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Pathway 5, Subject 1

Clinic Bookings

Solution: DR ROBINSON

Solves: 25 Guesses: 37

These "registrars" are all doctors who feature in works of literature. Simply identify the authors ("consultants") and use the room numbers to index into the authors' names. This should spell DR ROBINSON.

"Registrar" Work of literature Author Room (index) Letter
Dr T. J. Eckleburg The Great Gatsby FITZGERALD 10 D
Dr H. Wilbourne The Wild Palms FAULKNER 8 R
Dr H. Lecter Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs HARRIS 3 R
Dr J. H. Watson Sherlock Holmes series (CONAN) DOYLE 2 O
Dr E. Spindrift The Doctor is Sick BURGESS 1 B
Dr J. No Dr. No FLEMING 5 I
Dr S. Maturin Aubrey-Maturin series O'BRIAN 6 N
Dr A. Woodcourt Bleak House DICKENS 7 S
Dr T. Lydgate Middlemarch ELIOT 4 O
Dr H. Jekyll Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde STEVENSON 9 N


Author's notes

Author: Dan

This was actually the first puzzle that I wrote for this puzzle hunt! I always wanted the answer to be “HUCKLEBERRY” for the mini-meta of this set, so decided upon a literary-themed medical puzzle (rather than, say, a berry-themed medical puzzle).

Naturally, in order to fit the theme of the rest of this puzzle, I thought it was appropriate to make the puzzle answer the doctor from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Unfortunately, for some reason, Dr Robinson also appears in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Even more confusingly, the two Dr Robinsons are actually different characters (spoiler alert: the Dr Robinson in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer actually dies while the Dr Robinson in the sequel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn does not, so they cannot canonically be the same Dr Robinson). It’s almost like great Mark Twain does not know the name of any other doctors!


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Guess log

Frequency Guess
25 DRROBINSON
1 ARACAMANIS
1 BDHEFODFSF
1 DOCTORWHO
1 DRRANDOM
1 DRROBINSIN
1 DRRODMANON
1 DRROOMONE
1 DRSEUSS
1 H
1 RMANON
1 RODMANON
1 STEREOTACTIC

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