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Act II, Scene 2

Red Green Bible

Solution: ISHIHARA


This puzzle features 19 books with hexadecimal RGB colour codes on the covers. Filling in the colours gives:

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Book #8 might be particularly familiar to medical students as the famous Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine. In fact, all of these books are Oxford Handbooks, the full list of which can be found at the publisher's website.

The question mark on each book cover correspond to the latest edition of that book (as listed on the publisher's website in 2023). We use this number to index into the subject of its book. If there is no number on the cover, that's because the book in question is in its 1st edition, and we use 1 as the number.

Title (Oxford Handbook of ...) Edition Extracted Letter
PSYCHIATRY 4 C
ONCOLOGY 4 O
PALLIATIVE CARE 3 L
ENDOCRINOLOGY AND DIABETES 4 O
RHEUMATOLOGY 4 U
GENERAL PRACTICE 5 R
ACUTE MEDICINE 4 T
CLINICAL MEDICINE 10 E
SLEEP MEDICINE 1 S
OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY 4 T
SPORT AND EXERCISE MEDICINE 2 P
DIALYSIS 4 L
CARDIOLOGY 2 A
OPHTHALMOLOGY 4 T
CLINICAL SPECIALTIES 11 E
GENITOURINARY MEDICINE HIV AND SEXUAL HEALTH 3 N
CLINICAL DENTISTRY 7 A
MEDICAL SCHOOL 1 M
NEUROLOGY 2 E

The extracted letters spell COLOUR TEST PLATE NAME, referring to the ISHIHARA plates.