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Unanagrammed Liboncatipu placed SECOND!!!!!! Holy CRAP!
I'm a bit too tired to talk about it right now -- while I guess I slept around 2-3 hours today in the process of taking several impromptu 15-minute naps, I have largely been awake for the last 38 hours...
BUT, Liboncatipu placed second at Puzzle Hunt. Out of 84 teams. SERIOUSLY. We actually got to go on stage and get photographed and they gave us little Puzzlehaunt! second place trophy plaques to take home with us! Holy shit! ScruBBers pretty much had run away with the hunt fairly early on so we just hoped to place second -- and we did, though we didn't actually solve the final puzzle, we were with it at 5pm when the time ended.
I felt bad because I was kicking a ton of puzzle ass for the first half of the hunt -- seriously had my hands in a good portion of puzzles we solved, whether I did them entirely or just stepped in for a bridging step. At the debriefing I was even counting and was a primary solver in something like 11 out of the first 50 puzzles we got... which is a really good involvement rate. But I can't remember a damn thing I really contributed to the final set of puzzles, beyond doing half of a board scramble with a few other people, and walking to some buildings to do some physical puzzle searches (where I ended up falling asleep anyway). After about 8am I ended up falling asleep sporadically for about 15 minutes every now and then when I wasn't actively doing something, which made me a very bad puzzler.
It was a seriously overwhelming weekend in a lot of ways, mostly good. Sigh. I'm sad to leave Seattle again.
Anyway, I should probably write more when I can actually sit at my keyboard for more than 3-4 minutes without wanting to just fall over.
BUT, Liboncatipu placed second at Puzzle Hunt. Out of 84 teams. SERIOUSLY. We actually got to go on stage and get photographed and they gave us little Puzzlehaunt! second place trophy plaques to take home with us! Holy shit! ScruBBers pretty much had run away with the hunt fairly early on so we just hoped to place second -- and we did, though we didn't actually solve the final puzzle, we were with it at 5pm when the time ended.
I felt bad because I was kicking a ton of puzzle ass for the first half of the hunt -- seriously had my hands in a good portion of puzzles we solved, whether I did them entirely or just stepped in for a bridging step. At the debriefing I was even counting and was a primary solver in something like 11 out of the first 50 puzzles we got... which is a really good involvement rate. But I can't remember a damn thing I really contributed to the final set of puzzles, beyond doing half of a board scramble with a few other people, and walking to some buildings to do some physical puzzle searches (where I ended up falling asleep anyway). After about 8am I ended up falling asleep sporadically for about 15 minutes every now and then when I wasn't actively doing something, which made me a very bad puzzler.
It was a seriously overwhelming weekend in a lot of ways, mostly good. Sigh. I'm sad to leave Seattle again.
Anyway, I should probably write more when I can actually sit at my keyboard for more than 3-4 minutes without wanting to just fall over.
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