GREMLINS

May 10-11, 2024

Exposition of the Ultra Bonus

Each clue in the Ultra Bonus led to an entry in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet.

Hour 1:

  • Men and women in uniforms (campus security)
  • The victorious 2019 Williams Women's National Division III Champions of Track and Field
  • The Williams Inn (a hotel)

Hour 2:

  • The Nile Delta
  • A map showing where Zulu is spoken at home
  • An aeriel photo of Lima, Peru

Hour 3:

  • New York Yankee Aaron Judge
  • Speaker of the House Mike Johnson
  • Matthew Modine playing Dr. Martin Brenner in Netlix's Stranger Things. He is referred to as "Papa" by the children he experimented on.

Hour 4:

  • An X-Ray machine
  • An Amazon Echo
  • The official artifact that defines the kilogram

Hour 5:

  • The flag of Sierra Leone
  • The flag of Quebec
  • The flag of India

Hour 6:

  • Juliet on her balcony
  • Romeo climbing up to see her
  • Leonardo DiCaprio displaying an Oscar

Hour 7:

  • A bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey
  • Two people doing the Tango
  • A very meta offering from the comic Foxtrot

Hour 8:

  • The letter alpha
  • A Bravo supermarket
  • Charlie Chaplin, in his signature Little Tramp role

Note the sequence "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" in Hour 7. Golf and November are the only unused codewords.