For his 8th birthday party, David wanted a
Portal themed birthday party, including some kind of puzzle solving in order to find the cake. So, with some invaluable help from
kdavoli and
klazarus, I made up some "puzzles" that eventually led to the cake.
You can look at the puzzles I made up on
this page. The last puzzle involved one of the great pasttimes of rowdy 8-year-olds: popping balloons to find clues hidden inside. They were ultimately successful in finding the cake. It was pretty exhausting for me, but a lot of fun, too. David reported to me later that it was "even more fun than he had imagined it would be" so I'll call that a smashing success.