MouseAdventure

[Prudence]

BT is contemplating participating in the spring. Mwahahaha!

[BarTopDancer]

Is the time breakdown posted anywhere? I'm curious if we got any other penalities besides the missing clocks.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

Is the time breakdown posted anywhere? I'm curious if we got any other penalities besides the missing clocks.

There's no chart yet - I hope they post it soon.

[Alex]

I don't think Adrienne is planning to post the detailed breakdowns beyond the final adjusted scores. If you interested, email her and ask about it.

I don't know the details of the Brother Bear time penalties or the amount but I do know they had penalties beyond the clocks at the end (I never did see that quest in a completed state so I don't know what it was about or how the penalties played into it.

[innerSpaceman]

ok, how could the hint not have helped? What was the hint?

Frankly, for using Roadside Assistance, I would expect more than a sly hint. We got that for free on that very same quest from nearly staffers. If we had used the official Roadside Assist, I would have expected much, much more.


(Oh, and when we did try to use our Roadside Assist, it was refused, and we were given EXPLICIT help gratis ... on a quest which I have to imagine the staff itself knew was poorly worded.)

[Stan4dSteph]

My understanding of Roadside Assistance was that you were permitted to ask 5 yes/no questions at MA Central. It's possible that the answers to those would not help you get any closer if you weren't able to narrow in within your question limit. I never staffed MA Central, so I didn't see it in action.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

ok, how could the hint not have helped? What was the hint?

As Steph said, we got to ask 5 yes/no questions. I don't remember all 5 of the questions, but we left with the following information: Somewhere along Main Street, inside, not an attraction, not visible from outside.

So, this is where the never get lockers really comes into play. It wasn't just a matter of not recognizing what it was...the locker room was entirely out of our consciousness as a place on Main Street. Never went in, never glanced that way, never acknowledged it at all. Complete blind spot. Total mental lapse that cost us the game. So after fruitlessly checking every single indoor area of Main Street other that the one we needed...yes, we had to give up a second time and ask for the answer.

[innerSpaceman]

bummer.


yeah, the game was stacked - - in certain ways. I kinda feel like the Disneyland-specific ones are fair game, and the other kinds grrr-compasses-grrr are poor sport.

F'rinstance, like I mentioned earlier, zapppop's team had an amazing edge - - killer Buzz Lightyear player and they didn't have to sit through the Tiki Room at all. I think that kind of advantage, as well as any corrresponding disadvantage, is appropriate to a Disneyland game.


I'm sorry you got tricked up, and I continue to hate the all-or-nothiningness of Mad Scramble-types. But I'd hope you'd feel better if the foul-up was on Disneyland expertise rather than, say, a magnetic device grrrrrrrCompass........

[Prudence]

I've only done one of these, so I don't have the best perspective, but I don't think I'd hate the compass thing in the formats where you get points for what you do, but I didn't like it in the all or nothing. I agree that tricky DL questions should be fair game, because I thought that was rather the point. I dunno, my perspective may be warped because we did well with luggage and sucked at compass, but I just didn't like it. I don't know how to articulate it. There's a line in my mind between really really hard puzzle that might take a while and skill that you may or may not have or be able to acquire quickly. I loathe sudokus with a passion and always freeze up when I see one, but eventually I work through it.

Of course, I've receive compass-related scoldings now from both spouse and sibling, so what the heck do I know? Of course, they are respectively former military and a forester, so they have a reason to know.

[RStar]

On the photo Adventure, Quest 2, there was a page 1 of 2 with a page 2 of 2 on the back side. Then there was an unattached page 1 of 1 seperatly. We couldn't figure out what to do with that page because it had no instructions other than circle the correct answers. Then what to do with the info.? It wasn't until later that I realized it was part of quest 2 (Yes, it said quest 2 at the top ).

I'm just wondering if this was this a mistake, or something just to keep us on our toes. I know the Evil Puzzle Makers like to make sure we are paying attention and following instructions !