This weeks new 10x10: Bathroom Fixture
Cultural references are always tricky in puzzles. How many times has a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire gotten X rounds in only to be confronted with something like "What was the name of Tintin's white dog?", but had never read anything by Herge? And how many times has a team been slowed down in a puzzle hunt because they weren't familiar with some so-called "pop" culture reference (most recently, we didn't know who Brenda Starr is in the IP BANG)?
"Bathroom Fixture" contains such a reference. Thus it may be unfair to those who haven't come across it yet, but the title should give it away in any case. If it doesn't, googling the text of the riddle will bring it up in short order.
The two fastest times to last week's "Detective's Desire" were two minutes fifty-nine seconds by david3x3x3 (sadly sans screenshot) and three minutes twenty-seconds by joefendel. Solution buttons are now available to magically reveal answers to the puzzle.
And now, back to banging my head against the wall on Shinteki's September puzzle.
"Bathroom Fixture" contains such a reference. Thus it may be unfair to those who haven't come across it yet, but the title should give it away in any case. If it doesn't, googling the text of the riddle will bring it up in short order.
The two fastest times to last week's "Detective's Desire" were two minutes fifty-nine seconds by david3x3x3 (sadly sans screenshot) and three minutes twenty-seconds by joefendel. Solution buttons are now available to magically reveal answers to the puzzle.
And now, back to banging my head against the wall on Shinteki's September puzzle.
Labels: new puzzle, nonoriddle, Shinteki monthly puzzle
posted by Skott at 3:32 PM
2 Comments:
I didn't post a screenshot of this week's puzzle, either, but I'll try to do that from now on. And I got the reference for this week's puzzle. Although I hadn't read the books, I had seen the movie (which I hear wasn't nearly as good as the books). --david3x3x3
I think one should be fine to establish bone fides :)
Honestly, though, the screenshot idea may be outdated. When doing early testing, all times were (sometimes long) over ten minutes and the idea that they could be solved in under five seemed strange at the time.
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