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email from stranger, puzzle ideas
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email from stranger, puzzle ideas
How do I send an email from a stranger? What are some puzzles you've enjoyed that don't feel like p

I would like to create email accounts for my fictional characters to use to send to my players. Should I use gmail or yahoo accounts, or something else? (what is best for remaining anonymous if my players try to find out who created the email account?)
What are some good puzzles you've played in past games that required time, effort, and thinking on the part of the players but didn't seem contrived or artificial, but natural?
Thanks for your help.

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 2:46 pm

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Re: email from stranger, puzzle ideas
How do I send an email from a stranger? What are some puzzles you've enjoyed that don't feel like p

sh wrote:

It really depends on the character. If your characters are using freewebs and blogspot, then a gmail should be fine. If they've got their own domain, then you should have some addresses with it that you can use. Gmail is anonymous (especially since you can use fake details in the signup process Shifty Eyes

) and your own domain's email is no less anonymous than your whois info.

sh wrote:

What are some good puzzles you've played in past games that required time, effort, and thinking on the part of the players but didn't seem contrived or artificial, but natural?

It's stereotypical, but codes/ciphers are the most natural, if the person using them has something to hide. Any puzzle can seem unnatural unless there's good reason for it, of course, since people tend not to use puzzles in the real world.
Other decently natural puzzle examples I can think of:
Guessing someone's password via their reminder/an external profile.
Locating something given triangulation co-ordinates.
Searching a given resource (eg an online database) to find something (eg a person in the database) given some parameters (eg height, hair colour, etc).

The trick is to make a puzzle out of a situation you might find yourself in, rather than the other way around.

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:42 pm

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