Fun in the Mud

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Puzzle Boat

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Solutions

  1. Catbert = MISTLETOE
  2. Bob the Dinosaur = BEHEMOTH
  3. Wally = BOARDROOM
  4. Yorgi the Elbonian = NAUGHTY
  5. Dilbert's Mom = PRIVATES
  6. The Pointy Haired Boss = MORONS
  7. Alice = TROUPER
  8. Dogbert = CHAINSAW
  9. Mordac the Preventer = THWARTED (8)
  10. Ratbert = DOODLE? (6)
  11. Garbage = CONSIDER
  12. Tina = CRABBY? (6)

Try 1

The question marks are Dilbert.

You find the starting spot and follow their eyes until you step off the board.

*STEPHENM*
HMM?AI?IOO
*ATEDBY*WO
EPTANS?ARR
RO*MS*TNRE
COAUTGEORV
TCDRHWDTOO
OU*AREH*OI
BNL?RA?ESC
*ORSIHTDE*

Reading around the outside and turning on the Dilberts, you get:

STEPHEN MOORE VOICED THIS ROBOT CREATED BY ANOTHER ADAMS

which is Marvin the Paranoid Android from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Try 2

Inserting the current letters into the board. Stars are dilbert. --Jcone 14:15, 23 August 2006 (EDT)


*C??P?BHE*
HMM?AI?IO?
*NRI?EN*S?
TRSAUT??C?
OB*OO*UNPL
SRVG?H?IOA
MAARW??EOT
DE*RTTH*RE
ONO????ES?
*OMSDTYER*