META- A Whole Year to Solve

Doc's Memo

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Doc Gibbons

Look, Avil... Sorry, Megagold. I can see twelve different encodings. This must give us the twelve inputs we need to unlock the final key.

Mega Gold

Ah. I think these trigrams belong together. Those look like flags. Is this magic? Look what happens when I touch this symbol.

Yes, I suspect some of these have more than one distinct layer of meaning. Some related and some nothing. Twelve encodings, twelve inputs. But what unifies them for that final step? Oh, it could take us a year to figure this out. We have no time to waste then.

Puzzles	Name	Solution
1	Music Scales	ADJUNCT
2	Button Semaphore	APE LIFEBOATS
3	Invisible Presse	AUGMENTS
4	Animal Sounds	DOCTOR DOLITTLE
5	Dashed Borders	HOUSE PARTY
6	Mountain Maps	JULIAN ALPS
7	Double Flags	MAYFLOWER
8	Canadian Trigrams	NOVA SCOTIANS
9	Number Glyphs	QUESTION MARK
10	Korean Hangul	SSAMJANG
11	Circuit Tracing	TOOL APRON
12	Word Connections	UNDECLARED AGENDA

As Doc had mentioned this could take a year to figure out, each of these 12 answers contains a hidden month abbreviation. Ex. ADJUNCT -> AD[JUN]CT

Puzzles	Solution
1	AD[JUN]CT
2	APE LI[FEB]OATS
3	[AUG]MENTS
4	D[OCT]OR DOLITTLE
5	HOU[SE P]ARTY
6	[JUL]IAN ALPS
7	[MAY]FLOWER
8	[NOV]A SCOTIANS
9	QUESTION [MAR]K
10	SSAM[JAN]G
11	TOOL [APR]ON
12	UN[DEC]LARED AGENDA

These can be arranged by year order starting with January

Order	Solution
1	SSAMJANG
2	APE LIFEBOATS
3	QUESTION MARK
4	TOOL APRON
5	MAYFLOWER
6	ADJUNCT
7	JULIAN ALPS
8	AUGMENTS
9	HOUSE PARTY
10	DOCTOR DOLITTLE
11	NOVA SCOTIANS
12	UNDECLARED AGENDA

Reading the Nth letter of each answer based on the month (ie, take the 4th letter of TOOL APRON that contain APR to get L) reveals the final answer of SPELL CASTING