FROM - DrMoleculeNYCGreetings. I have thought about creating some kind of treasure hunt in NYC for a while, but if there is an established (and very impressive) network here already, then I'd be a fool not to look into it.
If possible, please inform me as to how I can learn more or get into contact with the appropriate individuals. Thanks very much!
Game Control, this could have been you and your flashing keypad under the BQE.
"...the first magnetic object, which looked like circuit boards with protruding wires, attached to a girder under Interstate 93 in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston. A police bomb squad responded and blew up the device..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/31/AR2007013101958.html
Game Control, this could have been you and your flashing keypad under the BQE.
"...the first magnetic object, which looked like circuit boards with protruding wires, attached to a girder under Interstate 93 in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston. A police bomb squad responded and blew up the device..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/31/AR2007013101958.html
Game Control, this could have been you and your flashing keypad under the BQE.
"...the first magnetic object, which looked like circuit boards with protruding wires, attached to a girder under Interstate 93 in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston. A police bomb squad responded and blew up the device..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/31/AR2007013101958.html
FROM - LornGreenBrooklyn - 67.101.77.34Is it possible to register as a team? I have some people that are down. I'm wicked down. No clue where to begin. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks!
How do u register to play each year?
Any word on posting those clues?
Hey boston - why don't you stop hiding behind the name of the town which for some reason continues to harbor you?
I have a funny feeling that you were on my team this year, though I can't be certain. One thing I can be certain about, however, is that if you were, it was your last stint with us.
You might think that assisting in cost defrayment or changing clue distribution would make the game better but let me throw in my two cents and let me also be serious on this message board for the first time in my life: the only thing that will improve this game is if people like yourself stay the fuck away from it.
Maybe I'll see you next year... If some other team will be as dumb as we were in letting you play with them.
It's a game based on a movie from the 80's where you run around solving puzzle in the dark while in teams named after colors.
I can see why you would be so concerned about protecting the /integrity/ of the game.
Midnight madness culture is not for sale motherfuckers!
God forbid people chip in for the truck rental or the materials costs. It may only cost a few dollars each, but it would sure cheapen the experience. The indignity of it all.
I aired my thoughts on the topic because more than once I was faced with the choice of playing to win or playing in manner I considered "right". Ambushing every team into oblivion is playing to win. Not buying all the clues immediately even though you had plenty of money from ambushing other teams is playing "right". In an ideal situation that decision would be irrelevant.
I'm going to give you one more chance to work on that whole hint/clue pun business, but if you fuck it up again, I'm revoking your privliges.
Tip jars? T-shirts? Holy Humdrum, Batman, you can understand the rules and still miss the concept. Buy all the hints you want, you're missing a clue.
Not on the other side, so I can't turn down admission fees, and fuck knows I'd pay them because it's worth it. But I know if I were on GC I wouldn't want them unless it were absolutely necessary b/c it's bad enough everyone riding on their initiative and then thinking they can do it all better.
But more relevantly, on the playing side, I wouldn't want a prize either. We don't need an "I survived MM9" souvenir. Keep it pure.
Viveca
Out of line and over her head
oh! i forgot, very special thanks to midnight blue also, for hooking us up. you know what i mean.
The game was truly a blast, with lots of really creative puzzles (I really liked the flashing lights puzzle). Tons of props to GC for putting up with my requests for clues, too. The only thing that was kinda off was the cred system, and I was thinking of a way to fix it, since the scavenger hunting for clues was a cool idea. I'm not sure if this will work, but here goes...
First, the winner can only steal however much the loser has. No robbery on credit.
When an ambush occurs, the winner loses half of the credit difference between Attack and Defense accounts, while the loser "donates" twice the difference to the winner, again limited by his total funds.
One big advantage is that teams could no longer become arbitrarily rich by feeding on the weak and powerless. Now, instead, the monied teams are the targets.
Suppose that we have two teams, Team Midnight Gray vs. Team Cinnibar. Say Midnight Gray's been doing very well, and Cinnibar not so well.
Midnight Gray's accounts look like:
C: 400 A: 1000 D: 1000
Cinnibar's accounts look like:
C: 20 A: 0 D: 20
So, suppose that Midnight Gray ambushes Cinnibar. Well, the difference in balance is 980, so MG could steal up to 1960 cred. Alas, Cinnibar only has 40. However, MG also loses half of those 980 credits as an ambushing cost! They're up 40, but they're also down 490.
Now, as revenge, Cinnibar tracks and attacks MG. Here, there's a credit difference of 1000, and MG has a phyrric victory, since they lose 500 of those and gain nothing from the already-impovrished Cinnibar.
Suddenly, the strategy becomes a lot more subtle. Do you really want to attack with everything? How much should you leave in defense? Is it better to collect just enough for one hint at a time, or it is worth it to take the risk of stockpiling for that clue you really need?
Does anyone have thoughts, suggestions, ways to change this up?
And yes, although we were apparently the only ones to ambush Team Black, we decided not to call it in. They seemed... well... slightly too happy about it:)
Isn't Team Baby Blue from Boston?
Midnight Madness is a game, not homework. If you want to just sit around and solve clues, you can do that online any time of day.
Also...if you ever do win MM, you'll realize that you don't need any sort of prize. We won MM8 and that feeling of not only completing the puzzles but coming in first...it's pretty freakin' awesome...we rode that high until we came in second to preppy Plaid. ("Next time, Gadget. Next time!")
On another note:
I know everyone's bashing Team Black but...
I think it's important to note that it's teams like Black (and, less obviously, Cerulean) that make the game interesting every year. Never knowing what kind of shit TB is going to fling keeps me on my toes. Every good reality show, sports franchise and movie needs a good villian. Black fills that bill admirably (and by choice...or so it seems).
And Cerulean...well, they "bring it" year after year. In my head, they're always the team to beat.
I still haven't entirely decided if the game was fun or not. I keep looking forward to reading all the garbage from the sore losers (team black) and the gossip about how someone (brian) of team gilt-phallus couldn't get it up (any coincidence that all the girls were "busy" when he so desperately needed them?), so I'll probably decide it was pretty fun in another week or two.
That is neither here nor there.
I liked the format of the game, these are not complaints so much as a list of what I'd do if I ruled the world (you know, besides freeing all my sons). I'm not actually volunteering to do any of them, so don't feel obligated to even read it.
I liked the fuzzy linearity of the game. Parallel paths of execution for shorter story lines were key.
