Author: Puzzles Admin

Maybe if you found the liaison between these groups, the place where they sometimes meet with their fans will be clear…

William Moon reads the stars. Where will they take him tonight?

Amid
*Catch, as with game
Category, like of a song
Character, relating to an actor
Clothing of a Roman
Compound after organic acid and alcohol react
Cream that heals
Gets by merit
Hard to digest material in diet
*Laconic
Rage
Smoothed, as nails
*Something that might bleat
Span
*Swathe of grass-covered land
Tropical stone fruit

Note: Mission Street Puzzles’ interactive puzzles are best viewed in the Chrome browser.

It’s been two days since the storm carried you to this desert island and threw you against the rocks. You managed to crawl ashore, but your little wooden sailboat was destroyed–luckily, you salvaged all the pieces before they became driftwood, but they’ve been damaged. First, complete the pieces, then drag them into place and rebuild your boat to find out where you plan to have your first meal once you return to civilization (4, 4)! The first piece has been repaired already.

Note: Mission Street Puzzles’ interactive puzzles are best viewed in the Chrome browser.

Aaaaaand, 26 puzzles later, it’s a wrap on the first ever season of MSP! Thanks so much to all of the impressive teams that joined us over the last 6 months. We’ll be back with Season 2 on February 7th, and we’d love it if you would share your thoughts to help us make it even better by filling out our 5-minute feedback survey! We really appreciate all responses, even if you haven’t solved any puzzles.

 

Winners

The overall Season One winner is….. drumroll please…… just kidding, he’s been on top for quite a while….. Jeff! Jeff completed all 26 puzzles with a median solve time of 2 hours and 4 minutes. Wow!

Thanks so much to everyone who participated; had a ton of amazing teams this season. The following 22 teams all completed 10 or more puzzles, ordered by number of completed puzzles and median solve time.

Team Name	Puzzles Solved	Median Solve Time
Jeff	26	2:14:30
David + Adriana	26	72:56:00
??	24	60:32:00
Knights of the Square Table	21	35:56:00
MA.D GG.B	18	1:43:00
Team i eta p sub pi	18	7:04:00
Davidsteinandfriends	17	1:14:00
Quirksome Quells	17	2:23:00
Puma Pants	17	20:26:00
AJO	17	39:25:00
Oakland Blokes	16	1:52:30
Order of Magnitude	15	3:54:00
This is the best we can do from Belgium	15	42:51:00
Eigengrau	14	2:16:30
Dukael Mikakis	13	4:36:00
Tough&Ripped	13	12:51:00
Never Leave the Mission 2.0	12	2:23:30
Team White Maria	11	4:26:00
Team Fost	11	34:48:00
Team Carly	10	1:22:30
Ducky Charms	10	27:16:30
The Muppeteers	10	29:06:30

Great job everyone!

 

Next Season

Season 2 of Mission Street Puzzles will start on February 7th. A few notes:

• The season will last for 12 weeks, with the same structure as this season–new puzzles every week.
• One upcoming change: we will allow teams to submit answers for past weeks for as long as the season is still running. For example, if you’re out of town for a week and you miss a puzzle, you can just submit it the next week with a later solve time. All submissions will just be due by the last day of the season. This should open things up, and also make it easier on teams that want to start partway through the season.
• We are also excited to announce that starting next season, answers will be in cities other than San Francisco! We’re picturing an around-the-world puzzle journey, with each season bringing us to new places. We’re already working on this and are really excited about how it’s looking.

For more updates on the next season, please like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. See you in February!

–MSP

And the correct answer to the Road Trip (Part One) puzzle was…

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