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SOLUTION: ROSTER CUTS

Given three players, there are only seven potential arrangements of helmets – starting with Damiere on the left-hand side, here are all of them (S = silver, B= blue):

SSS
SSB
SBS
BSS
SBB
BSB
BBS

Damiere can see both other players, but the ONLY way he can know for sure what his own helmet is if BOTH of the helmets he sees are blue (thus there will only be silvers left to fill out his own).  Since he states that he doesn’t know, this eliminates SBB, leaving:

SSS
SSB
SBS
BSS
BSB
BBS

Therefore, Chad now knows that there MUST be at least one silver among him and Brandon.  Chad can see Brandon, so if he sees that Brandon is wearing a blue helmet, he KNOWS that his must be silver (since they can’t both be blue).  Since Chad states that he doesn’t know, we can assume that he DOESN’T see this – eliminating SSB and BSB – and leaving behind:

SSS
SBS
BSS
BBS

Brandon, who apparently is pretty goddamned smart to see all of this through a concussion-filled haze, knows that in all the remaining combinations, he MUST be wearing a silver helmet.

SOLUTION: ELI’S VOCABULARY QUIZ – AFC EAST AND WEST

1-E, 2-A, 3-H, 4-B, 5-G, 6-C, 7-F, 8-D

New England – insufferable
New York Jets – subhuman
Buffalo – pitiable
Miami – retrospective

San Diego – itinerant
Oakland – incarcerated
Denver – vertiginious
Kansas City – stentorian

SOLUTION: WORM JUNGLE!

fosteR

whitE

poUncey

benJamin

loaDholt

smIth

nelsoN

PUZZLE WORD: INJURED

SOLUTION: ELI’S VOCABULARY QUIZ – AFC NORTH AND SOUTH

1-C, 2-F, 3-E, 4-G, 5-A, 6-D, 7-H, 8-B

Cleveland – disconsolate
Pittsburgh – supercilious
Baltimore – bellicose
Cincinnati – crestfallen

Indianapolis – corpulent
Houston – illusory
Jacksonville – mislaid
Tennessee – benighted

SOLUTION: BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE

Remove the middle three fingers, leaving two small and one large triangle.

Bonus riddle solution: Dr. Chao told JPP that his Super Bowl ring had been damaged in the explosion, and asked what they should do with it. Chao is, as Bill Parcells would put it, sneaky.

SOLUTION: WHERE IN THE WORLD IS CARMEN 5CHAN DIEGO? PART 2

Chattanooga, Tennessee

SOLUTION: WHERE IN THE WORLD IS CARMEN 5CHAN DIEGO? PART 2

The following is one of several solutions (if your solution is different, it is still correct, as long as you didn’t pass through the same point twice, or skip any points).

SOLUTION: WHERE IN THE WORLD IS CARMEN 5CHAN DIEGO? PART 1

Each line marked with a “-” contains the name of a ska band.  Take the letters notated by the puzzle key to get the solution.

Madness (3)

Bad Manners (10)

Ruder Than You (13)

No Doubt (2)

Less Than Jake (1)

The Specials (3)

Rancid (5)

SOLUTION: THE ALEX ‘N’ ANDY SHOW

ANDY and ALEX cross. (BCbc – Aa)

ALEX returns. (BCabc – A)

BRANDY and CANDY cross. (abc – ABC)

Andy returns. (Aabc – BC)

Brayden and Caleb cross. (Aa – BCbc)

Brayden and Brandy return (ABab – Cc)

Alex and Brayden cross (AB – Cabc)

Candy returns (ABC – abc)

Andy and Brandy cross (C – ABabc)

Brandy returns (BC – Aabc)

Brandy and Candy cross (DONE)