Tom 7 Radar: Now Picnic Activate!

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Now Picnic Activate! (26 Mar 2005 at 08:52)

It's Puzzlestorm 2005! Despite having only 10 hours of notice (they just told us last night at midnight that it was going to be today), we've arranged a great team, called Now Picnic, which will win puzzlestorm once and for all!

Chart our progress on the scoreboard...

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Tom 7 (lolo.wv.cc.cmu.edu) – 03.26.05 18:43:18

Good band names generated during brute force search for answers to "fill in the blanks":

come spy in
i hack pops
i pinch i do
income pit
non bolder
non bopper
nun pepsin
once i bold
only i bold
ooh snider
poncho dip
ski sniper
sky or deli
sun slider

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jcreed (pool-151-201-133-214.pitt.east.verizon.net) – 03.26.05 22:03:01

I kind of like "income deli" and "sky or deli" for its unusual grammatical structure for a band name.

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jcreed (pool-151-201-133-214.pitt.east.verizon.net) – 03.26.05 22:03:55

"they might be giants" is pretty unusual in being an entire sentence. maybe I should start a band called "I wonder what happens if I push this button?"

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Hock (res211.mesls.org) – 03.27.05 02:31:18

I can't figure it out. Who won?

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Tom 7 (h-67-101-139-227.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) – 03.27.05 09:54:39

(I guess they never updated the final scoreboard!)

We came in third. Another team solved 8 puzzles, but got more "points" from solving early. The first place team solved the meta-puzzle.. we were ignoring it, but eventually all the extensions caught up with us. Anyway, I'm pretty happy with the result.

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