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[Guin]

I think mine would have to be #114 taking the biscuit, #208 Freak Word 9I love scrabble!) and #149 Complex Basic (ahhh happy days spending hours and hours on my C64)

I wont be adding Reimann or Shuffled to my list under any cercumstances

[angelsk]

[applesticker]

My absolute favorite card is Traces. When I first heard about the game, I sent away for a few cards to see what they were like, and this was the first one I laid eyes on. I liked the work that went into figuring out the answer from just some scraps of information. After that I was hooked.

I really like cards that are in the same vein -- some pictures or some coordinates. They require research rather than just math (not my favorite subject).

[CoolCats712]

Of the ones I've solved:

#140 Mornington Crescent. Though I'd never heard of the game before, now that I do this strikes me as a brilliant, snarky puzzle.
#151 Crazy Talk. This is my favorite poem, and I didn't need to translate a word to solve it!
#209 Little Pigley Farm. Despite the typos. Now I need to find more cross-number puzzles.

And I guess I'll add #251 The Thirteenth Labour, as it's the only as-yet unsolved one I've got. Spending hours on a card just doesn't feel right when you know there's a solution posted a few clicks away.

[silhouette]

# 144 Mastermind. It gave me an excuse to get out our one and play with it instead of working.
# 116 The Rice Gambit. I had to memorise the sum (excluding the -1)in Year 7 in return for a Mars bar from my maths teacher, so this card was a pleasant surprise.

[JebJoya]

Umm, for me it would be Freak Word (I was the first one to get the Scrabble puzzle on the forum I think - before I got the card though - I like scrabble ),
then probably We Be Rational Pirates! Arr! because it's simple enough for me to show many of my friends and for them to get thoroughly confused by it (Maths or MORSE people mainly (MORSE is Maths, Operational Research, Stats, and Economics btw)),
Umm, then I dunno about position 3, I'm stuck between The Red Ace - because I'm a sucker for Poker, or T-L-P because it was my first Silver and I could actually work it out all by myself with no clues!

Bah, whatever, they're all good fun

Jeb

[wizzsteve2]

my favorite cards would have to be

#78 edible love- i love cooking
#87 bar crossing- ive done a puzzle like this before
#118 chemistry experiment- again i like cookin
#171 witch script- i lliked the language plus it was one of the first cards i got


also i liked #22 cold fission despite having this card 2 month i never noticed the ink thing till like a couple of weeks ago

[rose]

Shuffled is my favorite card - I like the disappearing/reappearing ink and, perversely, I like it because it has been so infuriating to solve. I am a fan of Neal Stephenson's work and the Solitaire cipher is the only complex cipher that I can solve reliably...just not here yet.

[JayJay]

I think favs would include

#22 Cold Fission - Just to find the ink thing and thinking that was cool and what else would we discover with other cards.
#57 Volume - Remebering Die Hard and how they solved it.
#87 Bar Crossing - Must not leave Tippy with drink!
#149 Complex Basic - Arh basic programming at it worst. Goto should be forever banned never to be used again.


Worst card #238 Riemann... maybe that dot is a clue....

[ryandrew]

Thinking about it, I also loved complex basic.

[cassandra]

015 Milo - weakness for things kitty. and cryptic crossword clues.
184 Love Letters - spent a long time working on this one, and first figured out the solve (basically )
219 The Master of Secrets - fabulous (and hard!) card.
240 Elucidate - another brilliant card, and one I spent forever on (also learned a lot about phonolinguistics in the process).

[dps05]

I really like the way all of the cards force you into learning something new that may never otherwise penetrate your consciousness.

My favourite 'class' of cards are the historical/classic maths type problems, like
#153 The Spider and The Fly
#209 Little Pigley Farm

Unsurprising really as I'm (supposed to be) a maths graduate.

But I totally agree with CoolCats712,
#151 Crazy Talk is a fantastic poem.

#140 Mornington Crescent was fun!

#091 Twisty Little Passages nearly sent me blind and insane - the number of times I had to restart that one after losing my place...

[fitzyfitz]

017 - Easy As...

[ambskunk]

140 Mornigton Crescent because it looks impossible if you don't know the game, but in fact is so simple and great fun to 'explain' to people who don't know (which is pretty much everyone in Aus)

184 Love Letters because once I started to get an idea about it, it all started to fall nicely into place and I love it when that happens with puzzles

49 Bookworm because the majority of people get it wrong first attempt, probably thinking it is too easy to be right - which it is!

[spugmeistress]

i like twisty little passages, cos its so elegantly done, and a cool maze to solve, read between the lines cos it's one of the few cards that are actually 'cool' ;), instruction, because it has dancing!, riff, because it has guitars! and complex basic because it took me back to my first ever computer :)

rach =)