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Operation: Semester Survival

The semester is almost over. The building is freezing. The coffee machine is judging you. Can you escape in time?

Mission Briefing

  • Solve 4 rooms to escape the semester
  • Your time is being tracked — fastest 5 win merch
  • Hints are available but add +60 seconds to your time
  • Screenshot your final score and email it to claim your prize
Room 1: The Inbox of Doom

Your inbox has exploded. Somewhere in these emails, a secret code is hidden. Click each email and look for the highlighted letters — unscramble them to find the password.

The highlighted letters spell a word related to what everyone at CMU-Q desperately needs. Read them in order from top to bottom.
Room 2: The Wiring Puzzle

The heating system is broken! Click the pipe segments to rotate them and connect a path from the 🔥 Boiler to the 🌡️ Thermostat.

Start from the boiler (top-left) and work outward. Green cells are already connected — focus on the gray ones next to them.

Click any pipe to rotate it 90°

Room 3: The Coffee Crisis

The coffee machine is working for once, but 4 people are in line and nobody remembers their order. Use the clues to figure out who ordered what.

Start with the clues that give you direct answers (clues 1 and 5). Then use elimination.

Clues

  1. The person from the Moot Boardroom ordered a Karak.
  2. Sara does not work in the Assembly Area and did not order an Americano.
  3. The Cappuccino was ordered by whoever works in the Community Garden.
  4. Ahmed works in the Mini Majlis.
  5. Fatima ordered a Latte.
  6. Khalid does not work in the Community Garden.

Assign each person their location and drink:

Room 4: The Final Lock

One last lock stands between you and freedom. Solve each riddle to find a digit. Combine all three digits to crack the code.

Riddle 1: Think of a word that means a group of 4 musicians. Riddle 2: There are 7 continents, subtract 2. Riddle 3: What do you get when you halve a dozen?

Riddles

  • 🔢 First digit: How many musicians are in a quartet?
  • 🔢 Second digit: How many continents are there on Earth minus two?
  • 🔢 Third digit: What is half of a dozen?
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2nd
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🎉 You Escaped! 🎉

You survived the semester. Your final time:

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🥇 GoldUnder 5:00
🥈 SilverUnder 8:00
🥉 BronzeUnder 12:00
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📸 Screenshot this screen and email it to falconweekly@andrew.cmu.edu to claim your prize!

Top 5 fastest times win CMU-Q merch. Good luck!

Now go get some karak. You've earned it. ☕