Of Boys And Girls

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

Highest purity for a jewelry material
Notorious rapper
Acronym related to movie making
Montreal commuter rail
Mov. starring Will Smith
1970’s rock subgenre
Sci-fi military video game franchise
Gritty film genre
Month
Hanna-Barbara canine character
Letter in the NATO alphabet
Shedding-card game
One of the five senses
Double
Parts of a bird
You can find it on SpaceX patches
Famous British scientific journal
Black and white traffic sign
US department store
Title one can get in a competition
Scientific explosion
Common battery size
Paul Harvey used to say this
Common character in social media
School subject
Ghost
Cryptocoin related to space
Female MGS character
Has been a WWF and WWE champion
Sweet pain?
Bookmark
Deep Purple album
Common polygon
Book protagonized by Philip Marlowe
Male significant other
What a student might do (while studying)
Type of cupcake
Number between ten and twenty

24 hours after puzzle release, a hint will be available here.

A Not-so Stellar Sight

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

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*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

Two hours after puzzle release, a hint will be available here.

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



Boat Building

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.

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

See you in February!

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