Stories, Observations, and Anecdotes

If we had three cents for every time a Game Controller said the word "three" to a team working on the 3-color cubes, we'd have something like 3^3 dollars.

When team DP Sensation (I think) was freaked out by the creepy numbers station recording around 5am, I offered them this deal: "for a ninety-minute penalty, I'll have the sun rise early so you're not as scared."

-Jeremy Hoffman, Game Control Team

This game required a lot more actual knowledge (aka Google) than most.  Swan lake composer, world leaders, "Pi" director. Possum Lodge.  Good thing our team thrived on knowing random crap.

Also, the clue locations were, across the board, the best I have ever seen for a game.  Too bad we were racing.

Breaking into the Greek Theatre was really fun.  Breaking out not so much.  I think I broke my entire lower body jumping to the ground from a 12-foot wall.  Totally fell on my ass, too.

[Danny on the phone with Jesse] "We've tried all of these things: ______" Jesse to Danny: "One of those sounded promising."  Danny: "Which one?"  Jesse: "Goodbye." [click]

Troy: "Either Shane is doing some kind of morse code or something with his hands, or he's just a really bad actor."

To solve the color cubes, we drove to a parking lot that had lots of light.  We got out and realized that all of the light was yellow, which made the colors of the cubes incomprehensible.  And, of course, rather that move to another location, we stood there using flashlights to create white light to see the difference.

We got to Roble and searched for the clue for a while.  Finally called Game Control only to lead to the realization that no one placed the clue.  Too funny.  Fred came over quickly to deliver it, along with a CD that turned out to be completely blank.  Amazing.  Watching Ethan try to get that thing to play music was probably more entertaining than the content itself would have been.

-Troy Steinmetz, Stanley Fans

Favorite Clues/Things

I loved everything about Eric's Interrogation. Great idea, great execution.

Also, Shane's acting in his video clue was brilliant and inspired.

-Jeremy Hoffman, Game Control Team

[Assassin runs into room, shoots Valyan, and kidnaps Jesse]  Fred: [looks up from dead body]  So....

Typing Tchaikovsky on a phone pad

The Tim Valyan pre-clue

-Troy Steinmetz, Stanley Fans

Least Favorite Clues/Things

It's too bad that the clue at Fort Point was hard to find, forcing us to skip latecoming teams past it. That clue just looked so cool.

We realized too late that we had two "base-N" clues (the 3-color cubes and the ASCII codes on the clock). At least one team complained that they didn't consider it the second time after having used it the first time. This might have been mitigated by the fact that many ASCII look up tables include octal codes, making base-conversion unnecessary.

-Jeremy Hoffman, Game Control Team

Troy: "How the hell are were supposed to combine 'PI' and 'THONSIRE'?"  [30 minutes later] "Oooohhhhhh"

Any time Game Control said, "We'll call you back."

Waiting to download the console

Poems

-Troy Steinmetz, Stanley Fans