I would like to see the game control hints removed. Often when we arrived at a new destination, we doodled a couple notes, discussed the puzzle and then waited for the epiphany. This usually resulted is us sitting there until we felt we'd given it a fair shake before requesting a hint. Instead of doing this: I would like to see each of the bigger puzzles be like the penny hunt. Difficult to understand what to do and yet once you know exactly what to do, it's still a difficult physical implementation problem. Instead of requesting hints about how to solve each of the bigger puzzles, I think each bigger puzzle should contain multiple smaller puzzles like crosswords, porno movie titles, flip book sorting, maybe some EE logic puzzles, a puzzle that requires some sort of computation, etc. Basically, smaller puzzles that have simple and explicit instructions but still take time to complete (less trickery, more work). Once you solve these mini puzzles you are rewarded with the instructions for the main puzzle. This would allow for us to really /work/ on the puzzle instead of just gazing at it. Gazing would still be allowed as the smaller puzzles would be optional and only for your own edification.
I also would not mind some differentiation between clues that were hidden and clues that ended up at a puzzle that required solving.
These aren't revolutionary ideas and it is how some of it worked out. When I look at the sections that were fun for the whole team and those that were a drag, it seems like more consistency in this are would be more fun for everyone.
I also think teams should be required to bring a computer. This could really up the ante on the puzzles. Most teams had one anyhow, so it might as well set the bar.
To replace ambushing, it would be fun to have some physical challenges to pit team against team. Racing against the clock is fun, but for those of us with ADHD, sub-games are the sweetest plum. Obviously the specific implementation of ambushing didn't work out, but it was a good idea.
There were lots of cool puzzles in the game, so I hope you guys stay motivated to put them on. I'm only critical because I care! Come on, give me a hug. I can only imagine how much time and energy it took. I showed up late and left early and I was still useless for 2 days. I'd like to suggest there be entry fees next year to defray the costs and if desired, to possibly have t-shirts for finishers or some such.
Blah blah blah....
Mo' money, Mo' money, Mo' money.
gamecontrol, thank you for that hawt night in the dark alley where you groped me and took my lunch money.
i love this game and i love gamecontrol. one of the things i love about you GC is you really listen. every year you take into consideration things we ask for. last year, i asked for a smaller play area and you gave us a very tight area in brooklyn. this year, i asked to play more of the night with my entire team, and yet again. thank you. smooches.
thank you for creating conditions under which Big D could help our team advance by dropping trou while climbing a new york city street tree. and for two of my members to perform gluttony, envy, wrath and lust, in that order, using cheeseburgers. the wrathful street fight was so convincing, GC had to pull Red Sonia off Bulldick Fullschtick and ask someone to restrain Bulldick. luckily the only injury incurred was a bloodied lip and that was from the lusty part of the performance, which elicited an "ew gross" from the audience. not sure if this was because they still had cheeseburgers in their mouths, their hand positions or too much tongue.
sadly, the market for street cred was highly volatile. this dramatic performance only raked in $8 which did not seem like much, esp since i got $5 for a soaked tampon, freshly extracted and presented in lieu of a bloodied bandage (in a ziploc, of course). meanwhile, apparently pictures of chicken bones were going for $10.
thanks to the other teams for the competitive energy and cheerful anal-reaming. congrats to the winners.
a special shout out to new and old friends on teams Buttercup, Clear, Ochre, Spicy Mustard and Olive. we enjoyed working with you! Buttercup and Clear especially, we bonded when we realized we were tied for the coveted last-to-finish glory. team olive, i'm glad i didn't get a chance to talk trash before the game about how you were part of my team last year and now you think you're hot shit. i'm glad b/c part of that post would have held me to committing hari-kari from the shame of being beaten by my splinter group. respect.
all in all, it was a good year. the only equipment that failed was the member of one of my members, who tried to get it up twice for street cred. too many distractions and all our ladies too busy solving puzzles to help out as fluffers.
where possible, we kept solving puzzles even when it was clear we were falling behind. next year, we need to trust our first hunches more _and_ be more diligent in their execution.
thank you to kamalesh for your cultural puzzles. i look forward to them every year. the porn clue really re-invigorated us. it was one of those moments where the careful gender balance i try to maintain on my team really pays off. 3 women and 2 men sat around with the women tossing out film names and the men pornifying them. the women got pretty good at the pornification toward the end. good knowledge share.
thanks again all you assfuckers and see you next year.
tam
captain, team G(oldenrod)
You guys should be banned from future games for taking a fun night and not following the rules FUCK YOU BABY BLUE!!!!!!!
I just woke up so I haven't had a chance yet to weigh in on the game.
I felt bad for teams who did a good job figuring out how to game the system with the ambush stuff only to have the rules changed on them. I say that as a team that was 800 points in the hole. Shame on us for not figuring it out sooner. It isn't like we didn't have enough time before the game started to strategize. Bravo to olive and black for putting together a winning strategy so quickly.
I get really frustrated every year with the way clues are hidden. I feel like we waste so much time searching for a clue simply because GC gave us an ambiguous location and hid the clue really well. I understand hiding it from muggles and civillians, but why hide it so well from us? Just give us precise instructions about where to look. It's tedious and annoying and not at all a real challenge.
The penny trail was a perfect example. We understood what to do, but still kept walking right over pennies and missing them and spending way too much time looking.
While I'm on the subject of pennies... Our team solved the flipbook with the first two books so we abandoned the pennies and headed off to the next location. Then we were told by GC that even though we had solved the flipbook, we still had to finish the penny trail. Why? It seemed pointless to do this to us and cost us valuable time at a point in the game we felt we were in competition for the lead.
The next zone we received a packet with only two clues, and spent forever working without the third puzzle. When we told GC about this, they informed us that other teams only got 2 of the 3 puzzles as well, but htey had no sympathy for the time we may have lost. We were still desperate to compete for the lead at that point, and really felt demoralized when we realized we were way out of contention especially after the time we wasted both on pennies and on working with 2/3 of the puzzle.
And my final gripe would be the sticker on Morton. Again, why not just tell us exactly where to look? We've already solved the puzzle!! Why force us to search for a hidden sticker with no idea what we are looking for?? All we were told by GC was "think about where Game Control would hide it." Hide what? We looked for a physical clue for over 2 hours before someone on our team spotted it. We lost every ounce of enthusiasm during those two hours and the game ceased to be any fun. It was tedious and didn't seem to make any sense. Congrats to teams who found the sticker no problem. You deserved to win.
Anyways, I appreciate all the work you guys put in to this year's game. I hope if you do it again next year you take some of these suggestions into conisderation and maybe playtest the game for time as well.
Congrats to Plaid. We will get you guys next year.
As a member of a team that is not so smart and has rarely been in the running for a first place finish, I think that the biggest flaw with this year's system was the fact that there was no mechanism for getting the answer if you were totally stumped, except begging GC, which just makes everybody feel bad. The standardized hints worked fine, but you should have been able to buy a solution eventually (maybe after 2 hrs, like it was in the old days, so the teams who had ambushed their way into a huge amount of cred couldn't just buy solutions right off the bat). That way, you can at least keep moving through the game, and have a shot at a respectable finish if you solve other clues really fast. What do others think?
if you liked midnight madness, you'll love come out and play. check out the schedule - there are puzzle hunts, scavenger hunts, massive games of wherewolf, assasin-esque games and also tons of crazy new designs for playing in the public streets. YEAH!
http://www.comeoutandplay.org/
Can some one map out the penny route?
