Mystery Puzzles: Day 3
Aug/09
12:280
10:00 AM – Mystery Puzzle #11 – 6×6x6 Scrambling
Eric Johnson, Miles Casanas
1st) Eric Johnson, DNF
1st) Miles Casanas, DNF
12:00 PM – Mystery Puzzle #12 – Lars Poker
10 competitors played a betting game using serial numbers on $2 bills.
1st) Nick Young
12:35 PM – Mystery Puzzle #13 – Chopsticks/Fork & Spoon Solving
Asian cubers were given a fork & spoon, and others were given chopsticks, and had to solve a cube using only those utensils.
1st) Justin Adsuara, 2:3x (Fork and Spoon)
2nd?) Andrew Nelson, 6:18.03 (Chopsticks)
1:05 PM – Mystery Puzzle #14 – Trick Round Scrambles
Tyson Mao and Chris Krueger had to scramble an entire round of cubes (5 scrambles). They were given 5 cubes and told that the cubes must match the images on the scramble sheets.
Tyson’s scramble sheet, however, had an identity algorithm written instead of the correct algorithm.
1st) Chris Krueger, 1:00.22
2nd) Tyson Mao, DNF
2:20 PM – Mystery Puzzle #15 – Unfolded Cube Sudoku
Competitors were given a new, difficult puzzle based on Sudoku.
1st) Ravi Fernando, 5:20.56
2:35 PM – Mystery Puzzle #16 – Ring Puzzle
Shotaro Makisumi and Emerson Hermann were shown the two pieces of a linking puzzles, apart and together to form a ring. They had to figure out how to assemble them.
1st) Shotaro Makisumi, 16.50
3:00 PM – Mystery Puzzle #17 – Triangle Assembly
Competitors were given 14 identical (right isosceles triangular) plastic pieces and were asked to assemble them into a single solid shape.
1st) Kristina Hays, 3:38.81
3:10 PM – Mystery Puzzle #18 – Bob Burton Event
7 questions about Bob Burton, a quiz.
1st) Tim Reynolds
2nd) Andrew Nelson
3rd) Ian Winokur
4:00 PM – Mystery Puzzle #19 – Stefan Pochmann Event
5 questions about Stefan, a quiz.
1st) Bob Burton
2nd) Lucas Garron
3rd) Lars Vandenbergh
4:10 PM – Mystery Puzzle #20 – TouchCube
International competitors were given TouchCubes to solve, in dramatic dark lighting.
1s) Stefan Pochmann
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