A Primary Concern (Answer)

Answer to Monday, August 27 puzzle below the break.


This puzzle was originally created for a local shebang that followed the format of a Post Hunt, and which I may detail further at some point in the future.

For that event, given that players had limited time to solve, additional hints were given by the format in which the puzzle was presented. The image was given three times and presented with some text, like so:

It may look confusing, but remember your primary goal. Whether you're well-read, feeling blue, or just plain yellow, you're sure to find the color you seek.

This was a hint to solvers that there were three pieces of a message contained in the single image shown, and that each was linked to one of the three primary colors (subtractive, and simplified as most people learned in school, 'cause it's harder to make puns with cyan and magenta). Overlapping wheels of color were also present in a fake advertisement in our version of the Hunt mag, which served as another hint and a reminder to anyone who forgot how the colors went together. 

The key is to pay attention only to colors containing a given primary color. For instance, if you look only at the colors containing red (red, orange, purple, and brown), you see this:

If you look only at the colors containing blue (blue, green, purple, and brown), you see this:

And if you look at only the colors containing yellow (yellow, green, orange, and brown), you see this:

Reading them together, you get: THE ANSWER IS CYAN.