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seekingferret) wrote2019-07-16 01:56 pm
seekingferret) wrote2019-07-16 01:56 pm
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My local puzzle hunting team met again this past week. One friend joined me last Wednesday, three others joined me Sunday, to work on the July issue of Panda Magazine. I solved the meta last night, and then backsolved the remaining puzzle. I haven't told the rest of the team yet about the backsolve, I'm seeing if they can solve the puzzle on their own.
My team was more productive as a team this time. Three other teammates solved a puzzle, and they did all but the final extraction on several more- I then jumped in and helped find the final answers. So I only solved about half the puzzles completely on my own. That was to some degree the result of strategic choices on my part, like with the choice not to tell them about the final backsolve. In one case, I spotted a final answer 45 minutes before my teammate finally got it, but I let her keep working because she seemed on track to figure it out on her own. I'm trying to give everyone more space to work on puzzles and not trample over them by just working at my own speed. That way they'll get more comfortable with what this sort of puzzle looks like and how to approach them. I also spent time teaching solving tools- introducing people to nutrimatic and Onelook and qat, as well as some more specialized tools that I learned about from Palindrome (and in some cases were developed by people on Palindrome).
I really enjoy having local puzzle friends.
My team was more productive as a team this time. Three other teammates solved a puzzle, and they did all but the final extraction on several more- I then jumped in and helped find the final answers. So I only solved about half the puzzles completely on my own. That was to some degree the result of strategic choices on my part, like with the choice not to tell them about the final backsolve. In one case, I spotted a final answer 45 minutes before my teammate finally got it, but I let her keep working because she seemed on track to figure it out on her own. I'm trying to give everyone more space to work on puzzles and not trample over them by just working at my own speed. That way they'll get more comfortable with what this sort of puzzle looks like and how to approach them. I also spent time teaching solving tools- introducing people to nutrimatic and Onelook and qat, as well as some more specialized tools that I learned about from Palindrome (and in some cases were developed by people on Palindrome).
I really enjoy having local puzzle friends.
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