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[UPDATE] The Sentinel - 3rd March 2006
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 		[UPDATE] The Sentinel - 3rd March 2006
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Puzzle Monkeys Victors in PCAG London Event
By CORWIN JONES
Five-member team The Puzzle Monkeys walked away with the prize in the London PCAG tournament, winning the first-ever PCAG team games on Earth. The five members of the champion team were Deadly Zoidberg; Sheran Jaay; Orac; Crystal Star; and Soccerdog.
This second and final part of the games took place in London, England on Saturday the 25th of February. A square mile of the capital city was transformed into a puzzle arena, with 40 teams of six or fewer players each taking part in a series of puzzle challenges, questions and scavenger hunts. At 1pm, the teams raced out from the base camp to win points at a variety of challenges including anything from forming a 127-person conga line in Trafalgar Square, to singing the Hokey Cokey in Leicester Square, through to creating towers of biscuits, and or even solving a maze through the National Gallery. The teams crammed themselves into phone boxes, formed words out of their bodies, answered questions such as, "How many yellow lanterns are there in Chinatown?" and "What do you lose if you order a kwak in De Hems bar?" and raced between underground stations to solve riddles.
Roughly 240 individuals competed in the event, with many more just observing. Players came from as far away as Ireland and America, with one entire team arriving from Barcelona, Spain. Film crews followed several of the teams throughout the day, as well as interviewing players, volunteers and Mind Candy staff.

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The day ended with the announcement of the top three teams. In third place, team Logic, Intelligence and Excellance [sic]; in second place the Perplex Monkeys; and finally, in first place, The Puzzle Monkeys. Each member of The Puzzle Monkeys was awarded with a crystal cube trophy engraved with the Academy logo, while the top eight teams took a flight on the London Eye through the generosity of an anonymous benefactor. Though unannounced at the event, fourth place was taken by The Cube ReCoventry Team, with the fifth spot held by Team Jazz Hands.
Each player from the top five teams will receive leaderboard points relative to their final rank in the PCAG event. First-ranked players will receive 300 points; 200 for second place; 150 points for third place; 100 points for fourth place; and 50 points per player on the team that took fifth place. Mind Candy has indicated that these points should be awarded by the end of this week, no doubt causing a significant shake-up on the leaderboard.
The event was the biggest single event of its kind in the UK and would not have been possible without the hard work and dedication of both the Mind Candy staff and volunteers who assisted the PCAG staff in organising the event.


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Earth Interviews: Mind Candy's Andrea Phillips
By SCOTT MYERS
I caught up with Mind Candy's Andrea Phillips, Ad Hoc Polymath, at the American International Toy Fair. Exhaustion is showing on her face. "It's been a really busy week," she explains. Indeed, Mind Candy have had a very busy year. That single week in mid-February held the PCAG Earth competitions, the Toy Fair, and the exciting announcement of Gamus Distributors (http://www.gamus.com/) carrying the puzzle cards in North America. And with puzzle card sales going quite well, there appears to be no slump in sight.
But does Mind Candy find time to relax? Andrea informs me there is a DDR rivalry raging in the office, and she seems to be the former champion, with Adam Martin, Mind Candy's CTO, currently holding the (disputed) championship. Other new-media games include the Xbox 360, particularly PGR3. I inquire about Mind Candy's interest in the latest trend in gaming, Alternate Reality Gaming. Phillips does recognize it as an "interesting gamespace," but no-one at Mind Candy are playing any ARGs at this time (that she is aware of, anyway).
And what of Perplexian games? Has such continual interaction with Perplex City begun to rub off on Mind Candy personnel? Not as such, no. Phillips reveals: The puzzle cards which have become so popular on Earth actually share a very close root to the game Clash. In this way, all of Earth have become Clash players, of a sort. However, other resources on games like Pyramid are still very limited, although Phillips expresses a great interest in learning how this fascinating game is played properly.
Other aspects of Perplexian culture are rubbing off as well. Phillips tells me of the Winter Solstice celebration she spent with her daughter. "It was quite fun!" she confides. Interestingly, the distant city is becoming quite familiar to her. She thinks back, and cannot remember a time or a thing which stands out as being truly surprising or foreign. "Almost like I live there now," she jokes.

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So then it must be very difficult for Mind Candy to receive the brunt of criticism from certain news sources within the city. Indeed, prior to the puzzle cards becoming widely available, Mind Candy was met with considerable criticism from all angles. Phillips dons a sad face. "Yes, it was so very hurtful of them." She also points out the connection between the ruling regime in the Academy -- namely Sente Kiteway -- and Mind Candy. "No matter how hard we try, critics might prefer The Academy be run by someone else.... Sometimes it is very difficult for them to see that we are doing anything."
Phillips goes on to explain, "The fundamental problem is that we have no idea where the Cube might be. We are hoping the cards will let people sift through information. Our job is to provide information, and help people sort it all out."
And what of the connection between Earth and Perplex City? Phillips is not able to go into detail about the nature of the connection itself, but she does explain some facts. For instance, the link is run by the Centre For Reality Research, which is in partnership with the Academy, and all data must go through them before getting to Earth. While other parties have expressed a great interest in establishing a link with Earth, the technology simply isn't in place. So the recent live-chat with Alejo Jackson, and other events such as radio interviews with Scarlett Kiteway and Michiko Clark all had to be coordinated through the CRR.
I point out: there is some popular opinion that Mind Candy has a certain degree of editorial control over what information reaches the city. Is there someone watching over the line? Phillips quickly assures me, no, no-one is intentionally censoring anything.
The Academy was very reluctant to contact Earth to begin with, but when it was discovered that the Receda Cube was definitely located on Earth, establishing contact was unavoidable. At this time, Mind Candy regards the Academy as a sort of client, and acts on their behalf on Earth. However, the Academy is rather tight-lipped on the future of the relationship. "Right now the objective is to find the Cube," she informs me.
The Academy doesn't want to talk about how to get the Cube back to Perplex City, either. "We have been discussing a safe haven for the Cube until a way to get it back to them has been decided upon," Phillips says. But the Academy refuses to speculate any further.


