Written by
Yanaphat Hemrattaphan
This is a variant of N-Cells (e.g. Four Cells) except with eight cells and in 3D.
Solving the logic grid divides the 4x4x5 volume into ten regions of eight cubes each. One possible logical solution path can be found
in this google sheet.
The red circles are inside five of the
ten regions. In each of these regions one of the circles has a plus in it. This is a
hint to sum up the numbers with red circles (including the one with the plus) per each region.
Reading the A1Z26 letters in the level where the corresponding circle with the plus appears gives WHUTS.
A quick search will lead to https://whuts.org/ where you can find all
261 of hypercube nets.
The five regions we have are also valid nets of hypercubes. The medal and clock emojis
suggest that we should find the person who solves each hypercube net and their submission time.
The blanks are enumerations of the solvers and are ordered by the hypercube net ID which hopefully
helps alleviate the tedium of parsing through all the nets. Reorder by solve time (note the clock emojis
are consistent with the fastest and slowest time in our dataset) and read the extracted letters
in column major order to get the final answer phrase IT IS JINGLE DRESS.
| Solved By | ID | Time | Index 1 | Index 2 | Index 3 |
|---|
| Dmitriy Molostvov | #251 | 05/14/21 5:26 PM | I | I | D |
| Andrew Taylor | #140 | 05/14/21 5:36 PM | T | N | R |
| Benjamin Grant | #137 | 05/14/21 5:47 PM | I | G | E |
| Lewis Sugden | #109 | 05/14/21 6:01 PM | S | L | S |
| Jim Andress | #197 | 05/14/21 6:14 PM | J | E | S |
Author’s Notes
This puzzle is a part of the logic puzzle trilogy:
Join, or Die,
Identification,
and Eight Cells. Join, or Die foreshadows the event on Round 2,
Identification gives a (very lengthy) backstory, and Eight Cells is the aftermath.
You can think about Join, or Die as a puzzle about 2D net of a 3d object. And after
the event in Round 2 it transforms into Eight Cells: a puzzle about 3D net of a 4D object.