Host materials · includes answers
The observatory has a near-match star label, two different chart copies and a telescope keeper list. Restore the reading order for tonight’s imaginary sky. Collect five named badge digits and use the final sheet. Every clue is on the table; ask the host for one hint at a time.
Rotate player roles · Choose a useful hint · Manage two teams
Start at S and check every letter.
The exact word starts in row 3, column 1. Check its letters against the target.
In that row, copy column 5, the cell immediately after the complete word.
6
Only row 3 has STAR followed immediately by 6. Other rows have changed or reversed letters.
Compare position 1 with position 1, not with a nearby matching shape.
Position 1 is one difference: hexagon in A, square in B. Mark it once.
Compare the remaining numbered pairs one by one. Add one mark for each unequal pair, then count all your marks.
5
Different positions are 1, 3, 4, 6, 8. There are 5 differences.
No item can belong to two people. Cross out each forbidden pairing.
Rigel cannot have two items, so Rigel must have Pen.
Cross Pen off for the other two people. Apply the last NOT rule, then find Rigel's item.
9
Vega has Scope; Rigel has Pen; Deneb has Chart. Rigel's item gives 9.
The printed cards are deliberately out of order.
Open roof must come first. Work out which action comes directly after it.
The first two actions are Open roof, then Set scope. Finish the chain and read position 4.
2
The only order is Open roof > Set scope > Read chart > Record sky. Position 4 carries 2.
Move one square for each arrow. A revisit still counts as a move.
After the first 3 arrows, you are at row 2, column 3. Continue from there.
From that checkpoint follow up, right, down, down. Copy the last cell.
9
The route ends at row 3, column 4. That cell gives 9.
Keep all five named badge results beside this sheet.
Begin with Label, then Keeper.
Copy one digit per printed badge box from left to right. Do not sort by clue number; zero remains a digit.
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Label > Keeper > Read > Chart > Point
Pause whenever the group needs a break. This is a planning estimate.