Day 23 - METAPUZZLE: "Dice"

The Solution

Splice together the diced-up thoughts of the monsters to match the thoughts they produce when Mallow casts "Psychopath" on them. Here's a list of all the monsters in Super Mario RPG with their Psychopath thoughts. The approaching monsters are Goomba, Goby, Amanita, Shy Guy, Knife Guy, Birdo, and Pinwheel.

The dice notations under "HP" can yield many different values, but each of the monsters whose minds you've read has an HP value that can only match one dice roll. So the HP section gives us a unique ordering for the monsters.

Now we can bring in the answers from this round, the "spells" you can use on each monster. Each answer matches one monster, in terms of its letter-enumeration, and each pair has one letter in common at a particular position:

The matching letters spell out the answer, THERAPY—a spell of Princess Toadstool's that comes in handy when you're out of healing items.

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