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Rogi Ocnorb

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**Posted:** Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:19 pm

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Randomeis · Unfettered Joined: 25 Aug 2004 Posts: 426 Location: AL

The http://www.puzzlecrunch.org/ now states that we can have teams, Who's up for a uF team?

**Posted:** Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:10 am

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RandomJaz · Decorated Joined: 01 May 2007 Posts: 195 Location: UK

The time difference might not work in my favour, but I will try and get as involved as possible

**Posted:** Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:12 am

AtionSong · Unfettered Joined: 29 Aug 2006 Posts: 352

Sounds cool! I'm up for some unfiction comrodery! IRC?

**Posted:** Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:51 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

Sure. We can just open a new room on Saturday.
Guess we'll be needing a team name, too.
Any suggestions? Or just the generic "Team unfiction"?

**Posted:** Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:37 pm

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natas

Count me in, considering I'm from Illinois and it would be cool just to participate in something from around this neck of the woods. Team Unfiction sounds good to me. Also, is the IRC channel kept secret as to keep non-team-members (i.e. non-UFers) away or is someone gonna post it here? Since it is a competition and all.

**Posted:** Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:28 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

Given how fast the bots catalog new pages on unfiction and make them available to searches, I'd say we should limit our posting (even if spoilered) of any parts of the questions and answers to the forums and not put the room name out there.
Like I said, I'll be of limited use on this one due to my poor connection. The puzzles in PuzzleCrack were all fairly low-bandwith types, but even a large image file takes some time to load, here. I'll let somebody else handle the IRC part as if I try to set up any kind of hidden/secure room, it'll be epic fail.

Puzzles typically entail elements of:

Set-up (A clue page)
Presentation/additional data collection (via images, mostly)
Ordering
Data extraction/decryption
Research (not always)
Reporting the answer or getting a hint via email

If too many are struggling with something, they usually update the puzzle with new clues or clarifications.

And we need to keep track of the puzzles/solves for use in the meta-puzzle.

**Posted:** Fri Apr 25, 2008 5:00 pm

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Oriza

sounds great!

do you sign up at all? and where do they put the puzzles?

**Posted:** Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:04 am

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natas

It starts in like fifteen minutes, anybody else playing.... and anybody set up an IRC channel.

**Posted:** Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:45 am

AtionSong · Unfettered Joined: 29 Aug 2006 Posts: 352

Chat

**Posted:** Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:48 am

natas

now u get to enter a username and password for "Staging". It's started

**Posted:** Sat Apr 26, 2008 11:01 am

catherwood

CISRA

**Posted:** Sat Apr 26, 2008 12:41 pm

rowan · Unfictologist Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1966

Whee! That was fun. We believe we have the right answer, but as the creators are taking a break, we won't know for a while. Thanks to everyone who stopped in and helped. Every little bit helped Very Happy

**Posted:** Sat Apr 26, 2008 9:43 pm

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avonpaintball

Eighth place...

I'm up for CISRA catherwood. I already signed up a team but I'd like to work with unfiction again.

**Posted:** Sun Apr 27, 2008 1:15 am

natas

what ended up being the correct answer for the beta puzzle?

**Posted:** Sun Apr 27, 2008 8:25 am