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com
I don't remember the whole thing.
Also' We're number 2!
We tagged you. We have video on our phone of the entire incident and GC saw it. They were as pissed as us.
ANd now to quote you:
"...we never felt compiled to give you our password..."
what does compiled mean?
I feel compelled to tell you that you should learn to spell. And we do not feel proud of the fact that we made someone cry. When all we did was tap someone on the shoulder and told them we ambushed them and they ran off crying it made me laugh....... To me that is funny.
Sad.
But funny.
And if you can't take the hostility you should try a different game like SOLITAIRE......
you geek fuck!!!!!
If anyones team name fit them perfectly it is yours
BABYblue.
Any chance we can get the clue by clue team rankings as reported by the SMS system?
FROM - Baby BlueBaastonFirst: Props to GC for putting together a great night And day! It was a real endurance event and our whole team had a blast!
Second: Well, I guess there's no point in telling cycoSteve to chill out. However, I just wanted to say that it was decided at the beginning of the game that in order to ambush somebody, you have to physically tag them. Since you never tagged anybody on our team, we never felt compiled to give you our password. So, check the rules before you go kicking and screaming at GC.
Now, I do want to say that threating people and swearing at people during the game is not cool. (apparently, you made somebody cry and you are proud of this???) We are just a bunch of geeks trying to have a good time, we don't want your hostility.
I think GC should consider a tip jar at least. You could could use the money to break even or kick the production level up a notch.
I had a great time. I have decided to pretend like the pennies thing never happened. Thanks for all of the hard work. It was a blast.
Now that I know it would of behooved us to have 15-40 people on our team, I would have possibly been a bit more aggressive in recruiting.
Next year, we're reinstating a conscription so we can be sure of having sufficient manpower to wage a Midnight Madness on multiple fronts.
That was supposed to be a positive-sounding post, because MM rocks so hard I shake for weeks. (I posted only the short "analysis" bit from a longer, raving email.) Infinite respect is due Game Control for putting on an awesome game again this year. The playing area was prime and the puzzles crafty and delicious.
The ambush system was broken because it was nonlinear in the successful teams favor.
The bottlenecks in puzzle paths was kind of annoying, because we didn't know they existed and spent time trying to solve incomplete puzzles. If they're clear, bottlenecks are kind to smaller teams, because there's only one puzzle to work on.
Street cred gave everyone stuff to do all the time and everywhere.
I found some pictures from last year on Flickr, and I've solved the puzzle of the tagging system. There are 3 tags, the 3rd one keys on team name:
midnightmadness midnightmadness9 teamgoldenrod
not that i even participated in this clue for my team, but tomato is not always red. just as there are red, yellow, green and white onions there are green, yellow, orange and red tomatos...just sayin'...
Onion is not clearly a primary color, it can be red, but it can also be green, or white. Tomato is red.
Hertz is yellow, they even had an ad campaign calling themselves yellow.
You might be able to call BP green, but the last I checked green is not a primary color.
However, it does look like Police accidentally crosses corn. This is an actual mistake.
I might be wrong but I think the crossword doesn't actually give you morton. There is a C in there where "corn" crosses "police" right? And so many of those words were ambiguous. Why does tomato count but not onion? Why hertz but not BP?
And that sticker was by no means easy to find.
Reckoning Zone
Jive - The envelope pointed you to Riverview Church, where you found a phone number on a loose brick, a common hiding place for drug deal information. You call the number and you get a message about a deal using street slang for various things. If you took the first letters of each street slang word it sent you to West and Barrow.
XWord - First you solve the crossword. The clues of the crossword were made to be really easy. The title of the xword was Secondary Colors which are made from mixing primary colors. So you look at the intersections of all words that denote a primary color, tomato (red), hertz (yellow) etc. The answer was MORTON. Then you had to search MORTON street for a sticker. The location of the sticker was purposefully chosen to be at the most obvious landmark on the street, a government mental health agency that has a huge ramp in front of it that stands out. With teams of 15-40 people it should be easy to find this.
Magnum - There was a Magnum and Adam West. You get West Street from Adam West and 357 from magnum. 357 West Street. 44 West street is not in the zone.
Posters - You now have the locations of 3 similar posters and a sheet of letters that is the same size as the posters. You need to spot the differences in the three posters and overlay the letter posters. Circle the letters that are located where a poster difference is. This will give you CHAMBERS and HUDSON RIVER or something like that.
Great game this year, GC. A few suggestions from the team that WON...
1. Cred was good, much better as a way to get hints then the timer system from last year. Being able to get negative cred is a problem, though, because it can effectively remove you from the game even at the beginning. If you made it so the losing team in an ambush lost twice the difference but could never go below zero, while the winning team lost half the attack fund, there'd be more of a possibility for ambushed teams to scrap back into it. It would also make it harder for there to be a truly enormous cred gap (though it could still be possible if you were VERY attentive to who you were attacking).
2. The problem w/ the pennies, and to a lesser extent w/ the fly in the pi (which I thought was great theoretically), was that once you figured the damned thing out you still had to spend the next hour DOING the thing you already understood. That's just repetitive work. No thinking, no searching for hidden stuff, no attacking, no climbing trees or running to the finish line. Just never-ending repetition.
Chuck that for next year, eh?
Power Zone
Porn - You need to figure out the pornized movie title that went with each movie plot summary. The highlighted letters in the title (always part of the letters that were different from the non-porn version) indicated the next location.
Categories - Each group of words can be put into a category that can be described by a single word. The first category was all words that when combined with the word HARD formed a movie title, the cateogry was HARD. The next category was all towns in FRANCE, one category was all related to CHESS, one was PRONOUN, and the last was HETERONYM. While homograph would have also worked, heteronym is a more precise answer as homograph covers words that are spelled the same but differ in any way (origin, meaning, etc), heteronyms are words that are spelled the same and differ only in meaning and pronunciation. The you follow the pink line around and it will hit the letters in order spelling out MANOR CHURCH.
Twister - You need to figure out what comes before each line of text. The first two are easy, Peter Piper... and Sally. The third is Thirty-Three, although three or thirty alone would work, thirty-three is the most alliterative answer of the three. So you get, Peter Sally 33. PS 33.
Wheel - The three parts to this clue are a piece of paper with 6 colored symbols on it, a water wheel with stickers on it, and a word lock that requries a 5-letter word.
