Puzzle Hunt This weekend was a special event:
googol Organized by Googlers was this event for non-Googlers accessible, however, had 10-12 members per team A minimum of 4 persons from Google, because the event was held on the campus. I was a member of the team e ^ x, consisting of about 10 Interns and a FT. Together we have tried to stand up against the other 20 teams, but have failed miserably, at least in comparison :-)
Saturday mornings at 8:30, each team was able to pick his starting materials, and by 9 clock went off: We were given T Domino-shirts and a set of numbers, numbers and symbols on the back, and that's it then, if I remember correctly. Although the T-shirts can be worn, this was not their real sense, at least not yet: On the back was just a printed list of loose words. This riddle had to be solved. The dominoes would probably tell us something, just gabs also help any description. From then on it went: It was a mystery solved, we got a solution word that you were typing on a website had, and if it was right, you may unlock more puzzles over and over again. The bandwidth of the puzzle was enormous drive
word properties, mathematics, snakes, Sudoku, Dominoes, logic quiz, crossword puzzles, word games, music, games, videos, Bike, Flipper (with patched ROM) play, RGB values, Welsh Cheese (Pantygawn), Euler (the old CH-10-franc note appeared even!), Telephone numbers, Morse code for domain names, SI units, semaphores (optical signal transmission), the phonetic alphabet, ASCII, airport symbols, letters, frequencies, programming, GZIP and BZIP, PDFs and PPTs with hidden clues, and 1000 more things :-)
Each team was assigned a meeting room for the weekend, so that all teams had a good working environment. From Saturday morning at 9 clock so we were all on the puzzle until Sunday evening at 5 clock. Everyone has just brought some point soon the needed sleep, and then we went on, as I have about 8-11 Clock on Sunday morning somewhere in an armchair brought my 3 hours sleep, then we went back to work :-)
was crazy how quickly some teams were as follows: On Sunday at 7AM the first team was completely finished, while our team at 5PM just 75% or so :-) had
The puzzles in general we can say this: There was never eingentlich said what needed to be done, or what was asked, which was part of the puzzle, such as with the T-shirt from the top. The T-shirt wars like this: The words were arranged in nine rows, each with several words per line. Then was to construct from one line of words a new word. In one case, the hies simple that you the first letter of each could take the word. In another case, was had to take to the silent letters, and in another case we had to find the letter that you add the word, so there was a new word. If you've finally recognized for all nine lines of the system and applied, had been at the end of nine new words (before there were nine rows). But what now? In this case it was simple: on every word again, the pattern had to be applied, as was the line from the floor. This then gave a further nine new letters, which were then the solution. Remember: This was the first puzzle and correspondingly simple.
is typical of this puzzle is that after a step is not ready yet, but the same must apply more than once. And since you do not even know if you are on the right track (there's not always words in the intermediate steps!), Which is sometimes quite difficult.
be tiring So also scarce 36h puzzle at a time can, this was but a thoroughly brilliant weekend, but now I need a weekend :-)
nuit Bonne!
PS: The puzzles should be published, I'll post the link here then. Anyone interested in the meantime it will get in touch with me, I can gladly give him a taste :-)
PPS: I knew that until now not in this form, but here it seems quite common to be that there should be with us too!
PPPS: The geologist had dug in the beach volleyball field for stones :-)
