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[Babette]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

What did you all think of the puzzle that lead you to Buzz? The one you did on the train or Mark Twain? We were calling it the advent calendar puzzle, the one you had to cut the windows into the letter grid.

Oh, we loved how we were in second place, and by the time the train came we were even with like 5 teams, one jumping on just before the gate closed. That was a true Amazing Race catchup trick. That was mean because we were on a timed event.

The advent calendar was cool. It took a moment to think it through. We knew right away to fold the whole page in half. It still took a minute to actually tear vs. trying to fold the lines to make one of those little elementary school "pick a number/favorite color/who do you like?" games. Clever!

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

What did you all think of the puzzle that lead you to Buzz? The one you did on the train or Mark Twain? We were calling it the advent calendar puzzle, the one you had to cut the windows into the letter grid.

Don't get me started, Alex. If you have the materials, please go back and read the instructions and follow them precisely. I believe you would never be able to solve that puzzle.

But, when we decided that (heh, not for the first time) the wording must be wrong, we had no problem ... and the puzzle was the most fun.




edited to add:

Although .... we, too, somehow got thru quest one with - apparently - the wrong answers, so the advent puzzle was a bit of a mess until we realized that and did some further experimenting.

In a game where I found it constantly possible to get to the next stage without correct answers to the previous one ... I think it's less than stellar form to make players rely on answers to previous quests in a new quest.

In this particular case, it wasn't like we automatically proceeded to the next step ... an MA staffer told us we got the Main Street quest answer correct ... and so it's sort of unfortunate that we somehow got the correct answer with all the wrong pieces. But, having been "blessed" officially, it took a loooooong time to second-guess ourselves.


Bah.



that was for CP

[Not Afraid]

I have no complaints about the locker quest, but we (by we, I mean Brad) got it right away. It was an absolute breeze and a real high. But, I can completely see thinking it was a 2d diagram of an arial layout.

The compass thing was just no fun for us. We couldn't get good readings no matter what method we tried (and we had another compass to work with). That may have just been operator error, but we wern't even CLOSE with the phone location and we scrambled through quite a few "possible" stores for the Walt pictures before giving up and just dialing random possibilities. (Apologies to the people who answered at the wrong number.)

Originally Posted by ALEX

Lisa and Chris, so far as I know the umbrellas were in place until 4:00 p.m. Is it possible you just didn't see them?

Of course that's a possibility. One umbrella was spotted but the word "bloom" completely mislead us. Maybe there is a connection between the word "bloom" and the word "umbrella" that I'm just not getting, but it completely stumped us.

I still love the game, though. But, somehow, we just seem to keep getting worse at it rather than better. What's up with that?

[innerSpaceman]

And here I was thinking it was Global Warming. Silly me.



Oh, and no kidding ... my teammate cannot wear a wristwatch because of her wacky magnetic field. Watches freak out within moments of being in range of her. I would not be at all surprised if more than human error was at work in our compass disaster (human freakery being the other component).

And, hahaha, we started dialing random phone numbers, too. I hope we didnt' bother any of the same people!

[NirvanaMan]

Today was much hotter, so let's be thankful it wasn't today.

[€uroMeinke]

So, did anyone here do the photo-quest thing? It sounded cool at least conceptually.

[Not Afraid]

We didn't have any problem with the "advent" puzzle. I'm just glad someone with better eyes saw the date on the paddle boat, or we would've been screwed.

Fej asked m earlier today if we chose Train or Twain. The Twain wasn't running when we got there, so we made the obvious decision. Did anyone choose Twain?


I loved having our little "lunch break" in the Tiki Room. It was a perfect time to get out our various baggies of protein-rich goodies and renew our energy - not to mention cool off.

[FEJ]

Having beta-tested the Invitational, I knew it was going to be tough and possibly put some who were more accustomed to the regular format. It relied more on puzzles, and not as much on Disney knowledge. The compasses gave me trouble also. I think I have a electromagnetic disturbance field around me. I really enjoyed it and wish I could have joined my original team The clocks were pretty easy for our test team.

[Babette]

Originally Posted by FEJ

I really enjoyed it and wish I could have joined my original team The clocks were pretty easy for our test team.

Love ya', bro! The clocks were easy but we didn't read carefully at first and found like four before we realized we needed to be recording the time! The clock was a ticking when we had to revisit each location. (hee hee, I punny)

[NirvanaMan]

Advent calendar was relatively easy..but quirky and fun. I could see it being a nightmare if you screwed up though!