Going down the colored symbols, you need to spin the wheel so that the symbol appears in the triangle, then look at which word appears in the colored slot indicated by the color of the symbol on the paper.
you get the following words in order:
LLAMA
ZEBRA
INGOT
TALL
AMAZE
BRAIN
Then you need to figure out what word comes next.
the sequenc of words is actually a repeating sequence of letters..
LLAMAZEBRAIN GOTTA LLAMAZEBRAIN
So the next word would be GOTTA.
Enter this into the word lock. The remove the hasp part of the mechanism and get the codeword AURA.
Again, full images of the clues will be posted eventually.
Money Zone
Palindromes - hidden in the text were many palindromes. Locate all the palindromes, and look at their first letter. These will spell the next location.
Corn Clue - This was a list of pairs of crossword puzzle type clues. The first one, when solved gave you COB and VAIN. All the pairs of answers were musician's names with an extra letter. This was COBvAIN. The letter is V. Solving all of these gave you VILLAGE CHURCH.
Pennies - The text tells you to follow lincoln's gaze through the years. On the ground there is a group of pennies, one of which is 2006 and head's up. Follow the direction that the head is pointed down the street and you will find another group of pennies. One of these will be 2005, follow the direction that it's head points. This will lead you to another group od pennies, one of which will be 2004. Etc. This will lead you to the clue. Watch out for the decoy pennies.
Flipbook - You received three chunks of a flipbook. When flipped they showed you a pie being eaten. There was also a number in the corner. The cover page told you to order in Pi, as opposed to pie. So you put the flipbok pages in the order of Pi (it was given on the cover page) and then flip - you will see a moving dot spell out EYEBEAM.
Circle Grid - There was a 4x5 grid with each square containing a number of concetric circles. If you filled in the squares that had the same radius circle, you would see a letter. Repeat for the different radius circles. It will spell CAESURA.
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| | | |/ _ \ \ / / _ \ / _` |/ _` | '_ ` _ \ / _ \
_| |_ | | (_) \ V / __/ | (_| | (_| | | | | | | __/
|_____| |_|\___/ \_/ \___| \__, |\__,_|_| |_| |_|\___|
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/ __/ _ \| '_ \| __| '__/ _ \ | |
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THANK YOU...........
That was all I wanted to know. Assfuckers!!
:-)
Just kidding. Though changing the rule fucked us because we spent so much time ambushing instead of solving the clues... So we might have come in third instead of 5th
And like I said in my first post I didn't care that we came in 5th. I was more pissed that I had to leave early at 2:45pm...... and wasn't able to cross the line.
Long live cyko. Trashtalking is what builds the hype.
I don't mind if you call gamecontrol assfuckers. We are assfuckers, we changed the rule because it was a bad rule. If you mug someone in the street, you can only get what they have on them, you can't put them into debt. That is how it should have worked.
That would have prevented ambushing right at the beginning when people had 0 dollars etc.
I don't like changing the rules. But it was necessary. I have nothing but respect for the teams that forced us to do this. You had the most cred. Plaid still kicked your ass on the puzzle solving though, solving the final clue an hour faster than most teams.
Flatbush? Caroll Gardens? I'm from Peekskill, so you better watch out. Although, knowing that so is @R!N, you probably are not that scared.
-M@+
The clues will be posted properly soon.
For now here is a list:
Respect Zone
Angel Clue - it was a riddle that told you that the mixed-up rain fell upon the aged. so you put rain on aged and un-mix them up and you get gardenia, a flower like it said. go to FIT and tell this to the angel.
Napkin Clue - we thought until the very last minute that it was the Starlight Diner, but it turned out to be the SkyLight Diner, simply interpret the definitions, the wild blue yonder was sky, not heavy was light, after you wine her is dine her, or diner. As in dine her, i don't even know her.
Courage Clue - The words around the circle can be paired into two words that combined by placing one word after the second letter of the other word gives you a new word. The example is cOURage from OUR and cage. Some of the other words are:
mASSage
lAPTop
pIONeer
fRANKly
When you draw a line between the pairs, it will pass through a letter. Read the letters in order around the circle and you get TED STEEL, which is a business and can be 411ed.
Magic Eye - This is just a stereogram, like in the movie mallrats. When you see the image you see a 35 between a 7 and 8 in 3D space and three mailboxes. The next clues was behind 3 mailboxes on 35ht between 7th and 8th.
Origami - You need four pieces to solve this. 2 instructions sheets and 2 sets of 3 pieces of paper. One instruction sheets shows you how to fold the 6 pieces of paper into individual units. There is a black dot on the pages to line it up. The other instruction sheet shows you how to assemble the units into a cube. You need to figure out which piece goes where according to the lines on the pieces, like a puzzle. One face of the cube is a spiral which helps line it up. When assembled correctly it should say EXIT ART.
Lightning - 9 anime girls are throwing lightning at a geek. The thunder follows the lightning. Using the difference between when the lightning is fired and when the thunder sounds you can put the flashes in order as to how far away the lightning was. So you have which lightning fired and in what order. The cycle reeats every 10 flashes, and there are 9 anime girls, so the anime girls are numbers 1-9 and placed in distance order gives you a phone number.
Next zone will be posted shortly
Just wanted to thank Mat and all the others at Game Control for their passion and dedication and devious freaking ingenuity. Thanks for involving us in your 15-hour work of performance art. Like the best art, it changes the way we see the world.
(Goddamn pennies all over the place...)
Irwin
Co-Captain, Team Spicy Mustard
An excerpt from the Currency Overhaul for an Industrious Nation (COIN) act of 2006:
HR 5818 IH 1
SEC. 3. CASH TRANSACTION ROUNDING.
4 2 (a) ROUNDING OF CASH TRANSACTION VALUES TO 3 NEAREST 5 CENTS REQUIRED
Notwithstanding any 4 other provision of law, any person selling goods or services 5 shall determine the total cash transaction value of such 6 goods or services in the following manner: 7 (1) TOTAL TRANSACTION VALUES.--The trans- 8 action values of goods and services shall be totaled, 9 any discount or deduction therefor made, and sales 10 tax or other tax imposed, if any, added to that total 11 in accordance with the law of the State in which 12 such goods or services are sold.
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For the first time in my life, I'm behind Rep. Jim Kolbe on something. If this weekend has taught me anything, it is that our lives are only worse off as a result of the existence of the penny. I would like to personally thank Gamecontrol for opening my eyes to the sinister nature of these ill-behaved copper discs. The sooner we rid ourselves of these despair-inducing tokens, the better.
And thanks in general to Gamecontrol; your days of planning for MM9 paid off. And Team Midnight Blue is truly relieved that, ultimately, we didn't cause the street cred economy to tank when we flooded the market with counterfeit bills. Thanks for accepting those, by the way.
Looking forward - as always - to next year,
Team Midnight Blue
Greetings and Salutations,
My third year in, and this one was pretty brutal. I ponder the thought of the Armed Forces using Midnight Madness as a test for their soldiers. All teams and members that participated, particularly those who lasted to the end, would definitely give them a run for their money.
