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[UPDATE] Anna's Blog - 16 May 06 - New Perspective
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cassandra
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 		[UPDATE] Anna's Blog - 16 May 06 - New Perspective
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Tuesday, 16th May 2006

Violet unexpectedly came round for tea in my office late yesterday afternoon. Now, Violet is one of those people who isn't quite sure what to do with children. She probably thinks she's terrible with kids, and gets by speaking to them very seriously, as though they were tiny adults. In my experience, though, children adore being taken seriously like that, so my brood has always been enthusiastic about her. Violet, though, seemed a little taken aback to find the boys in my office with me.

Otto and Pip were drawing 'engineering diagrams' for some sort of giant flying robots - they come back to the Academy sometimes after school, when Fleming isn't free. They keep themselves busy and stay quiet - quieter than my colleagues can be! - and Caine and Aiko like to abduct them from time to time to test out some of their puzzle designs on 'minds free of preconception.'

When I figured out Violet wanted to have a private chat with me, I sent them off to see if Caine needed their 'help' with anything. (Caine may try to seem a ruffian, but he's the one who taught the twins how to play Pyramid; they really love him.)

Violet sat perched at the very edge of her chair and she told me, first, that Kurt was off chasing Miranda; then words just started spilling out of her mouth, about Miranda, about Anthony Granier, about mysterious murderers and Cube-thieves and the Third Power, who I always thought were just bugaboo villains from children's stories. I think I know everything now, and it's like my whole world has snapped back into focus. Suddenly, it all makes sense again. When she was done talking, I looked at her face, pinched and pale and so very worried, and I asked her what I could do to help.

For now, I'm doing my best to conceal Kurt's absence at the offices. We do allow quite a lot of field research and working from whatever place is the most convenient at the time, but Kurt's lack of tangible output will be noticeable before long. I'll be taking some of my own work and presenting it as his, though my maths puzzles aren't but a dim candle to his. Meanwhile, I don't suppose you lot would be willing to chip in with any puzzles you have lying around? We couldn't put them on cards, I suppose, so I'd have to quietly weed them out in the later phases, but it would make it easier to protect Kurt. As a bit of a reward for your efforts, I'll post the best of the lot up here so you can all enjoy them.


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poozle
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 		Oooooh, create a puzzle contest, sounds fun (except for the fact I have exams atm Sad ).

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 		create a puzzle relating to something you study then it counts as revision.
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 		Well, this gives me an opportunity to try out some puzzles I discarded as being too easy or redundant with existing cards, and let the other models I sent in be the ones that 'count'.

Wish me luck in following in Mr. Enigma's footsteps; for now, I continue to create!

EDIT: Sorry, the page you found isn't not new, Joe, but good eye. That was a little quiz for Anna's kids, and a 10/10 gave you a poem from Anna for her sons as a little reward. Just an endearing little mini-puzzle we stumbled upon. Very Happy

And since I'm bothering to say anymore, I've already done my first one, only... what, half an hour later?

SECOND EDIT: Just checked my mail and, hot diggity, Paul from Mind Candy likes the ones I submitted! A little tidying up of the submission process and it looks like you might be seeing me on Wave 4!

I'll apologize for the grief I'll be causing in advance. Mr. Green

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 		apologies if this has been posted before (have searched and searched to no avail) but there is a puzzle hidden on Annas blog..

http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/ah328451/asecret.html
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 		Should we be sticking to maths puzzles, then, or absolutely anything we can think of?

If it's maths-related, I'm going for a nap instead to save Anna the trouble.. Wink

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 		I just submitted a puzzle and it wasn't math related, more the kind of thing Anna herself would create. I figure if she's trying to do the work of two people she could probably use a few generated cards of her own.

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poozle
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Reptile wrote:
create a puzzle relating to something you study then it counts as revision.


There are enough computer questions though Sad oh well, I'll try to make something good.

Ooooooh, I have an idea Very Happy

EDIT: How did you submit your puzzle, I have an idea but I don't want to make it in one format then end up redoing it in another.

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 		sent my one in. Bet it's pants to them.
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 		I've had this devious little puzzle or two sitting on my home computer for a while, for a puzzle-based contest in another community... shame my home computer's not connected to the net at the moment. Argh!

Ah well.

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Agent Lex wrote:
I've had this devious little puzzle or two sitting on my home computer for a while, for a puzzle-based contest in another community... shame my home computer's not connected to the net at the moment. Argh!

Ah well.


same here , been using the wroks network to do my biding Twisted Evil
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achenar wrote:
Should we be sticking to maths puzzles, then, or absolutely anything we can think of?

If it's maths-related, I'm going for a nap instead to save Anna the trouble.. Wink


*actually goes and registers for an account instead of just lurking around*

From Kurt's About Me page:

Kurt wrote:
I'm into science of all kinds; I have a degree in Natural Sciences from West Besley College and I've also conducted a fair bit of research in the fields of computer science, crypto, that sort of thing. I'm fascinated with the developments on Earth relating to those subjects - you're proceeding on broadly the same path as we've done but in some interestingly different ways.


So, if you don't want to create an actual math/science puzzle, maybe look at a history of math or science puzzle, or "differences" between our and their development in those areas.

Maybe it's just me, but it seems most of their growth is in terms of hard technology (the contact lenses, see-through tents, etc) ... but we don't hear much as much about natural science-related topics (Kurt's degree). Perhaps some concentration on that might not be a bad idea (gives Kurt some points for creating a puzzle that in an area that might be underrepresented (Dem Old Bones and ... ?)).

... hmm, I may have actually come up with a puzzle as a result of a this message. Whoduvthunkit? Laughing

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 		What format are people using to submit their puzzles?

Trout away if I missed this part of the discussion...

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sackofpotatoes wrote:
What format are people using to submit their puzzles?

Trout away if I missed this part of the discussion...


Trout I've already asked the question Razz Just look UP Jetpack

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 		Here are some of the cards we have that Kurt has signed (in hopes of inspiring people). My cards are at home, so it's very possible I have missed some, so don't complain if I have (I'll edit this later to fix the list).

027 Bar None
033 Turnabout
084 Insights
087 Bar Crossing
092 Dudeney's Medallion
101 Petals Around the Rose
103 Sudoku
109 Infinite Series
118 Chemistry Experiment
129 Dot Gone
138 Geek Antiques
148 Serious Scientific Sokoban
161 Dances With Bees
177 Consider a Spherical World
178 Sex Linked
212 Whipsmart Birthday
248 Differently Lethal
251 The Thirteenth Labour *shakes his fist*

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