bobby BrownPeacockHippo
"Oops!... I Did It Again" by Britney SpearsRabbitUnicorn
"Poison" by Bell Biv DeVoeMonsterRabbit
"Rainbow” by KeshaUnicornRaven
"Shake a Tail Feather" by The Five Du-TonesDeerPeacock
"Stay With Me" by Sam SmithAlienMonster
"The Greatest Show" by Hugh JackmanDeerPeacock
"This Is How We Do It" by Montell JordanAlienMonster
"Thunder" by Imagine DragonsRavenDeer
"Wake Me Up" by Avicii ft. Aloe BlaccMonsterRabbit
"What's Love Got to Do with It" by Tina TurnerHippoBee
"Wrecking Ball" by Miley CyrusHippoBee

Output Stream

Mask (Puzzle)CelebrityJudge #1 ScoreJudge #2 ScoreIndex into CelebritySings Songs by Mask (Show)
HippoAntonio Brown81BABee
BeeGladys Knight24LDLion
LionRumer Willis67WIAlien
AlienLa Toya Jackson1311NSMonster
MonsterT-Pain43IARabbit
RabbitJoey Fatone92NOUnicorn
UnicornTori Spelling32RORaven
RavenRicki Lake34CKDeer
DeerTerry Bradshaw68BAPeacock
PeacockDonny Osmond41NDHippo

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to Debbie Goldstein for creating the final versions of all the karaoke clips, and to Kiki Bragg for sing-testing numerous early versions of this puzzle.