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Re: Mums Hunt 2009 & Cisra 2009

#41 Post by clvrlad » Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:57 pm

well since they are team puzzles and i wont be arround when every one else is.....

you can have my place bunny ;-)

ill do the cheering on the sidelines :-D
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Re: Mums Hunt 2009 & Cisra 2009

#42 Post by gill216 » Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:59 pm

No fighting pleae. We can have 2 teams :D
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Re: Mums Hunt 2009 & Cisra 2009

#43 Post by Bunnylump » Thu Mar 26, 2009 11:03 pm

No, no you do it please. I'm really busy and also brain dead at the moment, so I'd be absolutely useless. Anyway, you're up in the night so you can get the first crack at them.
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Re: Mums Hunt 2009 & Cisra 2009

#44 Post by MBH » Thu Mar 26, 2009 11:40 pm

Bunnylump wrote:I'm really busy and also brain dead at the moment.
I'm seeing the problem with this 'twin' thing :cry: Snap!

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Re: Mums Hunt 2009 & Cisra 2009

#45 Post by Bunnylump » Thu Mar 26, 2009 11:48 pm

:lol: Can I blame you, or are you blaming me?
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Re: Mums Hunt 2009 & Cisra 2009

#46 Post by Scurra » Thu Mar 26, 2009 11:55 pm

Why should we need to blame you when we know it's always your fault? :)
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Re: Mums Hunt 2009 & Cisra 2009

#47 Post by Bunnylump » Fri Mar 27, 2009 12:01 am

Git
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Re: Mums Hunt 2009 & Cisra 2009

#48 Post by SparkOut » Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:30 am

CISRA is open for registration, with the preliminary puzzles up. (Round 1 is always released a while before the main Hunt, as a sort of warmup).

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Re: Mums Hunt 2009 & Cisra 2009

#49 Post by gill216 » Fri Mar 27, 2009 3:36 pm

Scurra, will you register a puzzlebrains team please.

Volunteers for CISRA please.


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Re: Mums Hunt 2009 & Cisra 2009

#50 Post by SparkOut » Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:44 pm

I'd volunteer but then both yope and PB would be disqualified.
3 down so far.

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Re: Mums Hunt 2009 & Cisra 2009

#51 Post by supersleuth » Sat Mar 28, 2009 3:57 pm

Have now looked at some of the past puzzles on the cisra site (thanks for posting the address). I am interested but am worried that I'd be rather a broken reed. (This is not a cue for anyone to say "no, no", by the way; I'm just being realistic. So if you needed someone to make up the team, I'd be happy to do it, but probably not otherwise)

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Re: Mums Hunt 2009 & Cisra 2009

#52 Post by LAT » Sat Mar 28, 2009 4:15 pm

I think that is how I feel too. I'm getting a bit worried I'm not going to be any help for MUMS anyway :?

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Re: Mums Hunt 2009 & Cisra 2009

#53 Post by Bunnylump » Sat Mar 28, 2009 5:05 pm

Em, could I just ask who is it that's done all the puzzles in issue 3 (apart from the meta)?? Crikey, if you can't do it, who can?
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Re: Mums Hunt 2009 & Cisra 2009

#54 Post by clvrlad » Sat Mar 28, 2009 5:32 pm

Bunnylump wrote:Em, could I just ask who is it that's done all the puzzles in issue 3 (apart from the meta)?? Crikey, if you can't do it, who can?

well i can honestly say youve done more of them than me :-D
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Re: Mums Hunt 2009 & Cisra 2009

#55 Post by SparkOut » Sat Mar 28, 2009 7:16 pm

OK, it may be daunting to think of, but (speaking as an "also-ran" MIT hunter) the fact that you don't instantly know the answer doesn't mean that you can't have fun, especially in puzzling with other people, and although success always makes it a good memory, it's not a requisite. As well as that, the fact that it's a group thing makes a difference - often a chance comment from one sparks a chain of thought in another, and then you find a breakthrough is made. So please don't feel negative about the prospect. If you like Puzzlebrains, you'll like MUMS, and (probably especially) CISRA. Whether you get 100 points or not is largely irrelevant.

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Re: Mums Hunt 2009 & Cisra 2009

#56 Post by gill216 » Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:48 am

I tried CISRA last year on my own, for various reasons my other team mates were not around the week of the puzzles.

I think I solved 6 of the 20 puzzles and if I'd had some lego I'd have probably made 7. Working as a team will be good fun.
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Re: Mums Hunt 2009 & Cisra 2009

#57 Post by SparkOut » Sun Mar 29, 2009 9:46 am

The MUMS Hunt prologue is here: http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~mums/puzz ... ologue.pdf

(No points available yet, just scene-setting)

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Re: Mums Hunt 2009 & Cisra 2009

#58 Post by Looby » Sun Mar 29, 2009 4:00 pm

You'll be pleased to know that I did manage that! :D
Not much idea about the scene set though
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Re: Mums Hunt 2009 & Cisra 2009

#59 Post by giraffe » Sun Mar 29, 2009 4:19 pm

Can you explain it to me please then? :shock:

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Re: Mums Hunt 2009 & Cisra 2009

#60 Post by Bunnylump » Sun Mar 29, 2009 6:04 pm

clvrlad wrote:
Bunnylump wrote:Em, could I just ask who is it that's done all the puzzles in issue 3 (apart from the meta)?? Crikey, if you can't do it, who can?

well i can honestly say youve done more of them than me :-D
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