I liked the Reverse Dimensions (ie, Doctor Who) meta a lot -- it fell really fast and naturally after someone noticed the combine-double-letters-to-make-8-by-8 thing.
Just as the hunt ended I was leading a group in starting over from a clean slate on the Combat Sector meta -- the thing that killed that meta was (a) lack of cluing (great we've got these things but no obvious shape to put them in!) and (b) errata! because we are a large team, it was hard to have a canonical 'correct' set of meta data, esp. with physical pieces flying about.
(as a consolation, my reboot strategy was beginning to work-- the correct letters and some words from the real answer were popping out)
I don't think the ordering on that page was significant. Red herring.
I played through the example game of Escape from Zyzzlvaria during the hunt, but never a free-play game. Though I did buy a real copy at the wrapup and fit it somehow into my suitcase :) Funnily enough, I've been planning a sci-fi themed party this weekend for my birthday, so I think I'll set up the phase 1 meta-meta for my friends to work out on my kitchen table.
Yeah, we clearly should have rebooted Combat Sector earlier. Or just generally had more people looking at it. Oh well. There's always things you "should have" done. =) You're also totally right about the errata. We should definitely be better about labelling things with big ERRATA signs next year.
I never really looked at the Dr Who round. I should go back and take a better look at it, once the hunt website comes back up. (I've also never seen Dr Who, but I assume that once you've gotten past the part where you have figure out how doctor and companion puzzles line up, that won't matter any more?)
I liked the Reverse Dimensions (ie, Doctor Who) meta a lot -- it fell really fast and naturally after someone noticed the combine-double-letters-to-make-8-by-8 thing.
Just as the hunt ended I was leading a group in starting over from a clean slate on the Combat Sector meta -- the thing that killed that meta was (a) lack of cluing (great we've got these things but no obvious shape to put them in!) and (b) errata! because we are a large team, it was hard to have a canonical 'correct' set of meta data, esp. with physical pieces flying about.
(as a consolation, my reboot strategy was beginning to work-- the correct letters and some words from the real answer were popping out)
I don't think the ordering on that page was significant. Red herring.
I played through the example game of Escape from Zyzzlvaria during the hunt, but never a free-play game. Though I did buy a real copy at the wrapup and fit it somehow into my suitcase :) Funnily enough, I've been planning a sci-fi themed party this weekend for my birthday, so I think I'll set up the phase 1 meta-meta for my friends to work out on my kitchen table.
--Barak
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I never really looked at the Dr Who round. I should go back and take a better look at it, once the hunt website comes back up. (I've also never seen Dr Who, but I assume that once you've gotten past the part where you have figure out how doctor and companion puzzles line up, that won't matter any more?)
Also: Happy (almost) Birthday!
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