A hearty thanks to Game Control for twisting our minds and bodies again this year. What a fucking mess, and what strokes of genius. The street-cred system definitely put a new kink in the works; probably added another eight hours to the game. This may not have been the best situation, given the dangers that one faces after hours of exaustion (both mental and physical, a scary combination). I don't know if a pre-game heads up for something like that is needed, since it does ruin the element of surprise that is characteristic of MM, but just the same, it should be thrown out there. Otherwise, it was an interesting kink. Creative, and surely gave you some fine entertainment for sixteen hours:
"Hmmmm,", a game controller wonders, riding the subway toward work two weeks before game time, "how could we possibly pass the time this year? It gets so boring and tedious after awhile, listening to team captains bitch about this and that, and the text server goes down, and someone can't find a clue hidden in a plastic folder hanging on a church fence because they must be blind or stupid or..., blah blah blah. What about skankily clad women... Oh wait, how about nudity? How about both?! Excellent! I'll send Mat an email as soon as I get to the office...". I like it. And yes, I got nude. And some skankily clad women passing by wanted to "take a picture of that pecker". Honored, really.
Pennies, pennies. The Fuckers. That's all I'm going to say about that.
One thing; Team Midnight Blue was never ambushed. Not a bragging right (mostly luck and running into friendly, kind-hearted teams (my thanks to the guy that returned my pants after running half a block with my pants whilst I did the "pic of team member performing act of public nudity" instead of ambushing me on the spot (see previous nudity entry))), but just wanted to make it clear, since someone wanted to brag about it. It just goes to show what the game is all about. Strategizing for ambushing other teams isn't really the priority, is it? It comes down to solving clues and staying awake, alive, and relatively sane in the end. Perhaps it was one too many diversions from the core of what MM is all about. Still, the shit-eating grin on Mat's face when he told us about this second "concept" was priceless.
Morton Street has haunted my dreams. I don't want to curse the handicapped, I really don't. I have love for them. Love and respect.
Regardless, I don't really have anything to bitch about, except getting the finish line location screwed up in my head, riding around the wrong part of Hudson River Park for an hour, seperated from my team and with no cell-phone power, so I can't find out where they are. Hours of punishment to the brain led to complete block of memory, where my knack for pulling up phone numbers in my head went hay-wire. Hence, the lack of final glory of seeing the finish line. "Passion is the enemy of precision" as Daryl Zero said. Don't I know it.
Again, thank you Game Control. I have no doubt that MMX will be something of an amazing, intricate and overwhelming yet much-anticipated event that will surpass previous years. Can't frickin wait.
And I want to publicly thank here on this bulletin board my bold and fearless Co-Captain Zak, and The Team, my Team, the strong and brave Team Midnight Blue. Through thick and thin, we made it through; I'm so fucking proud. Ya'll rock on with yr bad selves. Every year is our year.
dAve
Co-Captain, Team Midnight Blue
Thank you MAT, Nicole, Josh, Tamara, and the others of you whose names I never learned. We had a great night. We had a pretty good morning too until we had to leave to make an afternoon event in Long Island. That wasn't fun on no sleep, but the game sure was. I was disappointed that we didn't finish. We had the will power but hadn't budgeted enough time.
Low point: Figuring out how to solve the angel puzzle within 30 minutes but then spending three hours and tons of cred on hints and eventually buying the answer off another team seconds before one of our team members got the codeword. We'd mistimed it and had two digits switched.
High point: Seeing the cred list knowing almost our whole team are circus professionals. We got maximum points for two guys passing six juggling clubs while one was on a unicycle and decent cred for the photo of two team members juggling totally naked--in the middle of 20th Street.
This was my fourth (non-consecutive) MM, and I love that it always changes. I liked this year's format a lot better than last years because last year my team just divided into four sub-teams. It didn't make it less linear for any individual player, we all just only saw one-quarter of the clues and never saw each other. In 2002 and 2003, we only had one clue at a time to work on, and sometimes it got too frustrating. This was the perfect combo--having multiple clues most of the time but still all being able to work together as a team for a lot of it.
Ambushing was okay only I didn't think ambushees who beat their ambushers should get charged the 1/2 defense pot it costs to ambush since they never made the decision to ambush.
Street cred was great in the beginning and great for people who weren't into the clues (go figure) but it quickly became not as interesting when a. the stakes got too high (not for cred but for what was interesting) and b. we all wanted to solve clues instead.
Overall great game, great puzzles, great fun. 16 hours of sleep never felt so good.
Next year I'll be sure not to make plans the next day. Of course next year Puce will probably finish first at 6 am, so it won't be an issue.
Team Puce is on the loose!
Just so you know, we started with a suspiciously high amount of street cred that apparently came out of nowhere, but then the U.S. legal system screwed us into bankruptcy, and then we had to go to prison.
Way to go, Team Goldenron!
Excellent game, game control. Thanks for the times. Also, thanks for to the friendly people from Goldenrod, Black (once), Hong Ma (baby blue?), and the homeless people that helped us find pennies. See you guys next year.
Wow, what a totally amazing night! Thanks to GC.
Could GC post the clues and answers some time? We'd love to see them! And anyone who has photos, post URLs!
--One of the teams that didn't make it.
FROM - newbieNew YorkMost important - GC, thanks!!! Thanks for setting up such an awesome game and thanks for staying awake for all those hours keeping the game alive. It was my first time (omg an MM virgin) and it was unreal. I will definitely be back next year.
Feeback -
Safety: I witnessed one near accident of someone on a bike and I witnessed a fellow MM'er cause a biker to fall. oops. So we should all be more careful for the following reasons: our own personal safety, for the safety of others, and realistically, with the litigating in America and our own selfish ways of thought --- for MM not to have to end.
Penny: there should be a time limit granted to puzzles.
Street Cred: Not sure overall how well it worked, but it definitely added fun to the game and for people who didn't want to do puzzle work it allowed for varied tasks.
Overall, thanks to GC and to my own team who had commitment, desire, brains, and a sense of humor.
Oh and for showing me the tranny prostitutes at 7 am in Meatpacking area. With so few hours of sleep it was hard to tell...
GC - I'll email you the photo of the dog shitting that was wearing pants. I know after so many hours awake that's just what keeps you alert.
hey gamecontrol,
that was the best game ever, like attending a rock show by my favorite band and having it last 16 hours!!!
the clues and people were more beautiful than ever.
thanks on behalf of team ochre.
yours,
howard
Sirrix....... Don't start with me NOW............
Bomer............. Now I know who you are. We were talking at the end of it all.
You were one of the ones I meant when I said:
".....And there were a few guys on game control who sympathized with our problem and I apologize to them for having to lump you in with the rest of the Game control @#$%^&*."
