THE PLAY

At the Arsht Center opera house, actors performed an old-fashioned murder mystery. As the play began, the characters discovered the dead body of a man named Jack. As they tried to identify the killer, the stage plunged into blackness. A voice announced the technical difficulties would be resolved shortly. A minute later, the lights came back on, and the actors picked up where they left off. But as the play progressed, the characters began to talk about how something was different. It was up to the audience to figure out what: Jack, the corpse, had been white before the lights went out. When they came back on, he was black. Jack had become black. Blackjack is also called 21. 21 is the solution.

THE CAROL

A holiday chorus performed on the Main Stage in front of The Miami Herald building. They were all dressed in Miami Herald T-shirts, but two of the group also sported white wings and halos. The concert began with the opening bars of Hark the Herald Angels Sing, into a rendition of The 12 Days of Christmas. Hunters had to notice that the two singers with wings only sang the lyrics to certain of the 12 days: 3, 5 and 11. These were the ``Herald Angels,'' which the intro music told Hunters to ``hark'' -- which means to listen to closely. The solution is to note the numbers for the days on which the angels sang along. The solution was 3511.

THE BRACELET

At Trinity Cathedral, Hunters were given rubber bracelets, the type Lance Armstrong made famous. They were instructed: ``Put it on your wrist.'' But putting it on their own wrists did nothing to help solve the puzzle. Hunters had to notice that the legend printed on the bracelet wasn't an inspirational slogan, but simply ``P. 3.'' The sharp Hunters thought to look at Page 3 of the Hunt issue, on which there was something called ``Letter Jumble'' -- a rectangle filled with letters in which there were hidden word scrambles. In the middle of the rectangle of jumbled letters, the letters Y, O, U, R, W, R, I, S, T formed a circle the exact size of the bracelet. If Hunters placed the bracelet on YOUR WRIST, as they had been directed, it formed a circle around 10 other letters: X, S, E, I, E, N and T. Unscrambled, the letters spelled sixteen, which was the solution.

THE BALCONY

Hunters arrived at the Arsht Center plaza to find a version of the classic Romeo and Juliet scene being enacted. Juliet poured out her heart on the balcony above the plaza, while Romeo pleaded from ground level. But in this version, the balcony is so high, the two would-be lovers can't seem to hear each other. In frustration, Romeo yells to Juliet: ``Call me at my house!'' Alert Hunters noticed that a page of restaurants in the Hunt issue contained an ad for a made-up Italian restaurant called House of Montague. Montague is Romeo's last name, as all who listened closely to the performance knew. When they called the number listed, they got this recorded phone message: `` `Wherefore art thou' has four syllables. No, yes, no, yes.''

That was a way of saying: pay attention to the second and fourth syllables, which were ``fore thou.'' The solution to the puzzle was 4,000.

THE SUDOKU PUZZLE

At the dock near the Venetian causeway, Hunters were handed a 4x4 Sudoku puzzle titled, The Bottom Line Sudoku Puzzle. The handout included an explanation of how to solve Sudoku, but this particular puzzle -- with only the two top corners filled in -- was impossible to solve before a few more squares were filled in. Hunters had to focus on the four center squares of the otherwise empty puzzle grid, which contained four question marks similar to four question marks on the Hunt Map. The sharpest Hunters proceeded to the locations indicated by the question marks on the Map. There they found four presentations, one for each question mark. The first was a loop recording of an announcer calling a Dolphins field goal attempt, ``It's up. It's good!'' That represented the number 3. The second was an intravenous stand, as in the hospital, which is referred to as I.V. IV is the Roman numeral for 4. The third was a billboard of a golfer cupping his mouth with his hand as if yelling, and an empty word balloon; ``fore'' or 4. At the final question mark was an image of a basketball player dunking the ball; 2. Hunters who filled in the question-mark squares of the puzzle with those numbers could now easily solve the Sudoku. When all the squares of the puzzle were filled in with numbers, the ``bottom line'' of the puzzle was 2134, the solution.