Puzzle Hunt topic

Simon · September 09, 2012, 06:53:28 AM

Our puzzle team The Suicidal Rodents takes part in regular puzzle competitions.

Team board http://thesuicidalrodents.proboards.com/" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">thesuicidalrodents.proboards.com

Puzzle hunt websites (these redirect automatically to the latest contest):
CiSRA http://puzzle.cisra.com.au/" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">puzzle.cisra.com.au
ΣUMS http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/sums/puzzlehunt" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/sums/puzzlehunt
MUMS http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~mums/puzzlehunt" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~mums/puzzlehunt

We are going to participate in the http://puzzle.cisra.com.au/" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">Cisra Puzzle Contest 2012. This discussion originated in http://www.lemmingsforums.com/index.php?topic=533.msg14703#msg14703" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">Logic Puzzles, but we should make a separate thread for this.

The team is Insane Steve, geoo, Proxima, and me. However, unofficial helpers are fine, and we aren't eligible for winning a physical prize anyway. If you're into solving amazingly hard puzzles without instructions, but with a lot of lateral thinking, feel free to participate.

http://thesuicidalrodents.proboards.com/index.cgi" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">Our private discussion forum for solution ideas
http://puzzle.cisra.com.au/teamstats.php?team=The+Suicidal+Rodents" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">Our team's page (The Suicidal Rodents)
http://puzzle.cisra.com.au/2011/puzzles.html" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">Example puzzles from the 2011 round
http://puzzle.cisra.com.au/news.xml" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">The site's RSS feed

-- Simon

ccexplore · September 09, 2012, 08:07:00 AM

http://www.lemmingsforums.com/index.php?topic=670.msg14776#msg14776">Quote from: Simon on 2012-09-09 00:53:28

Steve will register the team shortly, and we need a team name. I suggest "Lemmings Forums" or "lemmingsforums.com", but the former looks less spammy. ;-)

Any chance you guys may go for something less bland?

http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/undecided.gif" alt=":-\" title="Undecided" class="smiley" /> "The spinning hamsters", "The Capybaras", even "asdfasdf" seem more fun and interesting by comparison.

http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/tongue.gif" alt=":P" title="Tongue" class="smiley" /> C'mon, show us some lateral thinking there!

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Proxima · September 09, 2012, 12:37:14 PM

How 'bout The Suicidal Rodents? Sounds like a good name for a rock band

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geoo · September 09, 2012, 01:57:46 PM

Yeah, I was thinking it should be something involving rodents (and not just Lemmings Forum) as well.
The Spinning Hamsters and The Suicidal Rodents are both very good suggestions.

You can sign me up as Carl P. Bara, with my usual e-mail address.
(And Simon should sign up as Paul Q. Pine

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chaos_defrost · September 09, 2012, 08:57:50 PM

I like "The Suicidal Rodents" hahaha, goes rather well with us being on the Lemmings boards.

I'll be registering shortly, I'll need a name you'll go by and an e-mail for you (if you don't want it in public just PM it to me). Your name should probably look at least semi-believable (So something like Carl P. Bara is excellent, but @ Simon you're probably going to need to give some kind of last name).

Also looking at the rules a bit better teams are limited to 4, but teams can have "unofficial helpers" or something, so if anyone else wants to offer advice on a puzzle it looks like they definitely still can.

EDIT: Actually just need a last name of some sort for Simon and confirmation on The Suicidal Rodents as a team name and we're good for registration, I got everything else

Simon · September 09, 2012, 10:01:10 PM

I'm all for Spinning Hamsters as the name, but Suicidal Rodents is good too. I always deem that too cliché, but for non-Lemmings people it's probably a good funny name.

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-- Simon

chaos_defrost · September 09, 2012, 10:24:01 PM

I'm fine with Spinning Hamsters also, actually, and it may not be the greatest idea to reference suicide in a puzzle team name, I don't know.

Proxima · September 09, 2012, 11:16:38 PM

Well, I'm against that, because I find the Hamster very annoying

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chaos_defrost · September 10, 2012, 01:21:42 AM

In that case it seems Suicidal Rodents is the most agreed upon name, so unless there's any real objections I'll go with that. I'll probably set up the team either later today or tomorrow.

chaos_defrost · September 10, 2012, 05:32:30 AM

Ok, registered the team "The Suicidal Rodents". If you had your name with a middle initial I left it out for the purpose of the competition.

Since it'd probably be a bad idea to leave our though processes searchable by Google or whatever, it might not be a bad idea to set up a free message board of some kind for this.

chaos_defrost · September 19, 2012, 02:34:31 AM

Bumping this because the date of the first puzzle set's release is next Monday, September 24th, at 2 pm GMT. This gives us about a week to work the first 4 puzzles, but after we'd only have a day for each set the following week for full marks on a problem.

I'll be setting up a board for us soon.

geoo · September 24, 2012, 03:55:22 AM

Puzzles are out now: http://puzzle.cisra.com.au/puzzles.php" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">http://puzzle.cisra.com.au/puzzles.php

I'll probably be too busy to look at them until Wednesday though.

chaos_defrost · September 24, 2012, 04:41:02 AM

http://www.lemmingsforums.com/index.php?topic=670.msg14925#msg14925">Quote from: geoo on 2012-09-23 21:55:22

Puzzles are out now: http://puzzle.cisra.com.au/puzzles.php" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">http://puzzle.cisra.com.au/puzzles.php

I'll probably be too busy to look at them until Wednesday though.

It's fine, I will too actually. We have a week for the first set, at least. I'll be setting up the board for discussion now. If anyone else wants to join and offer suggestions I don't see why not, I mean they have rules for "unofficial helpers" and such on the rules so there's not really strict "only 4 people EVER" rule.

EDIT: http://thesuicidalrodents.proboards.com/index.cgi" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">http://thesuicidalrodents.proboards.com/index.cgi is the discussion board. You'll need to register to view threads and stuff.

ccexplore · September 24, 2012, 07:33:11 AM

Good luck!

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chaos_defrost · September 24, 2012, 08:09:03 AM

Just from a glance I'm having a harder time with 1a than I think I should, 1b looks like the sort of thing I'm usually pretty good at but I'm too tired to give it a serious look, and 1c and 1d look more like other people's fortes

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