The Cypher Files: Puzzle 12

Pie charts

“After the Chernobyl incident, nobody in Egypt plays arcade games anymore.”

Book Hint:

This one’s easy as pie – if you know your hazard symbols, video games, and Egyptian history.

Hint One
  • Think internet meme-style. Pie chart art.
Hint Two
  • The letters that go with each relevant pie chart will spell a word.
Hint Three
  • DO, TO, and RNA
Solution
  • Tornado
Clue 12
  • Shadows

One thought on “The Cypher Files: Puzzle 12

  1. I’ll try explain how I got there…

    They all have a black, and we know the 9 is correct, so that is one black on each row accounted for.

    I then guessed at the 7 being the next digit (correct in row 1, not in row 2 or 4).

    That means 3, 1 and 2 can’t be in the final answer because only 2 digits from MP are there.

    the same logic also eliminates 6 on row 2 (we have the 9 correct and the 7 is also there, but not where it is on row 2). So our numbers are 4, 5, 7, 8, 9.

    We have 9 7 – – 4 (4 is correct on rows 3 and 4). The missing digits are 5 and 8, and because they are both in the wrong place in row 3, they must be 5 8, giving the final solution as 9 7 5 8 4

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