Rather than having a random lottery, or having an application process that may not be fun for puzzle enthusiasts since it doesn't actually involve writing or...
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Dan Egnor
egnor
Apr 19, 2011 1:18 am
[moving to bangtalk] ... Just to set the record straight: We originally planned for one weekend, so we took our first 30 registrations for that weekend. Our...
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jackpotlinda
Apr 19, 2011 4:40 pm
I like your idea, Kai. One additional item that you may want to consider giving some credit for is volunteering to help a GC staff on game-day. Volunteering is...
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anirudh_dhurka
May 27, 2011 10:06 pm
Hello everyone, I along with some colleagues are planning a small puzzle hunt at work. I was wondering if it is allowed to take ideas from past BANGs and other...
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Jan Chong
lessachu
May 27, 2011 10:12 pm
If you're going to use a puzzle as is, I would ask permission from the team that wrote it. If you're going to modify one... depends on how much you change it,...
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Greg deBeer
greg_debeer
May 27, 2011 10:12 pm
I would say your best bet would be to try to track down the person who wrote the puzzle and ask them directly- or at least contact someone on the team that ran...
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Wei-Hwa Huang
legava
May 28, 2011 1:17 am
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:06 PM, anirudh_dhurka ... "Allowed" has an implicit but undefined entity. Who is doing the allowing? Puzzle ideas are generally not...
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gotskotty
Nov 15, 2011 10:13 pm
Might it not be a good idea to have some sort of expiration time (six months?) for BANGs listed on the website as upcoming, just in case someone else wants to...
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Dan Egnor
egnor
Nov 15, 2011 10:27 pm
I hope nobody feels obliged to wait until previous BANGs run before they actually run theirs. Certainly the last few have been out of order. I think XX put...
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Megan Wachs
ellirye
Nov 15, 2011 11:17 pm
Hi all, Yeah we've gotten that sort of ping a few times, and I'd say we are not "actively working on it, but still feeling like we should/talking about it when...
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gotskotty
Feb 8, 2012 8:02 pm
... That's fair, though I kindly disagree (see the end of this post). But even genres have defining characteristics: Science fiction normally has some sort...
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Wei-Hwa Huang
legava
Feb 8, 2012 8:38 pm
So, uh, let me try to summarize your three defining characterstics of a puzzle: 1. Has an "aha" to at least one solver; 2. Has some sort of transformation; ...
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Dan Egnor
egnor
Feb 8, 2012 11:32 pm
... Oh yeah, defining characteristics for sure. But it's the type of concept that has fuzzy edges. I'm all in favor of exploring the edges, as long as we're...
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Brett Rogers
addisonbr
Feb 8, 2012 11:39 pm
... Holy crap, that is precisely my order of preference B...
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rachel_lara
Feb 8, 2012 11:41 pm
Just to chime in since our name came up as well. XX isn't "waiting" on 27 per se. We are actively working on BANG XXX, but due to jobs and children and life in...
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Curtis C. Chen
sparckl
Feb 9, 2012 2:15 am
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Dan Egnor <egnor@...> wrote: [...] ... "That's what SHE said." Sorry, it had to be done. :) Cheers, ~CKL...
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Curtis C. Chen
sparckl
Mar 21, 2012 4:12 am
Greetings! As you may know, Team Snout is running a full-weekend, driving-around puzzle hunt ("The Game") in Portland, Oregon this August. In the spirit of...
