We have 12 declarations of love in the first part with italicized portions in some parts of the sentences. Looking up these, we discover that they correspond to Disney lyrics. We can find that these are the songs that each lyric is from:
| Lyric | Song | Movie |
|---|
| I have often dreamed of a | Go the Distance | Hercules |
| you'll love me at once | Once Upon A Dream | Sleeping Beauty |
| I wanna be where the people are | Part of Your World | The Little Mermaid |
| so many things to tell her | Can You Feel The Love Tonight | Lion King |
| People down here think I'm crazy but I don't care | Almost There | The Princess and the Frog |
| the birds will sing and wedding bells will ring | Some Day My Prince Will Come | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| all it takes is faith and trust | You Can Fly | Peter Pan |
| Oh, isn't this amazing? | Belle | Beauty and the Beast |
| let's not be too hasty | One Jump Ahead | Aladdin |
| stuck in the same place I've always been | When Will My Life Begin | Tangled |
| if I were truly to be myself | Reflection | Mulan |
| you'll learn things you never knew you never knew | Colors of the Wind | Pocahontas |
If we read the first stylized letter of each declaration, we see the phrase “PLAY GUESS WHO”. From a quick search, we can easily find the Hasbro board game Guess Who?, which we can confirm from noticing that the character board has the same 4 x 6 structure as the Guess Who game boards.
We also notice that the character board is interactive. From clicking around, we realize that this is a matching puzzle and clicking characters with the same silhouette pattern will allow them to permanently stay visible. We end up with the board shown below.
The patterns in these silhouettes match with the patterns we saw in the first letter of the lyric sentences. We also noticed that each lyric matches with two silhouettes, one with a microphone and one with a devil. Reasoning through how this would match with each lyric, it’s reasonable to conclude that the microphone shape is the character who sings the lyric and the devil shape is the villain in that movie. Trying to put these names in the board gives a resulting order that is alphabetical by the character names, which confirms that the following board is correct:
| Aladdin | Ariel | Aurora | Belle | Captain Hook | Dr. Facilier |
| Evil Queen | Gaston | Governor Ratcliffe | Hades | Hercules | Jafar |
| Maleficent | Mother Gothel | Mulan | Peter Pan | Pocahontas | Rapunzel |
| Scar | Shan Yu | Simba | Snow White | Tiana | Ursula |
In the final step of the puzzle, we follow the final flavor text and eliminate the characters (in reading order) based on the descriptions shown. The counts after each description indicate how many characters are being eliminated for having that trait. That yields the following elimination order and the corresponding letters:
| Name | Letter | Elim Reason |
|---|
| Ariel | A | People with reddish hair |
| Hercules | N | People with reddish hair |
| Peter Pan | S | People with reddish hair |
| Dr. Facilier | W | Magical powers |
| Evil Queen | E | Magical powers |
| Hades | R | Magical powers |
| Jafar | I | Magical powers |
| Maleficent | S | Magical powers |
| Rapunzel | K | Magical powers |
| Ursula | I | Magical powers |
| Aladdin | N | Hat wearers |
| Captain Hook | G | Hat wearers |
| Governor Ratcliffe | F | Hat wearers |
| Gaston | R | Bad streak |
| Mother Gothel | O | Bad streak |
| Scar | M | Bad streak |
| Shan Yu | H | Bad streak |
| Aurora | A | Sing and dance with animals |
| Pocahontas | M | Sing and dance with animals |
| Simba | I | Sing and dance with animals |
| Snow White | L | Sing and dance with animals |
| Belle | T | Pulse |
| Mulan | O | Pulse |
| Tiana | N | Pulse |
From the 6 2 4 4 8 → 6 3 enumeration at the bottom and the elimination letter ordering, we can find the phrase ANSWER IS KING FROM HAMILTON (6 2 4 4 8), which yields GEORGE III (6 3).
Authors' Notes
This was very directly inspired by a version of Guess Who I grew up playing that had Disney characters instead of the generic characters. I always enjoyed asking my sister whether or not they had blue skin (sadly Genie ultimately wasn’t included in this puzzle’s version of the game).
Bryce: Some may argue that GEORGE III shouldn’t be your final match because he wears a hat (comically large crown) and has a bad streak (from a colonial American’s point of view). However, it is true that he does not have reddish hair, magical powers, a tendency to sing and dance with animals, or a pulse.
Since Hamilton is on Disney+, George III is now canonically part of the Disney universe too, so the answer is fitting.
