falling into place - mit
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Falling into Place1. The puzzle is presented as a game of Tetris with the following changes:- each block in a tetris piece contains either a letter or a black square- in addition to the standard game controls, the letters within the tetris piece can be rotatedwithout changing the piece’s orientation- a crossword-style clue and a graphical representation of an answer word are shown. the lengthand horizontal orientation of the word is displayed. occasionally, one or more of the letter spaceswill be highlighted.
Correctly spelling the current answer word within the tetris board, bounded by either emptyspace, the board walls, or black squares, will advance to the next clue. Simultaneously, avertical entry with its clue is revealed, but the answer is not given. Completing all the horizontalanswer words will end the game.
The horizontal answer words are given alphabetically by clue. Dying will revert backwards onehorizontal answer word. Completing a tetris will reveal the next letter in the graphicalrepresentation of the answer word to be spelled, starting at the beginning.
After the game ends, the solver must realize the answer words can be used to rebuild acrossword. The answer words and their clues are shown below in final output order, with newestat the top.
Word that follows school or prison
Youngest of the adopted daughters in "Despicable Me"
A G N E S
UNIX directory for system-‐wide config files
Whence "Begin, be bold and venture to be wise"
H O R A C E
Union's graded system for salaries, perhaps
Type of off-‐hand item in Diablo III
O R B
"___ the season..."
Two, in Tijuana
D O S
Something to bid upon parting
TV lawyer Stone
E L I
San ___, game featuring tobacco and coffee
Top worn in warm weather
T E E
Redeemed, as chips
The Who's "Love, Reign ___ Me"
O E R
Publisher of "Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases"
Student of Socrates
P L A T O
Prefix meaning "blood"
Spelling event
B E E
Pre-‐1868 Tokyo
Skewered meat dish with turmeric and peanut sauce
S A T A Y
Phaeophyceae member found in underwater forests
___ Row (winner of the '35 Spring Handicap)
T O P
Online financial company owned by Popular, Inc.
"Relax, take a ___!"
C H I L L P I L L
Olympic gold medalist Kelley of women's soccer
Regular on "The Simpsons" often clad in a leisure suit
S T U
Network with a Times Square marquee facing the Paramount Building
Proustian hero
S W A N N
Multiplexer building block
Process undergone by wine or cheese
A G I N G
Mimicked
Old-‐time ice skater Sonja
H E N I E
Micro __, menu item at Tosci's
National Ski Hall-‐of-‐Famer Tommy
M O E
Mario Bros. item that damages all enemies on the ground when hit
Musical with the number "It Could Only Happen in the Movies"
B A N J O E Y E S
Like 45% of M.I.T. undergraduates in fall of 2012
"Maverick, move! There's a __ on your tail!": "Top Gun"
M I G
___ Lanka
Magistrate of Rome with veto power
C O N S U L
Language spoken in Kazan
Last year's sophs, briefly
J R S
It has Port and Tunnel options
It might compress audio or video
E N C O D E R
"Inception" actress Page and others
Infuse with gas or bubbles
A E R A T E
He's portrayed by Jack Webb on "Dragnet"
Infantry unit with the Optic Flare ability in Starcraft
M E D I C
From ___ Z
Hutch's partner
S T A R S K Y
Fishing line woe
Hellenic I's
I O T A S
European ___ (relatives of minks and stoats)
He played Jayne on "Firefly"
A D A M
Ernesto Guevara, familiarly
He debuted in "Porky's Duck Hunt," 1937
D A F F Y
Equivalent of 100 nanojoules
Genetic component of the Hardy-‐Weinberg principle
A L L E L E
___ Eisley, a "wretched hive of scum and villainy"
Foot, in Latin
P E S
Depend (on)
Executive branch's chief, for short
P O T U S
Dance contests requiring a pole
Exclamation of discovery
A H A
Course ___ (chemical engineering)
Enthusiastic
E A G E R
Captures the curiosity of
Ashley's rival in "Gone with the Wind"
R H E T T
Captain's announcement, for short
Animated character married to Manjula
A P U
"___ became the great embarkation point": "Casablanca"
Ambulance personnel, for short
E M T S
2013 People's Choice Awards nominee for Favorite Music Video
1970's inventions that eventually replaced cassette tapes
C D S
2. Determining the vertical answers and reassembling the crossword using the highlightedsquares as a guide yields the result below. Each of the standard 7 tetris pieces appearstwice as black square groups. The entries from tetris must be placed in the grid accordingto their original orientation, i.e. horizontally or vertically. The highlighted letters (top right,middle, and bottom left) spell PRIME CLUE HEADS.
3. PRIME CLUE HEADS instructs the solver to look at the clues with prime numbers andread the first letters. The numbers to the clues can be obtained with standard crosswordsquare numbering, which leads to this grid:
The first letters of the clues, when read in the standard crossword order (across clues, thendown clues), spell LETTERS THAT TOUCH 2 PIECES. (This order is used in the list ofclues that follow.)
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