We even bought you a pizza........ Geez.
So WTF you getting on my case for?
Dude just shut up. The game's over. See ya next year.
I here by apologize to Bomer for saying GC were a bunch of assfuckers. They are not.
All of this ranting and shit talking is due to information I was given at 3:30pm Sunday BY GAME CONTROL. Now reading the message board I am starting to see conflicting info. So you can't blame me too much.
Now will you explain to me why we were not able to buy hints? Even Matt asked why we weren't buying hints. AND why were all the other teams able to buy hints with no points I don't understand that. Why did we waste all that time coming up with a strategy to ambush teams if it wasn't going to help us out? If we "destroyed all the teams" by 10am why weren't they put out of their misery. No money no play. right?
Guess not.
Stop being so defensive and answer my questions. I think they are valid ones. I truly would not have gone on so harshly had I known you were a girl. Despite what you think I am a gentleman......
Official results:
14:02 Team Plaid
14:24 Team Red
14:28 Team Cerulean
14:31 Team Ochre
15:11 Team Black
15:18 Team Spicy Mustard
15:21 (tie?) Team Baby Blue / Team Jade
15:25 Team Midnight Blue
15:44 Team Bling
15:50 Team Pink
15:53 Team Goldenron
~1600 Team Maize
16:08 Team Marmelade
16:11 Team Clear
16:24 Team Butterup
16:50 Rest of GC arrives at finish line
Snow White added "much love", so the amended results are:
1. Team Plaid
2. Team Red
3-21. ????
So we're the preppy team?!? Wow. In this group, that may even be a little true. 20 teams just got their asses handed to them by a bunch of preppies. Does that really make it sting less?
No one needs to apologize for me, I ain't done nuthin' wrong except be OPEN and HONEST about my FEELINGS, which, in this snakepit of cockiness both literal and metaphorical, I should think would come as some relief!
DEAR GAME CONTROL I MISS YOU HOW MUCH WILL YOU GIVE ME IF I LET A CAR RUN OVER MY FOOT?
I'd apologize for Whittlz, but why bother. Also: I'm pretty sure we (read: I) never explained how cred/ambush/defense/importannt detais of the game worked to her (read: my team).
I figured, well, they have so little happiness in their lives, why cloud this night of all nights with boring details and rules - except of course, the paramount rule: no tampering with clues. That was beaten into their hides.
Everyone sux, you punks. Suck it.
I loved both the cred system and the ambush system. So let me some complicated suggestions:
1) Make the cost of hint-buying increase maybe 25% each time or on an upward-sliding scale (e.g. 25%, 50%, 100%, 200%...).
2) Have the ambushes lose their value every time you pull one off. Same thing- first time it's 100% of the difference, second time it's 75%, third is 50% or a sliding scale. This would lead to fewer mass-muggings and more focus on getting awesome scavenger hunt items, but leave the Ambush as a technique. It would also discourage early Ambushes since you would want to hit teams later when their hints are costing more. It would probably encourage teams to funnel more into defense as the night went on.
3) Revenge rule: if you later ambush a team that earlier ambushed you, you get back what they took from you plus a percentage of the difference (see rule 2).
3) Keep defense the same.
I believe the the Top Five were:
Plaid
Red
Cerulean
Ochre
Black
Team Plaid, congrats on winning, but don't ever count out Team Red...or my Chuck Norris shirt will kick your preppy backsides! We worked WAY too hard for a question mark. ;)
Much Love,
SW
I kinda dug the GC truck.
I feel ridiclously close to you guys, and yet in the 15 or so hours that I spent with you I never caught any of your names or you mine.
It would have been fun if it moved around though.
that would be us...buttercup was #15 at 4:34pm. at that point, we knew that every other team that was still in it had either solved the posters or accepted the finish-line answer from gc and after trying to solve it ourselves for over an hour we relented too.
it was my first year. grueling. and of course i'll do it again.
Actually, Amazed person, we did come in first one year.
1. Team Plaid.
2-21. ????
I mean, were there prizes for the other places? Did any *other* teams get something as great as Humpy the Dog?
We brought a couple of bikes this year, and that was all she wrote. GC may want to give something for 2nd place next year so the rest of youse have something to look forward to.
Can't decide if I like cred or hint timers better. One problem with cred was that most people on our team just wanted to do puzzles (so the people who did the rest were heroes). The ambush thing worked for us, but I think it was too extreme (agree that it probably makes more sense if it gained/lost a fixed, or at least less volatile, amount). Tough to come up with stuff that is fun, makes sense, and is manageable for GC. Agree that with hint timers, clues could be given out by text message, but having the GC truck to visit was fun too.
Strong work Game Control, strong work.
(Out of curiosity, if our team pic included all of us mooning you, would that have meant positive or negative cred? I wasn't sure, although Plaid member Bob definitely offered to streak for cred--we forgot to take him up on it though.)
Team Black has never won?? How do you explain that, TB?
At any rate, the winning order was (I think) Plaid, Red, Cerulean.
Btw, what time did the last team make it to the finish?
...given the fact that I needed so much help from other teams and cannot seem to stay out of credit card debt that I am not smart enough to understand the ambushing system. No need to get like all snippy n' shit. all ambushing was taking place in a game far, far away from the one I was playing in my mind for most of the night, the one entitled, "Why Did I Slice My Thumb Open For 3 Fake Dollars And Then Decide To Pick Up That Open Sack Of Concrete Mix? God I Am Some Kind Of Idiot!"
anyway. way to go, Team Black. you are the smartestest and also so VERY pretty, especially when you talk dirty. all the girls wanna get fucked in the ass by YOU.
LET IT BE KNOWN that Team Black take NO RESPONSIBILITY for the comments by CycoSteve.
We beat him every day and keep him in a cage only feeding him small scraps of raw meat to keep him an angry puzzle hunting machine for the one night a year we let him roam free. Every team should pray to have such a crazy rabid man to fight for them.
Team Black loves you all.
We also love to beat you all.
Here's a quick side note... but I think it's worth mentioning. A number of times over the hunt, particularly during the late hours of the penny search, I witnessed scary near-misses between MM players on bikes and random cars/trucks. One player from another team was using his cell phone, biked right through a red light and came really close to getting hit by a car traveling pretty fast. It would be horrible if there was an accident at MM. Some of you may be aware of or even be players in the "Game" - gamecontrol.com - a similar but somewhat more involved version of Midnight Madness. A serious and tragic accident happened during a game a few years ago. One of the many pieces of fallout was that the Game, which had been going on for over a decade, stopped completely. My point is this: The combination of sleep deprivation + laser-focus on solving a puzzle + more and more cars on the street as you move from 3am to 11am creates a bit of a perfect storm. Riders should stay aware of this and be extra-careful. If anyone else has suggestions for keeping MM safe, I'd be interested in hearing them.
