Mystifying Map

One letter of the answer comes from each band of colour on the flag.

How many spots are there to hang banners from on the castle?

Label each merlon (the lumps on the castle walls) with the letters A-Z (starting in the top left). This assigns each banner a letter. Read those letters in the order given by the flag to get the regal answer EMPRESS.

The shield, swirl and crossed swords are not relevant to the puzzle.

There is a reason these banners were placed as far away from each other as possible.

If you place the banners next to each other they spell FLEE in capital letters from top to bottom.

The clouds to the left are a hint on how to solve this puzzle.

You need five letters, and each cloud has five clumps of marks.

You can overlap the clouds so that the clumps of black marks spell letters. This spells the volcanic answer FIRES.

Ignore the buildings, they only exist to distract.

You might want to take a step back from your monitor to solve this one.

The roads of the city spell TAR.

Are the labels on the map accurate?

Read from top to bottom.

Each label is missing a letter. The missing letters, from top to bottom, spell RELAY.

You can intereact with this part of the puzzle using your mouse. Try hovering and clicking on letters.

Don't overcomplicate it. Where is the most appropriate place to put an X in each word?

Every answer can have a letter replaced by an X to spell another word. The replaced letters spell MERRY _MAS from top to bottom, which we can complete with another X to get our answer MERRY XMAS (thanks for playing!).

What's beneath each animal face?

Five animals, five letters in the answer. Which letter should you take?

The TIGER, ANT, MOOSE, ELEPHANT and DOG each have some blanks below them to enter their name into. The first letyter of each name is circled. Take those letters in order to get the answer, TAMED.

Each small school of fish helps you acquire one letter of the answer.

This puzzle was inspired by the design of digital clocks.

Each small school of fish tells you which fish to look at to spell the shape of a letter. For example, removing all purple, yellow and green fish leaves fish in the shape of an 's', the letter clued by the first school. Doing this for each school from left to right spells 'sea', so the answer is SEA.

Each row of trees in the lower region gives you one letter of the answer.

You're looking to create the shapes of letters.

Tracing out a path by following each row of trees as direction spells out the shapes of the letters NeST, so the answer is NEST.