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[myf]

Indeed, it was a fun (but tiring) day of amusement and adventure in the big city. Well done to everyone who went to take part, or spectate. And a huge thanks to everyone involved in organising the whole thing, and creating the evil maze through the gallery!

One thing not mentioned above - the winning team (sorry, can't remember the name.........might have been Puzzle Monkeys, but apologies if I've got it wrong), who won with a seemingly huge score of 1200 points or something, got crystal cube trophies for their efforts.

[jalapeno_dude]

The message is now believed to say "Tate modern 11 o clock".

Dun dun dun.....

[sherpa]

Re: [London Event] The Day

[sotonrich]

well it's almost 11, i'm back home...totally wiped out, my feet ache, my hands were frozen several times and i'm ready to sleep for a day, but (and it's a big but) I can honestly say I've had the best time today.

It was great meeting so many of you, putting faces to names, chatting about all thinks under the PXC sun, dancing the conga, running about with a banana and of course doing the hokey cokey in leicester square!

sorry i didnt get to stay longer in the pub......next time for sure! but i'm going to sleep tonight a very happy boy (with a new leitmark yay!)

i'm sure we'll be dissecting the events but not yet...give it a few days eh?

night all

[angelsk]

#will post update tomorrow, tired now.

Amazing day, fun had by all.

Random Genius #10

BTW: we were one of the teams that got the National Gallery 250pointer Go us!

[Rotundo]

[angelsk]

[PseudoVal]

What a good day. Can't wait to find out what the top 8 teams found out....

All in all thanks to everyone who participated. Was great to meet you all (guin - top tshirt). Thanks to all members of R4nd0m Genius too.

Mind Candy, if your reading, looking forward to the next one...

[tally]

I just got back from London.. v tired and stuff. Poozle, I'd have loved to have met you there...

what he said, plus what sotonrich said (Hokey Kokey in Leicester Sqaure such a laugh! and conga in Trafalgar a blast). Congrats on getting the National Gallery one... that bugged me so much. We made an educated guess (wrong), but still came second

The morse code from the London eye. Still a bit shakey, as it was hard to tell what was being shone at us... several of us wrote down what we saw, some videoed it. We spent a lot of time trying to work it all out in the pub after but it got a bit mind-jangling. I think Reason will be posting what he got down tomorrow, and I'll post what I got down too. Not sure if the whole "meet at Tate at eleven" was just imaginative thinking on our part.

Everyone was so cool, in terms of teammanship and working together.

I reckon we got a couple of phrases from the morse, which may or may not be questionable:

"can you see"
"not safe"

i'm fairly sure about these; stuff about tate, meet, eleven... need to organise my notes before I can post on those.

Anyway, a fabby time of running around and being bonkers was had by all!

/edited to correct poozle's gender... sorry mate! : )

[tally]

Strange... I posted after Poozle, yet it appears before his. Just to clarify, Poozle posted before me at this point

[Miko]

{was writing an email to a friend about event and thought this might interest people who didnt get to the event but wanted to know more about the stuff}

Basically, we got a sheet of stuff. There were questions like "how many yellow lanterns in chinatown?", "where is the home of chav?" "what do you lose if you order a kwak in je sung bar?" and you had to go to these places and find out. You lose a shoe by the way. That was the best question! They give you a special glass to drink it, but it requires your shoe as a deposit.

Anyway, then there were other things like "leicster square, every 20 minutes, sing as a choir in the center" or "trocadero, play against other teams at daytona racing, every 10 minutes"

There were photo questions, like "take a photo of 6 people in a phone box", "spell out a word in a human chain and send a photo" "take a photo on the lions on nelsons column" "take a photo at every tube station" etc..

Then there was a 500 point special thing in the london gallery called gallery trail. It was a really cryptic message like "turn east and follow the eyes, find the babys tiara and face it.. follow the leaves on the floor".. Basically it was a big long scavenger trail through the art museum, but it was actually really cool, and you had to look so closely to solve the clues. Only 3 teams completed it, we got all the way to the end but gave the wrong answer

Every so often you'd get a text message asking you a question about perplex city, and you had to reply with the right answer to get points. One of them was in morse code! lol.

Finally, you'd get texts saying "NEW CHALLENGE! Race beginning at nelsons column at 2.15" or "NEW CHALLENGE! Do the hokey kokey in Trafalgar square at 3.00" which were really fun, and you only got the texts a little way before.

Oh and in base camp they had backward spelling contests and biscuit stacking contests. All a lot of fun. You got points for everything, but there was way too much to fit it all in and it was hard knowing what to do and where to go. The gallery was big points, but very very hard, so it probably wasnt worth spending all the time there we did. But we finished somewhere in the middle, and everyone enjoyed themselves.

At the end they presented the winners with shiny cubes and gave the top 8 teams a trip on the london eye But we all got, you know the leitmark thing? we got a special PCAG one and every team got a perplex city bag.

[mac_monkey]

Yes it's all very exciting. Tally's done wuite well with what she got when we were in the pod (we came second :p). I really hope someone can piece everything together from the morse code the 3 or so groups got.

Btw this is my first post here- hurrah! The event gave me an excuse to get posting lol!

[Enigmaster]

It all sounds so much fun, I really look forward to when I get a chance to participate in these live events we keep getting.

Also, seems like poozle's post is stuck at the bottom of this thread despite it being the first chronologically - coding error or something?

[GuyP]

Currently, I can barely see, let alone type! A great day was had by all, however. I volunteered as a crew member along with other familiar UF types and hung out in Piccadilly Circus with jojojo and Bert, occasionally aiding the odd confused team in their maelstrom of confusion. I'll post more about the event as a whole tomorrow, but in the meantime one thing:

If you're posting photos to Flickr, please tag your pictures "perplexcity" AND "pcaglondon", because that will make it loads easier to find all our photos. Also, I'm sure MC would appreciate any photos you could send their way. Well played one and all, and congratulations to the team that organised the day!

[Riiick]

Wow, what a day. I have only just got home and I am absolutely worn out now. It's intriging about the morse code message - was it worked out before 11, and did anyone try going to the tate? Maybe when someone has more time to go through the video footage they will find something new.

All in all a fun day. It seems you can view the leaderboard for the event here: http://events.perplexcity.com/leaderboard.html.

I'm not sure if we are supposed to know this website, but I read the URL when Adrian switched between his web browser and Google Earth.