Yoruichi-san
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Nicely done! The "connect the dots" part was the one that threw me for awhile, since I'm apparently not very good at recognizing what random shapes are suppose to look like
, but you guys breezed right through that.Now we can move on to where the real fun begins...
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contact framm
Contact Bmad
Framm and BMAD contact at 10:46.
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The first pandemic round has concluded. Final status and vaccine count:
1) phil1882 (normal+1)
2) Panther (normal+3)
3) BMAD (normal+2)
4) Framm (infected+1)
5) Brainy (normal+0)
6) Flamebirde (infected+0)The second pandemic round starts now, ends 9pm CST 7/20.
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contact panther
Contact Phil
Phil and Panther contact at 7:22.
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(I found this in the archives, thought it was really cute...)Freaking puzzles, nowadays. Oh, they might look nice, but deepdown... they all have fundamentally the same things going on.produce a cryptic clue at first, of an ungraceful ungulateorder words alphabetically.keep putting in red herrings to pad out the puzzle even when thereare only about five things you've got to findendlessly drone on with reams of boring text where it is impossible totell what's suppose to be the puzzle and what's supposed to be aclue and what is in there because someone is utterly determned tohave a big rant about something they dislike and half the time theyhaven't spellchecked the blasted thig so you don't know whether themistakes are deliberate or not, until they release errata one hourinto the competition by which point some smart alec has solved itbecause it's able to be reverse engineered from the metapuzzlerandomly reorder instructions so the puzzle isn't trivialhave a set of words with 'precisely' the same lengthinitially spell out a clue.generate a word by joining the dots, relying on a fiXed width fonthide words, using capital lettersconvert letters to numbers,and convert numbers to lettersrequire you to generate numbers from patterns in number sequences eventhough the sample size is too small and it would be totally logicalto work out the next number but for some arbitrary reason you have tocalculate the difference.demand that you solve all the first stage clues even when one ofthem is much harder than the others and the answer is short cuttableusing other parts anyway.
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contact panther contact framm
Contact Phil
Contact Flame
Phil and Framm contact at 12:53.
Flame and Framm contact at 12:53.
Edit: fixing order
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(...b/c my mind tends to jump to some abstract mathematical principle *whistling*)
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Making good progress on the first step. The rest of the hints from the site aren't very helpful, so here's one of my own:
This is marked "easy", so the second step is pretty upfront
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What are we supposed to do? Or is that part of the problem?
Yes.
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Tally:
Infected: 1
Normal: 5
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Another puzzle from that Australian site, this time more mathy:
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BMAD is on the right track, but you can get more info from the first weighing
.You can get info on all three colors in the first weighing, which I think is the key.
First weigh R1B1 vs R2W2.
If "=", R1=W2, B1=R2, so then weigh R1 vs R2 or B1 vs W2 (or B2 vs W1).
If "<", R1<R2, B1</=W2 (that's suppose to be 'less than or equal to'), so then weigh B1W2 vs B2W1. If "=", W2>B1. If "<", B1<B2, W1>W2. If ">", B1>B2, W1<W2.
Similarly, if ">", R1>R2, B1>/=W2, so then weigh B1W2 vs B2W1. If "=", W2<B1. If "<", B1<B2, W1>W2. If ">", B1>B2, W1<W2.
Thanks, bon-chan
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To be clear: a pandemic round lasts 3 days (72 hours), a tally is done every 24 hours. Players may contact with each other as many times as they wish, but further contacts with the same player in the same round will not generate additional vaccines.
contact framm
Contact BMAD
BMAD and Framm contact at 10:23.
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Sure, PM me...(I think there's a rule against posting links to other puzzle sites here)...but be forewarned: "Joe Nobody" is marked "easy"...most of the puzzles are the 'creative thinking' type of puzzles with multiple steps that I like to make and
somea lot of the puzzles there make my puzzles look easy...and if you've noted the number of unsolved puzzles I have lying around here, you can deduce that that's not easy ;PAlso, if anyone is interested in joining our team, especially if you're good at 'cryptic crossword' type puzzles, PM me
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Tally:
Infected: 1
Normal: 5
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Good progress
.This is from the archives of a puzzle competition that I was browsing (and my friend and I just signed up for...starts next week...I'm super-stoked
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Contact BMAD
Contact Framm
Framm and BMAD contact at 07:37
Contact Panther
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Check status
Panther and BMAD contact at 07:46
Contact Panther
Also only once per 24 hours can you check your status.
Contact Framm
Framm and Panther contact at 09:08.
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A clarification: the player's total will be the sum of on the number of vaccines they end each pandemic round with.
Thank you.
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To clarify, each day (24 hour period) will officially end at 9pm CST.
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Apologies, one part that was accidentally omitted (added in italics):
When a normal player contacts another normal player, they will create a vaccine, and become 'normal+1', further contacts with the same player in that pandemic round will not produce more vaccines.
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Round 6
Pandemic Game
There will be 3 pandemic rounds, each will last 3 days (72 hours).
At the beginning of each pandemic round, one player will be randomly chosen to be 'infected'. The rest of the players will be 'normal'. After each day (24 hours), it will be announced how many players are infected.
Players may check whether they are 'normal' or 'infected' once every day (24 hours), by posting "Check status" on this game thread. They will be PMed their status as of the time stamp that they posted.
Players may choose to 'contact' each other via this game thread by both posting "Contact with [player name]". This does not have to be done simultaneously but it will not be counted until both players post.
When a normal player contacts another normal player, they will create a vaccine, and become 'normal+1', if they contact another normal player, they become 'normal+2', and so on and so forth. When an infected player contacts a normal player, the normal player becomes infected. If an infected player contacts a player with vaccines, they use up 1 vaccine and become normal. I.e. if player A 'normal+3' contacts with player B 'infected', player A becomes 'infected+2' and player B becomes 'normal'. An infected player with vaccines may use up 1 vaccine to cure themselves and become normal by posting "Activate" on this game thread.
At the end of each pandemic round, the ending status and number of vaccines of each player will be announced.
At the end of all 3 pandemic rounds, the number of vaccines each player created will be totaled. For each vaccine a player has above the mean, they will be awarded 100mil BD$, for each vaccine below, they will incur a debt of 100mil BD$. If the mean is not an integer, partial awards/debts will be allocated, rounding to the nearest mil BD$.
As always, players are free to PM each other (please CC me). The first pandemic round starts now and will end at 9pm CST on Wednesday 7/17.
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Good start
.The site had some hints...
What a lazy puzzle title; it's just the main character's name.
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We at the LGTO appreciate the heads-up. If you fail to check in, it should not be too disruptive this round, but you will probably lose
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