CISRA Puzzle Competition 2012 - Solutions
2B. Joe Nobody
The events in Joe Nobody are all recognisable as things which happened to other fictional characters. All of them are from movies, although many of the stories are better known in other formats. The theme of the puzzle is that like the puzzle itself, the names of the movies are all the same as the names of the main characters. The characters change at each full stop. The list of characters/movies described, in order, is:
- Lassie
- Annie
- Wall-E
- Rocky
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- Ned
- Carrie
- Emma
- Othello
- Forrest Gump
Reading the first letters of each character/movie yields the message "LAWRENCEOF". Lawrence of Arabia is another movie mostly named after the main character, suggesting the solution ARABIA (or LAWRENCEOFARABIA).