Ah, puzzles

[tahnan]

Why can't I get a job solving puzzles all day? I suppose I have one, in some sense, but. Saxikath and I are now in fifth place in the CiSRA puzzle competition, not that we're competing for anything, but they're good puzzles. We're "Just a Couple of Hacks" (because Tah + Saxi = Taxi, taxis are hacks, get it?), and have gotten the exalted position

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[uncanny_npl]

So cool that you like solving puzzles. As it happens--and you'll never believe this--I do too! I took a look at the some of the CiSRA puzzles, and they really do look like fun. Only trouble is that I can't make head or tail of most of them. Hope that isn't a portent of how my brain will work at the con extravaganza, or I'll be relegated to my usual--though all-important, people assure me--contributions: cheerleading, sharpening pencils, and racing up to the front of the room with my team's answers.

[nplloquacious]

Can I be on your team Uncanny? ;-)

[uncanny_npl]

I would be honored to have you!

[tahnan]

Well, the CiSRA puzzles are designed to take teams of four students between 24 hours and a week, so I don't think you should feel bad if you can't solve them.

[uncanny_npl]

Yeah, that's why I love being on a team--because when I looked through these puzzles, I could get *some* things, and had an inkling about how other things might be approached, and thought maybe I could contribute in some small--but no doubt *critical*--way to a team effort. My worry, of course, is that the things *I* can get are so obvious that everybody else will get them too, but in my experience that's not always true. There's usually *some* puzzle that I can crack first. (At the very least, they can just hand me the "Paint by Numbers" or the Sudoku.) This year, I'm hoping for a trivia puzzle about either Oscar winners, Tony-award-winning musicals, or countries of the world, because I've been repeatedly Sporcle-ing those categories, and am--not to brag, but--getting pretty good at them. Anyway, whatever happens, I can't wait to be there!