Post by Masahiro Sakurai on Feb 10, 2022 17:59:49 GMT 10
Kirby Super Star's Great Cave Offensive sees Kirby trapped in a labyrinthine cave system. His goal is to escape the cave and collect a few treasures along the way. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U adapts this into a truly colossal, cavernous stage that is unlike any other in the game. Your task will be to escape the depths of the cave as quickly as possible in a word association challenge.
When you begin the challenge, you'll be given a 12-by-6 grid of words, representing the cave. Your job is to find a continuous path through the cave that moves from word to word either up, down, left or right, but never diagonally. This path will lead from one of the words on the bottom to one of the words on the top, but you won't be informed specifically which. To identify the path, you'll be given a list of ten clue words. These clue words each somehow relate to three consecutive words that are along the path, though not necessarily in a straight line. These clues will be ordered from the start at the bottom to the finish at the top, and the three words for all ten clues stitched together in order will form the 30-word path.
"Relates to" in this context is broad. It could be a word with a similar meaning, an attribute of the clue, or even a word that forms a phrase, idiom or title with the clue. It is up to you to figure out these connections. We've made sure that the challenge only has one solution, but there will be red herrings there to trip you up, so bear both of these facts in mind when solving.
An example puzzle is below:
Clues:
Game
Animal
Animal
The correct path would be:
Should you get stuck or unsure of the way to proceed, you can check part of the path is correct. This is done by posting a clue word followed by the three words, in path order, all caps and no spaces. A word filter will replace what you posted with a verification message if correct. To demonstrate, if you wanted to check the words for Animal in the example, you'd post ANIMALINSTINCTBURROWPLANET. There is no penalty for using this system, only the time lost in doing so. If you like, you can also use it to check your final path after submitting your answer.
Once you think you've found the correct path, you can upload an image which draws your path through the cave. Take care to stay within the lines and work neatly; if your submission's intended path isn't clear, we simply won't accept it. We don't want to make any difficult judgement calls on this, so be careful. You may change your solution after submitting one if you find a mistake.
The fastest time(s) will survive The Ring and, if applicable, select a team to return to. The loser will be eliminated from the game. In the unlikely event of multiple incorrect answers, we'll break the tie by calculating the number of correctly identified words minus the number of incorrect words; highest number survives. Note that you will be responsible for verifying the correctness of your solution. For the sake of fairness, the hosts will not be able to do this for you, so be sure to triple check that you have completed the challenge once you've finished.