9 of the teams seem to have been disqualified for some reason. Can you find out why?
Your entries should always remain common English words or phrases. Y is not considered a vowel.
- Assemble the 9 disqualified teams’ strategies and sort them by reverse alphabetical order.
- Two adjacent entries refer to an entity and a class of things that would include that entity. Swap them and take the class's first letter.
- Five of the entries consist of 2 words. Replace each of these entries with the lexicographically-earlier word.
- Two of the entries consist of 3 words. Replace each of these with its middle word.
- Take the middle letter of the middle entry.
- Replace the second vowel of one entry with the next occurring vowel alphabetically. Take the original vowel.
- Replace one entry with the name of the video game series which it appears in.
- Prepend an entry with a letter to make a body part.
- Two adjacent entries could both be prefixes to the same three letter word. Take the first letter of this word and swap the entries.
- There is a unique entry that contains a double letter. Remove one instance of this letter and take it.
- Replace a letter of an entry to produce the name of an American college. Take the new letter.
- Replace a sports team with the name of the city they play in.
- Replace a word with its three middle letters. Take the last letter.
- Caesar shift one entry forward 9 letters, and remove the first letter to produce a common first name.
- Replace a movie with the last name of the actor who won an Oscar for it.
- Prepend the same letter to four adjacent entries. Take this added letter.
- Replace the first letters of the first and penultimate entries with the same letter to produce words related to magic. Take this new letter.
- Switch the first letter of as many entries as possible to M.
- Two of the entries are plural. Replace each with its singular counterpart.
- Re-alphabetize the entries and take the middle letter of the first entry.
- All the letters of the sixth entry appear in the name of a room in Clue. Replace the entry with the room on the opposite side of the board.
- Two of the entries only differ by one extra letter. Take that extra letter.
- Caesar shift the last letters of two adjacent entries forward by one.
- Replace the first and last letters of an entry with the same vowel. Take this vowel.
- Replace the third letter of as many entries as possible with D.
- Remove the third letter of the third entry and take it. Then, shift its fourth letter forward by four.
- Replace the middle entry with the name of the letter that it is derived from.
- Replace an entry with the number that most commonly follows it. Then Caesar shift it forward by that number.
- Remove the last two letters of the second entry.
- If all the letters of an entry appear in the name of a day of the week, replace the entry with that day. Take the first letter of first weekday not represented.
- Replace each entry with its last three letters, if possible.
- For all odd-length entries, shift its first and last letters forward by 15, and shift its middle letter backwards by 2.
- Replace every entry with an appropriate response, and then take the second letter of the fourth entry.
- Repeat step 1 and then take the sixth letter of the first entry.
- The last word of one entry is the first word of a Cannes Film Festival entry from the 1950s. Replace this entry with the rest of the movie title.
- Swap the last three letters of one entry with the prior four letters, and then replace the new last two letters with a D.
- Change the gender of one entry.
- For some c, prepend the (i + c)th letter of the alphabet to entry i for i between 2 and 9 inclusive. Also insert the (13 + c)th letter in two entries. Finally, take the letter you prepended to the fourth entry.