{"id":1887,"date":"2010-01-26T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2017-05-06T09:57:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T14:57:13","slug":"conundrum-the-big-picture-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/1887","title":{"rendered":"Conundrum: The Big Picture II"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a normal \u201cPic Tac Toe\u201d puzzle, there are nine pictures in a 3\u00d73 grid, like Tic-Tac-Toe. In each of the three rows, three columns, and two diagonals, there is a common theme that unites the three pictures. The challenge is to find the eight themes.<\/p>\n

In a “3D Pic Tac Toe\u201d puzzle, there are 27 pictures in a 3\u00d73×3 grid, like a Rubik\u2019s Cube. In each of the nine rows, nine columns, nine pillars, eighteen lateral diagonals, and four cross-cube diagonals, there is a common theme that unites the three pictures. The challenge is to find the 49 themes.<\/p>\n

A “Big Picture” puzzle is just like a “3D Pic Tac Toe” puzzle, except that each of the 49 themes will be a movie. Each of the three images in that theme will picture at least one actor who was in that movie. <\/p>\n

Imagine stacking the three levels below on top of one another. For reference, and notation guidelines, check out my last Big Picture<\/a> puzzle, including the comments. The rules here are identical to that puzzle. <\/p>\n

Looking at that puzzle will also help identify the actors in Image B5; tragically underused in that puzzle, it now plays a more central role. Although many of the same actors appear in both puzzles, none of the 49 movies in the solution to this puzzle is the same as any of the 49 movies in the previous puzzle’s solution.<\/p>\n

In Image B3, you will use the actors who voiced the animated characters shown, but none of the movies in the solution is animated, a documentary, or Robert Altman’s The Player<\/em>. <\/p>\n

You can click on each image to see a larger version:<\/p>\n

Top Level – Level A<\/h2>\n

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Middle Level – Level B<\/h2>\n

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\n<\/a><\/a><\/a>
\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

Bottom Level – Level C<\/h2>\n

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\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

Please post whatever you come up with in the comments section.<\/p>\n

Enjoy!\n<\/p>\n

UPDATE: See comments for correct themes provided by Lee (12), Neel Mehta (20), and JBenz (11). The following 6 themes remain unsolved:<\/p>\n

Columns<\/h3>\n

A1-A4-A7<\/p>\n

Lateral Diagonals<\/h3>\n

B3-B5-B7
\nA6-B5-C4
\nA2-B5-C8
\nA8-B5-C2
\nA3-B6-C9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a normal \u201cPic Tac Toe\u201d puzzle, there are nine pictures in a 3\u00d73 grid, like Tic-Tac-Toe. In each of the three rows, three columns, and two diagonals, there is a common theme that unites the three pictures. The challenge is to find the eight themes. In a “3D Pic Tac Toe\u201d puzzle, there are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,30,91,54,53,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-active","category-conundrum","category-hamlet","category-pic-tac-toe","category-special-feature","category-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6081,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions\/6081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}