I’m not too hot at trigram puzzles, and it took me 15 minutes to get even one answer in this one.  Things got a bit better after, and I finished in about 70 minutes, thanks to a bit of a guess at the end.

The puzzle is here: http://www.markhalpin.com/puzzles/wisht/wtpuzzles/cyclops.pdf and Mark’s answer checker is here: http://www.markhalpin.com/puzzles/wisht/wtanswers/answerpage.html

My solving log is after the cut.

Log:

0:00:00

opening puzzle

0:02:29

No clue so far

0:02:42

5 3 4? looks like WHERE ARE YOU. Those aren’t in the bottom triplets. of course the bottom triplets are all 3s, and the enumerations aren’t all multiples of 3 

0:03:46

scooby doo or car 54, which I thought of. google, you’re no help

0:09:23

Counting letters to see if trigram letters go into enumerations … trigrams (5x10+3)*3 = 159 

0:11:05

yep, 159 enumerations… looks like a go

0:12:27

Marked down for each one how many letters are in the first part (1,2, or 3) (all are 1 or 3, oddly)

0:14:50

saw BRIDGE early on. could be BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY.. checking

0:23:16

got THRONE OF BLOOD, same plot as MACBETH, which is probably important

0:24:31

Are we choosing the selected letter from what its adapted from or the film we have, or both?

0:27:04

Trying to glue trigrams together.. like NIG+HTL

0:28:27

ALL NIGHT LONG works… checking

0:29:44

Yep, based on OTHELLO

0:33:27

looked for trigrams for 2 3… got MY OWN… MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO

0:38:22

trying to get the next one that starts I?

0:42:27

looked for the first one, got A THOUSAND ACRES (king lear). first letter of #2 could be R or T. darn

0:45:16

Sneaky. the 7th one is 10 things I hate about you…

0:46:50

next one is RENT

0:48:31

#2 ends A NOVEL

0:49:08

ALTERNATIVE is one answer (using the movies given)

0:49:41

Can’t get the other A??TRYFOL??

0:58:01

duh, finally got #3, O BROTHER

0:59:36

A?STRYFOL?? hmmm

1:01:18

I tried REVENGE for #2 earlier and didn’t find the trigrams

1:02:16

THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO… ANSTRYFOL??

1:05:00

Putting them in a spreadsheet so I can sort them

1:06:42

sorting by source material: NYAOTSLRF. bad

1:07:03

or FLARYSONT. bad

1:07:49

ANS TRY FOL?? so FOLKS or something like that?  [ANS TRY was a fortunate typo for AND TRY. I don’t know what would have happened if I’d gotten ANETRY or something]

1:08:47

guessed FOLIO