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Welcome to the rainy garden path. Rain smeared a path sign, and a cancelled walk must be separated from the walk that happened. Your team has the original records on the table. First recover five pieces of information, then use the final plan to trace the waterproof message pouch. Keep every result beside its badge so another teammate can check your reasoning.
Rotate player roles · Choose a useful hint · Manage two teams
Start with the status field in Walk reports.
The tag links an item to a bay; rows in separate records need not line up.
Keep only entries meeting every status test. Follow each printed join to the report field; do not guess from row position.
EAST
Check source status first, then join the matching tag. The useful information comes from separate records, not their printed row order. Result: EAST.
Find S, F, the required-stop list and any CLOSED edge.
A cheap shortcut is not a complete journey if it skips a required stop.
List the legal complete paths, add their edge costs and compare only paths that meet every condition.
S-B-C-F
Discard closed roads and paths missing C. Add the costs of every remaining edge; the lowest eligible total determines the whole route. Result: S-B-C-F.
Read the boot-print reports and the requirements.
Compare the same named feature across cards; check negative requirements as carefully as positive ones.
Keep a card only if it passes every requirement. Point to the failing feature before crossing out each alternative.
OAK
Compare all printed features with every positive and negative requirement. Reject each near match using the particular requirement it fails. Result: OAK.
Look at earliest start, each window end and the arrival deadline.
The journey uses time as well as the job; add both to the start of each window.
Check all three conditions for each window. A slot can be long enough yet start too early or arrive too late.
MID
Add job time and travel time to each printed start. Compare the sum with both that window's end and the deadline, then reject early starts. Result: MID.
Look at the training cards that share one signal.
In an unordered pair, a word cannot be assigned by its left/right position. Use the overlap with another pair.
Give each signal a different word, check every training example and only then decode the received message in its printed order.
HOLD-RIGHT
A consistent one-to-one mapping satisfies every training example. Use the complete mapping to read the two-signal message in order. Result: HOLD-RIGHT.
Keep the five named results beside the final plan and find the key for each badge.
Each badge controls a different fact, road leg, order note, pulse or habitat layer. Use the matching key exactly once.
Check the completed product against all five recovered facts. If two answers remain, locate the fact that distinguishes them rather than guessing.
BAY-L
Translate each recovered result through its named evidence key. Each location must match all five recovered features. Both values occur equally often in each column, so the location plan alone cannot identify the answer. Checked result: BAY-L.
Pause whenever the group needs a break. This is a planning estimate.