This was a very educational round. I learned an odometer can double as a speedometer, Brooks should have pursued a career in the sciences, Margaret is frequenting the wrong restaurants, and the real answer to what Melissa had in middle school was butt shoulders. Oh, and I learned from Colin I am a lazy idiot.

Most importantly I learned who is going to the finals! You can too!

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We had buzzers, tiebreakers, people squeaking by. We also nearly had perfection, but that was screwed up thanks to Bret of course. Read the rest of this entry »

Round 2 is underway. If you are displeased with it starting so late, direct your ire at Gilman, because he put a puzzle out, and when you give me a good puzzle, I become obsessed like AMR when he…well…breathes. Read the rest of this entry »

There were some really close contests in Round 1. Single digits separated the winners from the losers. Did you make the cut? Read the rest of this entry »

We begin!

Meet your competition. Here are the random groupings for round 1.
Top 2 will advance from each group. Read the rest of this entry »

Hey all!

I’m taking signups to play $20,000 Pyramid, a game I ran in Power Puzzlers. The time commitment is somewhere between 5-15 minutes depending on how far you advance.

Ideally I’d be looking for 12 participants, but I can make it work with any even number 8 and up. Players would be divided into groups. Each player would get a board with seven words that belong to a theme that they would have to provide clues for. Then you attempt to solve the boards the other players in your group provided clues for. You receive points for every correct answer you guess and for every word of yours that is guessed by others.

There will be one or two winners from each group that move on to the next round with a total of probably three rounds. The two finalists go head to head with a board much like the final round of Pyramid.

You will receive 5 CJ points just for playing, and an additional 5 points for each round you advance. The game will start sometime this week assuming there’s an interest.

12 Players so far:

BHiggum
DG
Dread Pirate
Hungry Joe
Jontheelf
MelissaD
nettebarr
Nibbish
Spookymilk
Todashy
Uberminz
Yickit

Time management challenged:
Novak