CISRA Puzzle Competition 2011 - Solutions
1D. Creature Feature
Each question is a riddle whose answer is a pun on the name of an animal. The answers to the questions (in question order) are:
- Tie a Yellow Gibbon Round the Ole Oak Tree
- A garbage duck
- Mortal Wombat
- War and Geese
- A hot air baboon
- Iguanas in Pyjamas
- Seal or No Seal
- The Dalmation Army
- Harry Otter
- The Cow Jones Index
- Parrot juice
- The periodic table of the elephants
- Two minute poodles
- Swan with the Wind
- Ghost Spiders in the Sky
- Horse code
- Vin Weasel
- The Pony Awards
The word lengths of each answer matches one of the list of parenthesised numbers on the right hand side of the diagram, but not in the same order as the questions. If a straight line is drawn between each question and the word lengths of its answer, each line crosses one or more red dots.
Following the red dotted line, and indexing the joke answer by the number beside each red dot in order, a hidden message is spelt out: "Which Star Wars actor has a hump?"
Following the creature pun pattern established by all of the initial riddle answers, the answer to this additional joke question and the solution to this puzzle is MARK CAMEL, a pun on Mark Hamill, who famously played Luke Skywalker in Star Wars.
Another amusing possiblity would have been "Camel L. Jackson", but alas we didn't think of that before releasing the puzzle.