The lettered clues indicate various video game characters and concepts that are all represented by Spirits in Super Smash Brothers Ultimate. I consider it inelegant to do two SSBU puzzles so close together, but I have to go with whatever puzzle idea comes to me on the day. Anyway, they are given in alphabetical order:
- "Any objections, Lady?": ADAM MALKOVICH
- Virtual pet for Sonic or Shadow: CHAO
- Hinawa's redheaded son: CLAUS
- Biggest rainbow eagle in Dream Land: DYNA BLADE
- Bounty hunter with Grapple Voltage: GANDRAYDA
- Vaguely pig-shaped Demon King: GANON
- Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde: GHOSTS (is the name of the SSBU Spirit)
- Fire/Flying Johto Legendary: HO-OH
- Vehicle for Titania or Macbeth: LANDMASTER
- Vanilla Dome boss: LEMMY
- Hocotate Freight's worst employee: LOUIE
- Distant ancestor of Chrom and Lucina: MARTH
- Turns bear and bird into dishwasher: MUMBO JUMBO
- Mushroom person transformed by crown: PEACHETTE
- Only ghost Luigi likes: POLTERPUP
- Red-eyed harpist: SHEIK
- Flashlight-carrying parrot: SQUAWKS
- Sūryanamaskāra: SUN SALUTATION
- Generic mushroom person: TOAD
- Mech suit built from cardboard: TOY-CON ROBOT
- Creep with an uppercase gamma on his hat: WALUIGI
- Vīrabhadrāsana: WARRIOR
- Chocolate Island boss: WENDY
- The Metroids were engineered as a biological weapon against this bizarre and menacing lifeform: X PARASITE, how about that
The Spirits are all numbered, so you can use those numbers to solve the math problems. The answer to each equation is also the number of a Spirit:
- Ghosts (948) + Ganon (191) - 3 (whoops) = 1136 (Eagle)
- (Peachette (1321) - Toad (31)) / (Warrior (930) - Sun Salutation (927)) = 430 (Vulpix)
- (Mumbo Jumbo (1340) modulo (Dyna Blade (345) - Adam Malkovich (288))) - Louie (800) - X Parasite (285) + Landmaster (392) + Toy-Con Robot (1317) = 653 (Eirika)
- Chao (786) - Ho-Oh (485) + Waluigi (35) = 336 (Nago)
- Lemmy (13)(Claus (590) / Gandrayda (295)) / Polterpup (122) * Marth (610) = 845 (Tortimer)
- Wendy (12) * (Sheik (174) - Squawks (152)) = 264 (Samus)
I probably made at least one mistake somewhere. But if you get the right six Spirits, the first letters of their names will spell the answer, EVENTS.
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