LIBONCATIPU REIGNS SUPREME

[dr4b]

Get this. It's almost 7am, and I am at home getting ready to sleep not because we hit a slow puzzling time and I wanted to come take a nap, but BECAUSE WE ACTUALLY FINISHED THE ENTIRETY OF PUZZLEHUNT. We finished 6th out of 72 teams. HOLY SHIT, I've been waiting like three years for this.

This is awesome, now I can nap for a few hours, go back to Redmond just to hang out and play board games or something for a few hours until it's time for closing ceremonies at 6pm.

WOOHOO

WE RULE

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[thanatos47.livejournal.com]

yes, that was me. good memory of the poem.

i did play in iron puzzler. i wrote the paper puzzle with pictures that represented the last names of singers (voted most popular paper puzzle :D). you only aren't allowed to participate on your end. i'm not an employee either. however, if it's against your contract to volunteer for a recruiting event at microsoft then you shouldn't.

[dr4b]

Well, I can't actually get into MS buildings on my own, nor can I get to the east side at 6pm on a weekday anyway. There's nothing in my contract about it, but I always figured that the preparation for these events were done by MS people.

I'm trying to remember the last names of singers... was that one where they were pictures all in one big L shape? I remember the non-paper puzzles a lot better than the paper ones. I do remember there was an L-shaped crossword that we had an awful time with for some reason.

[thanatos47.livejournal.com]

yes, it was in a big L shape, but it was not a crossword puzzle. it was the one where the pictures were rotated to indicate which letter to pull out. there were a couple dozen pictures as i recall.