We wrapped up Cutthroat Points Pyramid with a live Winner’s Circle for both the winners and losers brackets. I had 7-8 windows open, a bi-polar timer running, and a peanut gallery full of wisenheimers.

In our loser’s bracket it was very close. I think. I set the timer to count down from 4:00 and it rolled past the 1:00 mark with the round still going for Melissa. When I stopped the timer, however, it read 2:78. WTF? Annette came in with a time of 3:35 to solve. So sticking with the true cutthroat nature of this place, what do we do? Declare a badass mutha effin tie, that’s what! Melissa likely edged Annette by a little, though Annette was entering her answers one tap at a time on her Kindle. So I guess a draw works for me.

In the winner’s bracket there were no timer malfunctions. One player solved the board before the regulation time was over, clocking at 1:53. The Cutthroat Points Pyramid champ is…

BEAU [redacted]!

Congrats. His enthusiasm for the game never wavered from the day he signed up. I still remember his passionate response when asked for the second time if he’d like to play: “Ugh, sure.”

Thank you everyone for playing and I hope you had fun. The only things that sucks about being on this side is not being able to play. If you have any suggestions for how the game should have been different, please let me know. I’ll be back with a different game before the month is up.

Final CJ Points
Beau 25, Margaret 20, Brooks 20, Kelly 15, Novak 10, Bret 10, Will 10, Gilman 10, Annette 8, Melissa 8, Michael 7, Pope 7…and everyone else 5.

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