Reading the letters in the provided grid diagonally, from the bottom-right to the upper-left, spells out the message PUT ANSWERS LIKE SO BY RELEASE. Since the grid is a 5×5, and each meta has 5 feeder answers, every feeder answer for this puzzle must be 5 letters long.
CELLO (The Hustlers) | CHESS (Pantry) | MARIO (Catastrophic Cartography) | RAILS (The Ocean Knocked Back) | DWARF (Pixel Art) |
O | L | W | R | F |
S | I | I | D | A |
C | S | R | A | S |
L | O | E | A | R |
C | E | L | H | M |
Arranging the answers as described forms a new grid.
Each letter describes a sound from the listening portion of Encryption Bingo. The last names also provide clues to the sounds. The first names can be sorted alphabetically to give an ordering. Indexing into the new grid using the positions of the sounds in Encrption Bingo's table spells the solution.
Person | Sound | Corresponding location in grid | Letter |
---|---|---|---|
Amelia Buscemi | Fire truck | E1 | F |
Brian Papers | Scissors | C5 | L |
Cora Frost | Walking on snow | D4 | A |
Daniel Eastman | Camera | C1 | W |
Emily Spielberg | Jaws theme | B1 | L |
Fred Felis | Cat purring | B5 | E |
Georgie Pellett | MTA door warning | B3 | S |
Hector Pittrich | Timpani | E3 | S |
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