This was a fast one (and a cute little puzzle that we liked). We had the clue phrase in six-and-a-half minutes, and the answer in ten.

It wouldn’t have gone nearly as fast as a solo solve. We definitely helped each other with each of the steps.

The puzzle is here: http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~mums/puzzlehunt/2010/puzzles/puzzle34.pdf and our log is after the cut.

Log:

0:00:00

Opening puzzle

0:00:25

A short music puzzle. Flavor text more likely to matter, reading it.

0:01:29

J: “A very good place to start” is from the Do-Re-Mi song in The Sound of Music

0:01:57

Let’s translate to do-re-mi lingo… no idea what half/qtr notes mean

0:02:47

Last paragraph of flavortext mentions piano, steam, merry, baseball, note-book … “merry” may matter.

0:04:40

J: I think the notes are E-F-A-E-B-E-F-A-C-A-B-E-F-E

0:04:45

J: Mi-Fa-La-Mi-Ti-Mi-Fa-La-Do-La-Ti-Mi-Fa-Mi

0:05:39

J: Maybe 1/2 and 1/4 notes pick letters?

0:06:21

One way: IFLITIFLOATIAM  [I did both ways for the first 5 notes or so, IFLI was more promising of the two]

0:06:41

butterfly? ali?  [Eric, do you see STING/FLOAT? no. … I know, I was confused.]

0:08:05

MUHAMMAD ALI, ALI, both wrong.

0:08:45

oh, it’s another Sound of Music lyric. [ I googled them as lyrics]

0:09:38

Louisa sings that line in the movie.

0:10:01

LOUISA is correct!