Speaking of "what's this kind of puzzle called?", what is "Put together the letter-triples ION ISS NSM TRA to form a word"? It's kind of an anagram, but easier since you've got three triples instead ...
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Puzzle Hunts are Everywhen, even the so-called "Stupid Hours"
A coupla weeks back, I gave a talk at the 2011 GC Summit. (Many thanks to Shinteki and Snout for organizing!) My talk was about time and the 2-Tone Game. E.g., at what time of day did teams mostly p...
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2-Tone Game: What do you want to know?
Suppose I gave a short talk on the 2-Tone Game at the upcoming GC Summit. What would you want to hear about? Yeah, I wrote designer's notes, but those are hard to slog through. Yeah, the Snoutcast fo...
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Salvaged from Facebook: More on Observing Playtesters
A while back, I posted a plea for Game Control folks to offer up insights on how they Observe Playtesters. That got some interesting replies scattered around the internets. It also got some replies...
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Was Rich Bragg's record for longest http://2tonegame.org/ puzzle solve five months? Because I just noticed that another person took seven months on a puzzle. ...
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longest gap between solves?
Someone, I'm not sure who, finished the 2 Tone Game today and used its built-in taunting system to ask: yay, finally got the last one, so do i win the prize for longest gap between solves? More t...
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Question for GCs: Observing Playtesters
The latest episode of Snoutcast is about location scouting for games. But my brain got ahold of one little twist in the conversation, and then drifted off to a little incident and then... Like, when...
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