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# META- A Whole Year to Solve

**Doc's Memo**

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**Audio Transcript**

**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.*

<table><thead><tr><th width="163" align="center">Puzzles</th><th align="center">Name</th><th align="center">Solution</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="center">1</td><td align="center">Music Scales</td><td align="center">ADJUNCT</td></tr><tr><td align="center">2</td><td align="center">Button Semaphore</td><td align="center">APE LIFEBOATS</td></tr><tr><td align="center">3</td><td align="center">Invisible Presse</td><td align="center">AUGMENTS</td></tr><tr><td align="center">4</td><td align="center">Animal Sounds</td><td align="center">DOCTOR DOLITTLE</td></tr><tr><td align="center">5</td><td align="center">Dashed Borders</td><td align="center">HOUSE PARTY</td></tr><tr><td align="center">6</td><td align="center">Mountain Maps</td><td align="center">JULIAN ALPS</td></tr><tr><td align="center">7</td><td align="center">Double Flags</td><td align="center">MAYFLOWER</td></tr><tr><td align="center">8</td><td align="center">Canadian Trigrams</td><td align="center">NOVA SCOTIANS</td></tr><tr><td align="center">9</td><td align="center">Number Glyphs</td><td align="center">QUESTION MARK</td></tr><tr><td align="center">10</td><td align="center">Korean Hangul</td><td align="center">SSAMJANG</td></tr><tr><td align="center">11</td><td align="center">Circuit Tracing</td><td align="center">TOOL APRON</td></tr><tr><td align="center">12</td><td align="center">Word Connections</td><td align="center">UNDECLARED AGENDA</td></tr></tbody></table>

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

<table><thead><tr><th width="171">Puzzles</th><th>Solution</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1</td><td>AD[JUN]CT</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>APE LI[FEB]OATS</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>[AUG]MENTS</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>D[OCT]OR DOLITTLE</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>HOU[SE P]ARTY</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>[JUL]IAN ALPS</td></tr><tr><td>7</td><td>[MAY]FLOWER</td></tr><tr><td>8</td><td>[NOV]A SCOTIANS</td></tr><tr><td>9</td><td>QUESTION [MAR]K</td></tr><tr><td>10</td><td>SSAM[JAN]G</td></tr><tr><td>11</td><td>TOOL [APR]ON</td></tr><tr><td>12</td><td>UN[DEC]LARED AGENDA</td></tr></tbody></table>

These can be arranged by year order starting with January

<table><thead><tr><th width="128">Order</th><th>Solution</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1</td><td><strong>S</strong>SAMJANG</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>A<strong>P</strong>E LIFEBOATS</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>QU<strong>E</strong>STION MARK</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>TOO<strong>L</strong> APRON</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>MAYF<strong>L</strong>OWER</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>ADJUN<strong>C</strong>T</td></tr><tr><td>7</td><td>JULIAN <strong>A</strong>LPS</td></tr><tr><td>8</td><td>AUGMENT<strong>S</strong></td></tr><tr><td>9</td><td>HOUSE PAR<strong>T</strong>Y</td></tr><tr><td>10</td><td>DOCTOR DOL<strong>I</strong>TTLE</td></tr><tr><td>11</td><td>NOVA SCOTIA<strong>N</strong>S</td></tr><tr><td>12</td><td>UNDECLARED A<strong>G</strong>ENDA</td></tr></tbody></table>

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**