The only results that matter is that next year
Team Black will school you
did i not say that GC loves when team black stirs it up in my comments as well fool? just don't appreciate you ranting at the folks u work so hard to allow u to do this in the first place - if we charged admission that's one thing, but as pointed out it's free & we do not favor any team over any of the others! your insinuation that we try to screw team black each year is baseless & weak - in fact, i was the one during the planning that mentioned to the other GC's that perhaps this would be team black's year to take it & that would be cool as you've all played so many time w/out a victory! i used to work w/ arin & think he & the others on your team are awesome!
in closing:
* chuck taylors are a classic that will never die no matter how many idiots choose to wear them...
* i too was born & bred in bklyn - but in a way cooler area might i add...
* i'm a girl u dolk, whose dick is definitly bigger than yours!
note: this is my last comunication w/ mr. cyco - pls go away you're starting to smell.....
Who finished? What places? What times?
Actually, having zero points didn't matter. Hence the problem w/ the cred system.
So long as Black's offense number was higher than Clear's defense, then they "win" twice the difference between those two numbers. Since you stayed at zero the whole time, that only helped them get more money. (If they had 500 offense and tagged you they would then end up with 250 offense, but a gain of $1000. Your defense stays at zero, but your bank would be at -$1000. GC changed this around 10am so that you didn't have to have $1000 to get a clue - which is why the cred thing got changed.)
But in fairness, as GC said in a post below - team black didn't have anything to do with it. Read up - Olive beat you to it. "Team black did the same 5 hours later" was what I believe was said...
Better luck being just a bit more clever next year...
Can't thank you enough for the help, Twitch. Can't believe you had time, what with your busy ass-fucking schedule.
ps: CycoSteve, I do hope you appreciated the way Team Clear foiled every and all attempts at ambushing by having exactly 0 points for you to steal. It was really a spectacular strategy on our part, and one I've used often in life. Remember: the credit card companies can't find you if you're dead.
Damn, just woke up...
For all my frustration as an architect of Black's cred rampage, I need to give mad props to Mat and Game Control. If you take away the broken cred thing, I think most veterans will agree that this was the best organized, most generally flawless MM yet. I think Game Control really has their shit together in terms of the core game mechanics, logistics and puzzles. While some of the puzzles were challenging, they were all solvable given enough time and focused brainpower (something that we were running short of by noon Sunday). The event started ON TIME -- WTF OMG! -- and the clues were creative as ever. I can make oragami boxes so well I make little Japanese school girls cry.
Ironically, team black did much better at the puzzles without the hints from Game Control. Most of the clues we got were either useless (we had already figured all that out) or completely derailed us and sent us in the totally wrong direction.
I'm also somewhat glad we didn't just buy our way to the finish line, because at 4 am, when we had amassed something like 2.5 billion cred, we had only seen about 1/4-1/3 of the clues. Ultimately, we would have missed out on a lot of great clue-hunting/solving. That said, it would have been nice if the cred could have bought us at least a zone, giving us a significant lead over other teams. Would have even been happy to share that lead with the few other teams who "worked the system" like us.
I really did like the competive aspect that ambushing brought to the game... but I think it needs to be more sophisticated. For example, a requirement should have been that attackers need to out number defenders. Clearly, this would have to be combined with team size limits. Likewise, a few monte carlo simulations should be run on the math mechanics to ensure that runaway exploits don't occur.
All in all, it was a great game. I'm excited to see what Mat/GC has in store for next year.
I give my thanks with all the cred in my wallet (which after buying all our clues was still something like 5.8 trillion cred).
Black Out. Till next year.
Hey - Bomer "The Hammer" of Game Control:
chuck taylors are for posers!!!
I'M FROM CARROLL GARDENS.... born and bred...... I got some better shoes for you....... cement ones.
I can't believe this has gotten to the point of physical confrontation.....grow up and learn to take a joke. Did I not congratulate and thank you guys for your "Herculean" effort in that same message saying how much of a good job GC did with the street cred items and clues?
Did i not say that if i made amistake about you guys I would be the first to apologize?
Instead of making physical threats to me why don't you spend the time trying to prove to me that GC did not modify the rules to benefit all the teams that had their points ambushed by team Black.
I get mad props from GC every year for talking shit on here and now that the shit talk is aimed at GC you throw a hissy fit?????
WTF......
I'm here to have fun and part of that fun is here to talk shit.......
I have messages from GC every year asking when i am gonna get on the message board to stir shit up.......
well I stirred the shit up and because it landed in your lap you threaten me.... nice
TO all the other teams...... Make sure to run your message by - Bomer "The Hammer" of Game Control before you post it here to get his approval.
RIDICULOUS!!!!
We were the team that helped you out at the Riverview. See? We're actually very nice people.
Now, um, everyone fuck yourself or something (well we do have a rep to protect).
'Assfucker'
First, I'd like to apologize on behalf of Team Spicy Mustard to everyone who worked so hard this weekend, both on the Game Control side to the Game playing side. I am sad that this happened and that our team was involved, and, trash talk aside, I hope that this can be understood in its true context and that there was absolutely no malicious intent.
I've just received an explanation of what happened from the member of my team about the incident in question.
Since I wasn't there I'll share with you his email:
"This was me. I'm happy to clarify everything that happened, but I really don't have time to do this until later tonight.
To give you a general idea, I did not know the plastic bag I took contained the clue when I took it. I took it over to a nearby bench to check it out. The clue, which was a black case, did turn out to be in the bag. I took one envelope out of the case, closed it, and returned it to the exact same spot and exact same condition behind a tree in the alley.
The clue was removed from it's placement for a total of about two minutes. I had NO intention of tampering with or misleading other teams. Once I realized the clue was in the bag, I returned it immediately.
If this did give our team an advantage, I would say it was by less than a minute. In my mind, this isn't much different than picking up a folder off the ground and stepping to the side to take out what's in there and count how many are left.
Should I have taken the bag from the alley to the bench? In hindsight, no I shouldn't have. I should have gone through the bag right there in the alley. Did I give an advantage to our team, try to tamper with the clue or mislead another team? Absolutely not.
I certainly was not trying to go against the spirit of the game, which is why I put the clue right back where I found it immediately after taking out our envelope.
I can see why other teams might think that I was trying to cheat. I'm happy to write an e-mail, message board post, or call anyone who needs further clarification."
I like to think that Team Spicy Mustard conducted itself with honor throughout the entire game, but a mistake like this should be recognized as such -- a mistake made in the heat of battle and exhaustion. It should not happen again.
I hope you accept our sincerest apologies.
Irwin
Co-Captain, Team Spicy Mustard
Just thought I'd mention that Team Red was extraordinarily classy every time we ran into them.
(Specifically at the poster on the West Side Highway.)
Seriously, don't ever change.
