THE JABBERWOCK

We have some well-known nonsense verse in a typewriter. Teams will quickly notice that the typewriters keys are scrambled.

This should immediately suggest a substitution cipher from a QWERTY keyboard to our nonsense keyboard. Most teams had no trouble remembering the layout of a normal keyboard and figuring out the cipher. A number of people later remembered they had such keyboards on their phones.

Once you've found the mapping between keyboards, there are two ways to apply it. Does an "A" in the message correspond to an "A" on this keyboard and a "B" on a normal one or an "A" on a normal one and an "S" on this one? Also, do we translate all the letters? Some are capitalized, let's try decoding those first. Pretty soon we get:

SIXLETTERSDECAPITATE

Which points us to our answer, "behead". Fairly fitting for the Jabberwock, and a frequent theme in the Alice books. And at this point, we've pretty clearly established a pattern among the answers.

(This puzzle was invented for this game. It was originally planned to use an actual typewriter, but we didn't find a pretty one we could mangle!)