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Re: SUMS puzzle hunt

#41 Post by gill216 » Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:29 pm

Everyone on the revised list should now have the team password. Let me know if that still isn't the case.


Sparkout- you have Esme-you can't have our password too :D
(Esme is usually their secret weapon)
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Re: SUMS puzzle hunt

#42 Post by Bunnylump » Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:07 pm

Sounds like you've been haing a nightmare, Katsmom. Thought we hadn't heard from you lately.

And re holidays.. I have to go back on Wednesday AND Thursday even though I'm not paid for it. Fed up? Yes, monumentally. :evil:

Good luck with the puzzles folks.
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Re: SUMS puzzle hunt

#43 Post by strep98 » Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:42 pm

MY daughter goes back on the 3rd, but seemed to finish the Friday before everyone else in the town, so I expect the rest will go back on the 7th.

Had a go on the sample and failed (yes no change there), so goodness knows if I will of any use.
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Re: SUMS puzzle hunt

#44 Post by fernando » Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:19 am

I am hoping that even if I am not much use it will wake my brain up for school and hopefully the teachers will let us off homework as it is the first week and I will therefore have time for puzzles in the evening. :)

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Re: SUMS puzzle hunt

#45 Post by LAT » Sat Aug 29, 2009 12:45 am

giraffe wrote:The passwordy details are on the page of the forum that Scurra has set up. It might only be visible to some of us though?
Am I meant to be able to see that? Or will it spring into being when the puzzles start?

Or have I been banned/excluded? :(

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Re: SUMS puzzle hunt

#46 Post by Scurra » Sat Aug 29, 2009 1:05 am

You weren't on the list when Gill first posted it. Sneakily, she's been back and edited it without my noticing. :)
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Re: SUMS puzzle hunt

#47 Post by LAT » Sat Aug 29, 2009 1:11 am

I thought I was on the list, but anyway, suddenly I can see it so thanks. :D

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Re: SUMS puzzle hunt

#48 Post by Scurra » Sat Aug 29, 2009 1:57 am

Scurra wrote:You weren't on the list when Gill first posted it.
If you look, you'll see that your first posting in this thread is after Gill's long list (which was subsequently updated with more names.)
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Re: SUMS puzzle hunt

#49 Post by gill216 » Sat Aug 29, 2009 6:12 am

Now Lat is confused and thinks you are talking rubbish ;)

LAt WAS on the first list, and in brackets I said she'd volunteered by PM- and Lat will have seen that list.

Then I edited it to add more names and lost Lat. However, for once I was paying attention, and added her back in again. :lol: :lol: but yes, ultimately the fault was mine. Sorry Lat.
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Re: SUMS puzzle hunt

#50 Post by Redfraggle » Sat Aug 29, 2009 1:44 pm

I think Ive got the link of the sample puzzle. Who else got it? :roll:

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Re: SUMS puzzle hunt

#51 Post by Laura » Sat Aug 29, 2009 4:09 pm

I've had a look at the sample puzzle, but I also noticed there's now a prologue, which isn't a puzzle, but sets the scene a bit. Seems to be a murder mystery, set in London, so there might not be as many Australian references.

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Re: SUMS puzzle hunt

#52 Post by clvrlad » Sat Aug 29, 2009 4:55 pm

i find myself agreeing to the austrailian biasing in the sample puzzle if youd just said Gough to me id have never have come up with the austrailian priminister

well untill i remembered SUMS is austrailian ;-) then id factor that in
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Re: SUMS puzzle hunt

#53 Post by Redfraggle » Sat Aug 29, 2009 8:33 pm

I actually solved the sample puzzle without asking for hints! :shock: :lol:

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Re: SUMS puzzle hunt

#54 Post by strep98 » Mon Aug 31, 2009 7:23 pm

I've looked at the puzzles and :shock: :shock: :shock:

Also I can't access google docs as it says there is an error (not that I would have anything to put in them)
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Re: SUMS puzzle hunt

#55 Post by giraffe » Tue Sep 08, 2009 5:07 pm

We were 23rd overall, which is pretty spectacular. (out of 254 entries)

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Re: SUMS puzzle hunt

#56 Post by Wulfruna » Wed Sep 09, 2009 7:32 pm

That is very impressive :D
Congratulations to all!

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Re: SUMS puzzle hunt

#57 Post by Biscuit » Wed Sep 09, 2009 7:55 pm

well done from me too - really impressed but I knew you lot would be good - how you work out these puzzles is pretty amazing. My OH cannot believe the complexity.

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Re: SUMS puzzle hunt

#58 Post by gill216 » Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:12 pm

Just been catching up - Well done everyone- and that includes Sparkout, SoY backstage comic and the rest of their team. :D ( Who did beat the rest of us yet again :evil: )

I just loved this one:
what on earth makes you think this has anything to do with Disney cartoons? - Scurra
Well, apparently everything as it turned out :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: SUMS puzzle hunt

#59 Post by giraffe » Sat Sep 12, 2009 6:08 pm

In fairness to Scurra I was just doing word association "Donald and...." :roll: So nothing made me think it particularly. :lol: :lol:

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Re: SUMS puzzle hunt

#60 Post by clvrlad » Sat Sep 12, 2009 7:54 pm

giraffe wrote: So nothing made me think it particularly. :lol: :lol:
well could be just good instincts ;-)
while ithers have to think everything through
both approaches have their pluses ;-)
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