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Episode 6, July 21

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World One: Episode 6: July 21. 2019 from Fourcaster on Vimeo .

The transmission begins with the Anchor recapping the puzzles that TERI has completed, and reminding viewers that there are three puzzles remaining (three missing tiles on the wall). For the Minecraft can puzzle, the Anchor reveals that he used to discuss Minecraft in his Critical Videogame Studies course at the University of Chicago. He mentions that he has been thinking about the cans and suspects that they have something to do with droughts and crop failure, speculating about whether the puzzle might be related to the health associated with each of the Minecraft foods. He then asks TERI whether it can convert the food into numbers and the numbers into letters.

The Anchor then discusses is the ice cube puzzle, noting that the ice placed on the heat source will take some more time to melt completely. For the final puzzle, the Anchor shows nine SNES video game cartridges that he has found. He reads out their titles as well as numbers and letters that appear on the back of each. 

After the broadcast, viewers assemble a list of the games, organized chronologically according to release date.

    1. Legend of Zelda (4)
    2. Populous (7C)
    3. Super Mario World (Z)
    4. ActRaiser (V=)
    5. Fatal Fury (Eu)
    6. Axelay (2)
    7. Super Bomberman 2 (bC)
    8. Chrono Trigger (9)
    9. Yoshi’s Island (8)

As they work on another puzzle, participants also discover that the hunger-restore values of the Minecraft food slides index into the alphabet, spelling out ANCHORCHOWCOM, leading them to the anchorchow.com website where players are given a Minecraft file which they then download. The world contains several animal pens, each containing a different number of a specific type of animal. However, the players assumed this to be a ruse. Digging down into the Minecraft world reveals a picture of the Earth.