Solution: Ruby's Password
Answer: RUBYONETWOTHREE
Author: Benji Nguyen
Devs: Ryan Liu, Violet Xiao
Each of these puzzles is a callback to one of the puzzles in the COO round. Together, their answers give you Ruby's password, RUBYONETWOTHREE.
"True" Friends
The picture is in Florence, Italy. To the left of the bar is a hotel, which is where one may rent a room. Room in Italian is CAMERA. Index 5 (the number of question marks) into CAMERA to get the letter R.
Tracking Numbers
| H | A | V | O | C |
| E | I | O | ||
| A | R | S | O | N |
| D | U | C | ||
| E | V | A | D | E |
| L | L | I | ||
| E | F | F | A | T |
| M | I | E | ||
| E | M | E | N | D |
| N | L | L | ||
| T | E | D | D | Y |
The grid makes a U when you highlight the answers with ADELE and ED in them.
Make Your Own Puzzlehunt
This poster corresponds to Huntinality 1. The team clued is Pluru (Peace Love Unity Regret form the acronym PLUR and adding Unity gives another U). The puzzle referenced in the post is Wah-Street Bets. Because Pluru was the 10th place team, you extract the 10th letter to get the letter B.
Triangular Moves
Solving the clues will yield the following grid:
| A | R | O | W | |||
| B | B | O | O | K | U | P |
| C | Y | E | G | P | E | E |
| D | B | O | P |
To checkmate the black king in triangular chess, one may move the white bishop on row D to the Y cell. Thus, the letter extracted here is Y.
Cryptic Images
A picture of Neo is broken, representing an anagram as it did in the original puzzle. The solution to this part is ONE.
Random Anagramming
Opening a door, perhaps: PUSHING Site with tents: CAMPGROUND In the direction of: TOWARD Shift: Decay: ROT
Rotating PUSHING by R, CAMPGROUND by O, and TOWARD by T will leave you with the letters needed to make the word TWO.
Escape
These are examples of the five ciphers used in Escape. After applying Chains of Death, Knights' Templar, Mayan numerals, Pigpen, and Dancing Men respectively, you get the word THREE.