P.I.HUNT 5/All Work And No Play

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Spoiler warning: Complete answer list

The answers to the individual puzzles relevant to this meta (as confirmed by Jack during the event) are shown below:

• Makes, Jack, A, Dull - HALF BROTHER
• BOY ALL! - WALKER
• Work And - ALL STARS
• Nº Play - RACEWAY
• Makes - BLOOD CELLS
• Jack A** - PROFANITY
• Dull Boy - PICTURE BOOKS

Spoiler warning: Solution follows

Each of the answers feeding into this meta have lengths increasing from 6 to 13 letters, and contain exactly five letters in the set of WORK PLAY. The meta indicates the word WORK in black and PLAY in white, and so interpreting these as letters as binary (black letters = 1, white letters = 0) allows STALL and GO to be spelled out:

Puzzle	Answer	Binary substring	Letter
BOY ALL!	WALKER	10011	S
Nº Play	RACEWAY	10100	T
Work And	ALLSTARS	00001	A
Jack A**	PROFANITY	01100	L
Makes	BLOODCELLS	01100	L
Makes, Jack, A, Dull	HALFBROTHER	00111	G
Dull Boy	PICTUREBOOKS	01111	O

These words can slot into the familiar fiver word phrase as indicated in the meta to make the modified phrase as an answer to "What should Jack do if he's gone crazy from work?": STALL WORK AND GO PLAY.