MORE NEWS IN BRIEF
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Inquest: Librarian's Death a Suicide
The police have closed the case file on the death of Isaac Cymbalisty after issuing a report that the Academy librarian died of an overdose of black market Ceretin. Police pointed to the presence of a suicide note and lack of evidence of others in his home in this clear-cut case.

We have a link to the PerplexCity Police website: http://www.perplexcitypolice.com/enquiries/PXC978C675.html

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 		Strangely, the futures page seems to have been replaced by the one from the 13th Feb. Or maybe it's just me.

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 		new letters too!

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WHO COPIES WHOM?

In response to Asrian Teuraud's letter from last issue, while our world full of 'copycats' may not be perfect, remember this: "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones". Maybe you could add that to the growing dictionary of phrases you've 'borrowed' from our world. It's one thing to copy a role-model, but to copy an entire culture? Not that I'm complaining, sharing cultural diversity is something we on Earth value -- maybe you should do the same with your leitmarks.
Lyle Enigmaster, Earth
EARTHLY GRATITUDE

As a participant in the recent London, Earth, PCAG I would like to extend my thanks to those who organised and took part in the event. From a perplex city perspective, if the collaborative efforts of the earth organisers and players are anything to go by we should find the cube before too long. I was, however, surprised to find the PCAG players relying so heavily on running around shouting. Somehow I get the feeling the games in Perplex City may be somewhat more cerebral?
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 		I noticed the same thing maevey. It's strange indeed, to have the futures page 2 weeks ago. I had to look at my calendar to make sure I wasn't going crazy
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 		perhaps we missed something on that week? and this is a huge hint to take another look! Very Happy
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 		Almost certainly an OOG error but the link on the drawing of the human chain around Nelson's Column is 404'ing....
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 		Wrong date on the hyperlink. They have the picture going off to the 2nd of march but the headline to the 3rd march.
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 		NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! Sixth place!

Knew we should have done better on that reverse spelling bee! We were up against Team Jazz Hands as well! We was robbed!!!
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The Sentinel wrote:
WHO COPIES WHOM?

In response to Asrian Teuraud's letter from last issue, while our world full of 'copycats' may not be perfect, remember this: "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones". Maybe you could add that to the growing dictionary of phrases you've 'borrowed' from our world. It's one thing to copy a role-model, but to copy an entire culture? Not that I'm complaining, sharing cultural diversity is something we on Earth value -- maybe you should do the same with your leitmarks.
Lyle Enigmaster, Earth


Woo! First apearance in The Sentinel! Nearly a whole year, and I've only just found something worth commenting on Smile
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locqust wrote:
perhaps we missed something on that week? and this is a huge hint to take another look! Very Happy


Well, that rather obscure quotation from Propertius was a bit odd for the Apple-Thief entry... its from the W.G.Shepherd translation of the first book of his Elegies. (Check out the latin, or a different translation).

The subject is basically the madness of love (well, lust at least) of the subject for his mistress, as he is tormented by her infidelities and gets all morbid.

Probably nothing, but at least its not maths-related for a change Very Happy

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 		Maybe not that crazy as the thread on Anna Heath has a suggestion that she had an affair with Cymbalisty
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 		i'm really rather proud of that interview, by the way Smile Mind Candy were very receptive to the idea all around, and remarkably helpful in allowing it to happen. They sort of leapt at the idea, and we had literally pages and pages of emails back and fForth, all in game Smile We'd be like "Michiko Clark says ..." and stuff Smile Smile Andrea Phillips is decidedly the coolest ever Smile


and hey hey, I'm on a roll:
http://www.argn.com/archive/000387pcag_new_york.php
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Scott wrote:
i'm really rather proud of that interview, by the way Smile Mind Candy were very receptive to the idea all around, and remarkably helpful in allowing it to happen. They sort of leapt at the idea, and we had literally pages and pages of emails back and fForth, all in game Smile We'd be like "Michiko Clark says ..." and stuff Smile Smile Andrea Phillips is decidedly the coolest ever Smile


and hey hey, I'm on a roll:
http://www.argn.com/archive/000387pcag_new_york.php


Super-duper awesome!!! Very Happy

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 		Just a couple of things in regard to Isaac Cymbalisty's death, the new website and the "and remember." in the futures.

First of all a Judge has decided that Cymbalisty's death was suicide.
Though answers to what the enquiry didn't find might be found in the recording of Monica Grand's death there was talk of a clean-up crew. Maybe a wild stab.

Very interesting new website and sure to add a lot to future mysteries.

In regard to this I was looking at the futures out of curiosity and the "and remember" bit says a drunkard will tell you the truth.

Is there a link to Joseph Martin Surtees in the missing persons section of the PXCPD website?

Time will tell.

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 		Has anyone got a copy of the futures from the 13th to check the text is the same and it's not just the date that's wrong? (Equally, if the two texts are from the 13th, is there any differences between them that may give us clues?)
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