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Puzzle Potluck 4

Solution – Jolly Redd's Treasure Trawler → Able Sisters
ANSWER – RAYON
by Curtis Liu

Part 1 (Music Collection)

Each of the 11 songs are popular covers of songs.

SongCover ArtistOriginal Artist
All Along the WatchtowerThe Jimi Hendrix ExperienceBob Dylan
American WomanLenny KravitzThe Guess Who
Girls Just Want To Have FunCyndi LauperRobert Hazard
HallelujahJeff BuckleyLeonard Cohen
Hound DogElvis PresleyBig Mama Thornton
I Fought The LawThe ClashThe Crickets
I Want CandyBow Wow WowThe Strangeloves
I Will Always Love YouWhitney HoustonDolly Parton
It's My LifeNo DoubtTalk Talk
RespectAretha FranklinOtis Redding
SupermanR. E. M.The Clique

There are 22 answers with functioning input boxes below, so you should fill in the boxes with the original and cover artists, matching enumerations and noticing that the answers are in alphabetical order.

Part 2 (Cross-Stitched Garments)

At the start, the puzzle appears to just have two lists of six fibers each, and nothing else. Sable's list contains natural fibers, and Mabel's list contains synthetic fibers. Sometime later, the puzzle will appear to have changed, with a seemingly random word search appearing.

The flavortext makes reference to "imported materials", and the Music Collection flavortext makes reference to "exports". In addition, both flavortexts mention "original". These clue the fact that this puzzle is connected to Music Collection. Each input box in Music Collection is connected to two or more cells of the word search grid. Some input boxes connect to the same cells as other input boxes.

The flavortext then instructs you to "examine each sister's imported materials separately", which means you should only input the original song artists in Music Collection to obtain one word search grid, and only input the cover artists in Music Collection to obtain a second word search grid. It's important to clear everything before re-inputting each set of artists because deleting a character in music collection overwrites the connected cells with an empty space.

The resulting word search grids are as follows:

Originals
B
D
L
Q
D
O
A
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B
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G
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B
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D
N
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N
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A
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Covers
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Overlaying the word searches and taking the letters where the found fiber words overlap, starting with the natural fibers, you get the phrase "Viscose fiber". This clues the answer RAYON.

Author's Notes

  • When we decided on the Among Us theme and having two part puzzles, I really liked the concept of being able to sabotage a team member solving a puzzle. This led to the idea of having connected grids, and making the puzzle involve discovering how a grid on one page affected a grid on another page.
  • An early version of this idea involved having the solver determine the connections of cells from the first grid to the second, and then entering the letters in a specific order so that a sensible message would appear. This quickly proved to be very tedious and not very fun.
  • I had also recently solved a puzzle where I wanted the mechanic to be about recognizing song covers (but alas was not). This led to the idea that you could generate two different grids with cover songs and original songs, and not have to worry about how the cells were specifically connected.
  • Many teams had trouble with this puzzle because they filled out Music Collection first, and attributed the blank Cross-Stitched Garments grid at the beginning to our server issues. I had hoped that having usable input boxes and a "Clear All" button would be suspicious enough for teams to speculate on the interaction, but in retrospect, I probably should have been more explicit in cluing to look elsewhere after completing the inputs to Music Collection.
  • Best Wrong Answers:
    Wrong AnswerSubmitted by:
    FIBERVOICES
    Ghostbloods, Jeff's Jaboticabas
    ALUMINOBOROSILICATENarwhals
    HOORAYYuki

Stats

  • 344 solves
  • 431 incorrect guesses
  • Most common incorrect guess: VISCOSEFIBER (guessed 149 times)
  • First solve: Mystik Spiral in 2 hours, 2 minutes, and 49 seconds

Puzzle Potluck 4