This is a screenshot of the MD Discovery website, where the Discovery stages are blocked out by orange boxes with numbers. To solve the puzzle, we find out what words have been blocked, and take the nth letter of those words. This is a technique known as "indexing". Spaces do not count.
Blocked word
Number to extract
Extracted letter
FOUNDATION
1
F
APPLICATION
5
I
INTEGRATION
6
R
RESEARCH SCHOLAR PATHWAY
3
S
CLINICAL SCHOLAR PATHWAY
18
T
This yields the FIRST solve for the hunt!
Author's notes
Author: Allen
Welcome to MDSC Puzzles! We made this puzzle as a gentle introduction for what you might expect throughout this week. The tricky thing about the Puzzle Hunt style of puzzles is the lack of explicit instructions, which this puzzle showcases.