sorry to post my reply on facebook and not your blog proper but here at work your blog is blocked by sonicwall as "personals - dating."
i enjoyed reading this a lot and thought about how teams i've been on have dealt with this problem on other games.
in new york, where our team has been as large as 20 people, we often try to huddle around a puzzle and do the blurting thing. but i can't deal with that because it is uncomfortable and i don't think well in that situation.
but my experience has also shown me that puzzles are rarely solved by one person suddenly cracking them, often the group has to brainstorm and share all their ideas, "blurt" them if you will, in order to get someone to that "a-ha" moment.
i think figuring out a set amount of time for each person to come up with ideas then everyone sharing them is a good marriage of these two approaches.
i also think having a copier available to make sure everyone can take a paper puzzle a quiet place to think is helpful.
This prompts some questions: How many of you people are using this site to find dates? How many of you would use this site to find dates if only your local firewall wasn't blocking it? Should I try to make matches among my single friends via this website? Which do you consider to be a better source of dates: lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us or facebook.com? Should I think harder about what David wrote about collaboration instead of getting totally sidetracked by the whole "dating site" thing, or would that be out of character?
Labels: juvenile, puzzlehunts, social networks