PUZMAT ANSWERS AND HINTS
Hints in orange, Answers below in white
HINTS
Blue Section
Start
It's a mammal.
Clue 1
Think security (its not the keys!).
Clue 2
Keys for the lock.
Clue 3
Use the centre part of the key ring, the teeth of the key & the straight and curved lines to identify a single letter.
Clue 4
The coded message starts with 'go to the _ _ _'
Clue 5
It begins with the letter C.
Clue 6
Walk around in a anti-clockwise direction from this clue.
Clue 7
Walk around the mat 2 and 7/8th times.
Green Section
Start
It's a fruit.
Clue 1
You will find this in a kitchen.
Clue 2
Look at the second letters.
Clue 3
This object contains food.
Clue 4
It's not a square.
Clue 5
Check how many times the object fits in this shape.
CLUE 6
It's a single digit number displayed as a number.
Yellow Section
Start
It's made of rubber.
Clue 1
The top left and bottom right squares stay the same.
Clue 2
Imagine the pattern on a mobile phone keypad so each of the squares is filled by a number, these numbers and the arrow indicate the position of the pattern. You can then fill in the empty space and the decimal point indicates the letter.
Clue 3
Universal Serial Bus is USB, you are looking for the male part not female.
Clue 4
Look carefully at the pattern on the side and compare it to the side of a real USB. If you don't have one then use a picture from the internet.
Clue 5
The female part.
CLUE 6
Follow each wire carefully.
CLUE 7
Choose between the African countries of Mali or Niger by looking at their capitals on the River Niger.
CLUE 8
Draw a line back via the only landmark located in Asia.
Orange Section
Start
It's a fruit.
Clue 1
The first one is 'book worm'.
Clue 2
The band is Coldplay.
Clue 3
Planets.
Clue 4
The correct object links with frame.
Clue 5
Count the edges and corners of a door in 3D not 2D.
Clue 6
Fold the paper around a door - the folds will create a cross.
Red Section
Start
It's a British cultural icon.
Clue 1 (North Section)
It's a room within your house.
Stage 1 (South Section)
Use a mirror.
Stage 2 (South Section)
Look at the ingredients of an item used for oral health.
Stage 3 (South Section)
This item is found near the toilet.
Clue 2 (North Section)
This is a table used in science.
Clue 3 (North Section)
The periodic numbers of the elements Sodium and Fluoride.
Clue 4 (North Section)
Na & F.
Pink Section
Start
It's a farmyard animal.
Order of the clues
Go to an animal with horns and then an animal who is 'cheeky'.
Cipher
The cipher should look like this.
PURPLE SECTION
OBJECTS
A.
Purple instructions, folded in half length ways and width ways.
B.
Key.
C.
Toilet roll.
D.
Food tin.
COLOUR ANSWERS
BLUE
7.
GREEN
6.
ORANGE
24.
RED
20.
YELLOW
17.
NOTES
1.
Kitchen.
2.
Cupboard.
ANSWERS
Blue Section
Start
The blue whale.
Clue 1
Security, go to the clue by the icon of a lock.
Clue 2
Count the number of keys on the mat = 7.
Clue 3
Position the key so its teeth align with the curved and straight lines. This will reveal a letter within the centre hole. This will spell out the words GO TO THE NUT. How to get the first letter G is shown here.
Clue 4
Go to the icon of a nut (as in nut and bolt).
Clue 5
Carpet.
Clue 6
Walk around in an anti-clockwise direction from this clue 2 and 7/8th times. You will arrive at the X in the north west corner (top left).
Clue 7
The X in the north west corner (top left).
Green Section
Start
The avocado.
Clue 1
Refrigerator.
Clue 2
Cupboard.
Clue 3
Food tin.
Clue 4
Go to the rectangle.
Clue 5
The base of the food tin fits inside the rectangle 6 times.
CLUE 6
Number 6 located in the top right of the green section.
Yellow Section
Start
The rubber duck.
Clue 1
Take the left line on the bottom row and move this outside the vertical line to its left. Move the right line on the top row and the top line on the right side to complete this new box. So you have 3 boxes in a triangular shape, like this.
Clue 2
Imagine the pattern on a mobile phone keypad so each of the squares is filled by a number, these numbers and the arrow indicate the position of the pattern. You can then fill in the empty space and the decimal point indicates the letter. E.g you can work out the first coded letter is 4.1 which is indicating the first letter under the number 4 on the keypad, that is G. So working out the rest, the coded words are GO TO OCTAGON. How to work out the first letter G is shown here.
Clue 3
The USB stick.
Clue 4
Colour in the rectangle on the right, this is because in real life this side is filled by plastic and the other side is hollow.
Clue 5
Go to the USB socket.
CLUE 6
The wire leads to the icon of an ice cream.
CLUE 7
Mali.
CLUE 8
Draw a line back via The Taj Mahal.
Orange Section
Start
The orange.
Clue 1
Book worm, book shop and book case. If you draw a triangle between them the smallest angle is at the book shop so go to the clue here.
Clue 2
Coldplay, Yellow = Go to the planet clue on the bottom of the mat.
Clue 3
The next planet is Saturn, identify this by its distinctive rings.
Clue 4
The object is door (door frame, door handle, back door).
Clue 5
X = 12, Y = 8 Answer = 24.
Clue 6
Object A is now the purple area folded in half length ways and width ways.
Red Section
Start
The strawberry.
Clue 1 (North Section)
Bathroom.
Stage 1 (South Section)
Use a mirror to read the backwards words hidden in the text: Find the item which has a head and body and can be hard or soft manual or electric. This item is a tooth brush.
Stage 2 (South Section)
The item is tooth paste, look at the ingredients to figure out the words which is sodium fluoride.
Stage 3 (South Section)
Toilet roll.
Clue 2 (North Section)
Look at the periodic table.
Clue 3 (North Section)
Use the periodic table to find the periodic numbers of the elements = Sodium (Na) 11, Fluorine (F) 9.
Clue 4 (North Section)
(Na) 11 + (F) 9 = 20.
Pink Section
Start
The pig.
Order of the clues
Go to the goat then the monkey.
Cipher
Using the cipher correctly will reveal sections looking like this.
Final Code
redpinkorangegreenblueyellow.