![[Photo by Wesley Chan: taking notes at the cubes]](23_9_6975856_cubist.jpg)
Wesley's photo shows Teresa Torres, Alexandra Dixon, (a sliver of Brian Larson,) and Eric Prestemon taking notes at one of the cubes
| Arrived: 10:34 | Solved: 10:55 | Hints? No | Official Game Control site: Wonder_Twin_Cubes |
Wesley's photo shows Teresa Torres, Alexandra Dixon, (a sliver of Brian Larson,) and Eric Prestemon taking notes at one of the cubes
At Greer Park in Palo Alto, there was a little art installation: a couple of identical cube lattices made of foam core, adorned with numbers. Each cube was divided into 27 cubelets, some containing no numbers, some containing a few. We carefully noted the numbers.
Teresa Torres of Team Orange Crush was there, jotting down the contents of the cubes on her notepad. When she finished, she walked down the hill to share her data with the rest of her team. I looked around. At least three members of Mystic Fish took notes--redundant notes. Why did we have so many people doing the same thing? On the other hand, if we weren't taking notes, what would we do? Hold a civilized conversation? After being awake for so long, I wasn't sure I was capable of that. I continued taking my redundant notes.
Each cube had all the numbers one through 36, with no duplicates. So maybe it was a 36-letter message, which each cubelet representing one letter.
And in about as much time as it took to voice that theory, the word puzzlers were sure that it was right, and had theories about which cubes mapped to which letters. These people were all over a single substitution cipher. We called up Game Control, and had our next destination: the Global Blends Coffee in Mountain View. We were to order a coffee there "Justice Style".
If I had blinked, I would have missed that puzzle.
