Context: This puzzle was distributed after Zorg introduced himself to teams and showed off the features of the ZF5, a highly sophisticated weapon consisting of two plastic cups taped together at the rims, and containing:
Context: This puzzle was distributed after Zorg introduced himself to teams and showed off the features of the ZF5, a highly sophisticated weapon consisting of two plastic cups taped together at the rims, and containing:
After Zorg got a cell phone call and "bled" ketchup out of his forehead, one of his representatives distributed a manual (view in PDF format) for the ZF5, and the game was afoot!
Arrival Text
TRUMP's introductions module has determined that you are new users. This Thinking Recreational-Use Mondoshawan Portable has been reconfigured by Zorg Industries to assist you with the problem-solving tasks that you will encounter during the show.
Every time you input a new start code, you should read the first "Hint"(s) to learn more about the nature of the task at hand. TRUMP will display additional "Hints" as it carries out its own analyses. You may be able to speed this process along by entering messages that you encounter in the course of solving the problem. You should enter such messages in their entirety. Some tasks will lack these "partial answers", and minor components like answers to individual crossword clues don't count. General statements about encoding schemes, such as SEMAPHORE, will not work, either.
Certain tasks will consist of a number of sub-tasks. In these cases, TRUMP will confirm each sub-answer. Furthermore, TRUMP's advice module has determined that you should keep track of the start codes associated with each puzzle, because later puzzles may refer to previous puzzles by their start codes.
Further questions? Ask a Zorg agent!
