Time | Event |
Friday | |
12:20pm | Boss gets shot |
12:33 | First ACME phone call |
12:55 |
First answer called in by Acronym (1.5, incorrect) |
1:12 | First correct answer called in by IHTFP (1.5) |
2:22 | Setec happy with 2 bigrams being incorrect |
3:27 | Blatantly Obscene gets "Take the Red Pill" |
3:42 | Pturnips calls to ask whether "ED" is "interesting" |
3:45 | Acronym gets Round 1 Metapuzzle |
Saturday |
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12:15am | "But we don't knoww where to find the pharmacy...." |
6:07 | Blatantly Obscene calls in first trained answer |
6:19 | Lance: "Why do we have pictures of teens dry-humping?" [Pulls aside scarf, realizes it's Twister] |
7:41 | Pturnips trains an answer |
1:55pm | Random's sculpture won't fit thru any door |
2:30 | Acronym solves Round 2 Meta |
Sunday | |
12:01am | Fermat says WIK Windows is the most exciting puzzle ever! |
1:00pm-ish | Acme hints (e-mail) line opens |
1:30 | "I might be going over there and learning you like your mother. Because clearly, your mother didn't give you enough learning." -- Minister of Inhospitality, to Kappa Sig for being idiots |
1:36 | "How you be getting the answer "Jive"?" --same as above |
3:09 | "We've been reduced from trying to understand your puzzles to trying to understand your hints, and we don't think it's getting any better." -- Snafu Fans |
5:00ish | "consultants" dispatched to top 6 (and then 8) teams |
9:27 | Setec solves the last remaining unsolved M-puzzle (6.6, Time's a Wastin') |
9:40ish | "NO BACKSOLVING, YOU BASTARDS. THAT'S MY PUZZLE!!! -- Skuld, to No Fkernel about WIK Kiaido, answering "drop acid" and explaining they "backsolved" to get it. [BTW, Denis & Matt S. wrote the puzzle.... :^) ] |
9:43 | NoFK calls back, "Were we right?" Skuld screams, "NO!" |
10:30 | Lance is consulting at Acronym. They realize Squiggles is the International Phonetic Alphabet; a notable facial expression is explained as "That's my brain leaving out the back door while my face distracts you." |
Monday | |
2:10am | Kappa Sig! calls in Meta Meta (does not have round 5 meta) |
5:30 | Blatantly Obscene calls in "Be Noisy" for metameta |
5:35 | Blatantly Obscene calls in Matches |
6:04 | Kappa Sig would like to Dodge Bullets |
7:25 | Kappa Sig calls, searching, finds the coin |