Clues and News 1/29/9

ClueChaser.com will be having a video contest. 

When:
During this time anyone (registered player or not) can enter a video that matches the contest theme. Upon conclusion of the contest all submitted videos that meet the requirements will be posted on the website for judging. Judging will be done by the players and visitors until February 23rd at which point the winner will be announced.

http://www.cluechaser.com/2009/01/29/video-contest/ Thursday, January 30th, 2009 through February 16th, 2009.

 

Prize:
The winner will receive a ClueChaser T-shirt and recognition on the site.

Theme:
The point of the contest is to promote Game 3: Chasing Shadows and the ClueChaser site in general. Therefore, the theme of the video will be:


(Interpretation of Shadows is left to the imagination of the contestants)

Shadows.

 

Rules:
Every contest has to have them. I’ll try to keep it simple.

• All submitted videos must:
1. Match the theme of the contest.
2. Contain original content (no copyright infringement) with the exception of music.
3. Mention ClueChaser.com at least once.
4. Promote ClueChaser.com in a positive way.
5. Be rated G (this is a family friendly site)
6. Be in English if it contains dialog. Foreign languages with English subtitles or vice versa are not acceptable.
7. Be posted on YouTube.com (for consistency) and a link to the video sent to admin@cluechaser.com

• Multiple submissions per person are allowed (and encouraged).

• All submissions become the property of ClueChaser.com© and Cowpatty Bill Entertainment©.

• And just in case – Contest is void where prohibited. No purchase necessary. Open to all residents of Earth. Rules subject to change without notice.

Equipment:
For all the videos I’ve created I use Windows Movie Maker for the editing. It’s free and if you have Windows on your computer you probably already have the software. It’s easy to use and quite flexible. However you are free to use whatever software/equipment you like.

Good Luck!

An appeal to the masses

I’m stumped.

http://www.cluechaser.com/puzzles/6/

See what you can do.

I need help.

Figured it out and itfeltgood (*spoilers*)

Francisco had an early lead by noting the odd numbering.

We were working on Sample Puzzle 5 and I got the wild hair to try and take the letter/symbol from the clues based on the numbers.  I had to try it a couple different times because I got it wrong a few times and then I wasn’t counting spaces or symbols. 

I finally hit upon ASCII and put things together from there.

The next one looks awesome but I don’t have much for ideas yet…

Ancient Puzzles

From: http://www.cluechaser.com/2008/11/12/puzzle-1-2/

The moon nine days old,
The next sign to Cancer;
Pat rat without a tail;
And now, for your answer.

Sample Puzzle 5

I’m a little one-track minded these days but it’s fun.

I solved sample puzzle 4 but only with a lot of help from Francisco and Monica.  I’d never looked at a page source before and would have been stuck there indefinitely.  I was suspicious but happy to be confirmed when they pointed out how the black line follows the question which gives the answer.

Phew!  Talk about convoluted.  I think that’s what you need anymore for puzzles as people know a lot of the classics and tear apart new ones just as fast.

I’m on sample puzzle 5 right now with Francisco and Monica said she didn’t have the time right now but would catch up when she could.

I’ve decided to include the puzzles on their own pages.  I’ll leave the images I already have in my blog but if you want to see the individual puzzles you can go to the links on the side (or at the bottom of the main page depending on where you are).  I’ve included the original links in case you want to see if you’ve got it figured out.

I’ve got the crossword solved but am not really sure where to go from here…

-TheDon

Progress on #3

But what do they mean?

Sample Puzzle 2

Stupid math

Lots of math, 3 sets of three makes me think coordinates.

-Don

p.s. Almost forgot to mention that I’m working on Sample Puzzle 2 at www.cluechaser.com

www.cluechaser.blogonize.com

So Monica got a hold of me and explained how she and Bernardino are also in the process of setting up their blog sites. How fun! The three of us will continue our love of cluechaser and puzzles in an extra-game manner.

She’s at Monica Hardaway , go visit, have fun!

I’m going to check in on Bernardino…

-Don

www.cluechaser.com

I’m maybe too old for this but I’m running through the games at a nice puzzle site.

I’m on the first games right now.

Still working out this whole blogging thing.

-Don