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For any of you who didn’t play in the Power Puzzle game or didn’t play in the puzzle competition at all, here’s your chance to experience a little of what the Power Puzzlers did. Below you will find out how to play each of five different games they took part in over the competition.

See if you can do better than them! Or just have fun or something. If any of you Power Puzzlers want to go back and attempt questions in Jeopardy or the Derby you hadn’t already, knock yourself out.

Scattergories — Plays like regular Scattergories only with all 3 rounds at once. To get the instructions on how to get started send an email to adobery@gmail.com with the subject of “scattergories”

Jeopardy — Similar to regular Jeopardy only with puzzle categories like some in the Pure puzzle game. Answer 10 questions…or is that question 10 answers? Send an email to adobery@gmail.com with the subject of “jeopardy” to get instructions.

Scrabble — You are presented with boards with letters already in play. Your goal is to create the highest scoring word you can with the racks you are presented. Send an email to adobery@gmail.com with the subject of “scrabble” to get instructions.

$20,000 Pyramid — In this game the Power Puzzlers had to provide clues to categories, then turn around and guess their opponents’. You only have to do the guessing. Send an email to adobery@gmail.com with the subject of “pyramid” to get instructions.

Puzzle Derby — My personal favorite. Plays like a Home Run Derby. Answer questions from various puzzle categories but choose your own difficulty level from Single, Double, Triple and HR. Whoever tallies the most bases after 10 pitches wins. Careful though, the questions get harder the bigger the hit you go for. Once you record 3 outs, your derby is over. Send an email to adobery@gmail.com with the subject of “derby” to get instructions.

First of all, I want to say thank you to everyone who played. Thank you for enduring my mistakes, my frequent update emails and my ridiculously long directions for the power games.

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Before the week started, I really loved this puzzle. Then I decided to make it a titch harder and everything blew up. For those who did not figure the theme out, the answer to 9 down was “Periodic Table”. Every intersection square held an elemental abbreviation from the periodic table of elements. Once you were able to figure out the theme, the clues were pretty straight forward.

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Here we are. One week left. Don’t cry, just puzzle. Since we’re a day behind, puzzles will be due next Monday.

Now I give you…the Pièce de résistance! (that means last puzzle, right?)

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For anyone who wants to fill the answers in a spreadsheet (I wasn’t able to get the PDF ready for that), I have shared the doc in google docs with you or here is a link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoZ5pH2eA1q1dEhMQ0xYU25ldGlvNGZ3YzhqWkh4aUE#gid=0

You can either download it or make a copy in your google docs to work on I think.

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Time to stop being so cryptic and finally post the answers you’ve been waiting for.

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Here is the week 11 puzzle. It is due Sunday, July 29 . No, really. Include bonus answers with your puzzle solutions.

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Hey! The “week” is finally over. Ok, so last week overlapped with this week. Deep, right?

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Here is the next puzzle. I apologize for being a day late. I apologize for the PDF form not being type ready. I apologize for whatever mistakes are in there and you have to redownload (pre-thank you, Matthew). I apologize for puzzle #3…hahahaha, not really. Due Sunday night. Submit bonus answer(s) with your puzzle.

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You all did pretty good this week. There were just a couple that hung most of you up. Read the rest of this entry »

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Just four puzzles left to go! Submissions due on Sunday.

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