I wish someone would call me an ass fucker! I actually see that as a compliment! Who would not want to stick their "member" as GC put it. In a nice tight @ss!!!!!!!
Most of us have played this for years and ya know what?
-We do not cheat
-We do not tamper with Clues
-We like to talk smack
-We like to have fun
To the asshole with the yellow shirt who took the charles lane clue should be banned from playing.
The asshole with the blue shirt (I have your picture on my phone) who refused to give us your code word when ambushed I have a big fuck you and you should be banned from the game.
-Props to all the old school players out there
-Props to teams like bling, red, plaid (the winners) and celurlean for maintaining the integrity of the game.
As far as game control goes, you guys are great, you always put on a great game and I am actualy proud of the fact that we had so much street cred that the game had to be changed.
TEAM BLACK RULES NOW AND FOREVER
NOT MARIGOLD: GOLDENROD. I AM SORRY I GOT YOUR NAME WRONG GOLDENROD.
at least I didn't say "gardenia."
ANYWAY YOU ROCK.
MM9 (aka Death March Without Enough Cocktails) rocked! I spent my night garnering street cred, a new wrinkle I especially enjoyed: I cut my thumb open to provide a bloody band-aid; I sang; I offered to drop trou; I watched my teammate, Beau, eat a cockroach; I watched my teammate, Beau, drink a full bottle of Tabasco sauce; I took pictures of every single piece of weird garbage in a 10-square-block radius around Game Control and called it art. Suited my hyperactivity perfectly, and was a hell of a lot easier than solving clues.
So Mat, Kamalesh, Doron, and everyone else at Game Control-- especially Mat-- thanks for giving me $10 every time I ran up with a picture of chicken bones and called it "gluttony." Sorry we left the 60 pound bag of asphalt lying there.
Also, sorry for the bitchy text messages. Your constant answer of "Invalid Message" has really made me feel closer to you all.
A HUGE thank you to Teams Marigold and Buttercup, with whom we collaborated here and there, esp when scouring Morton St. from end to end, only to be told that the posters were gone, had been replaced by an impossible-to-find sticker, and we should maybe think about coming to the finish line.
Sorry to the girl from Team Spicy Mustard wearing the sleeveless polo shirt dress and the mustard-colored crew socks. Something about your determination made me need to mock you every time you spotted us, rolled up your poster, and skittered away. I'm mean like that. But seriously, I wasn't gonna steal your answers.
Another thanks to the anonymous team who took pity on me towards the end-- once Team Clear had dwindled from 12 members to 4-- and helped us out with the Riverview Hotel clue, as well as a tip of the hat to the nice boy who told me to look harder on Morton St. (see above: sticker.) Finally, a big kiss to whoever left the lock open at PS 33.
um... oh! If you are the blond kid who was wearing a red polo and riding a bike who to ambushed me and my teammate at about 7am Sunday morning: we laughed at you when you rode away.
ANYWAY THANKS AGAIN GAME CONTROL FOR EVERYTHING NEXT YEAR I AM MOONING YOU FOR FREE
TEAM CLEAR 4-EVA
As a team who didn't quite finish in the highest bracket, I would still like to thank Game Control for spinning us like a top - no one does it better.
I would also, in the spirit of the message boards, like to call everyone punks and losers, and to ask you all, in no uncertain terms, to "taste what Team Clear is cooking!" Got that, you punks?!
OK. Moving on, I'd sincerely like to thank Teams Goldenrod and Buttercup for working with us as our numbers dwindled and our minds emptied all over the baking pavements of both 10th Avenue and West Street, and to the other teams who helped us along the way. Not that we needed it, losers!
(Did I do that right?)
We didn't need to follow your team, we got that address text message fair and square after solving the lock puzzle. If you were the team who picked up that bag of clues in Charles Lane and walked away - then you have a lot to answer for.
I am happy there was only minimal clue tampering this year. that's the only thing that makes the game not fun for anyone.
First of all congrats to Team Plaid! - and sorry we solved the porn film clue too quickly to have any use for trading answers. We appreciated your courtesy and general mellowness. Also, much mention has been made about the pennies clue, but I think the main bummer was how long it took to get past the angel clue at the beginning... And finally just to get into the fray, Team Black followed us to Charles Lane so we think they're aggressive because they're just dim and should therefore be pitied rather than scolded. Tee hee love Pixie
Ditto Kamalesh! Everyone on game control plays a vital roll in creatin-n-makin the game, but Mat's IS truly our fearless leader! His brain should be in the Smithsonian at this point!
I'm the stress freak on game control - always buggin' that we won't be ready in time - the thought of disappointing 250-300 people always present! But ALL the work, time, money & NO sleep is all worth it when i see/read how happy it makes u nerdy freakin' bastards!
That said, NO ONE calls game control ass fuckers!!! Cyco-steve i'm from east flatbush bklyn & i'd like to see u say that to our faces - i'll knock u into the middle of next week buddy! GC loves reading the message board while making the game & we LOVE the shit team black stirs up - when directed towards us after our herculean effort, not soo funny... u show up w/ that attitude next year towards GC & you'll spend the night begging your teammates to help pull my black chuck taylor out of your large intestine - 'nuff!
To the rest of you - muchos, muchos gracias for playing & for all the wonderful thank yous - it really means alot!
bomer :-)
Kamalesh,
You're Welcome.
xoxo,
Snow White
He could've been lying to us, we don't know. It was the first time that someone refused our ambush so we didn't know what our course of action should have been and didn't get a picture.
We actually got a variety of answers during our crime spree: "We just got hit, we have 15 minutes", "But we don't have any cred anyway", "I'm not going to give our password because I'm a punk and a cheater and my pants are on fire", "You can't just walk up and ask me what team I'm on. I don't have to tell you. You didn't properly ambush me."
Oh well, the night's over and it was all a hell of a lot of fun. Another round of thanks to everyone at GC for an incredible night/morning/mid-day/afternoon/wtf is this game every going to end. And also a big thanks to all of the other teams. With only a few exceptions everyone played a great game and kept it fun for everyone else. And I'm sure that those exceptions were just due to people exhaustion and frustration and not malice.
Thank you, Game Control!
In the immortal words of Madonna, “only the one that hurts you, can make you feel better.”
As for the clue tampering, it was a guy in a yellow "Jeff Davis" t-shirt, and it was the bag on Charles Lane. who else saw him?
Similarly, I have trouble imagining that somebody on our team would have refused to give up our codeword.
TeamBlack, you sure it wasn't just another team claiming to be Marmalade to avoid getting their own team in trouble? Or did you recognize the person as someone from Marmalade? It's kind of hard to believe that someone would give up their team name but refuse to give up the codeword, despite knowing that it might get reported.
And not for nothing, but getting called a "punk" by Team Black may just be a badge of honor.
Kamalesh, thanks for your hard work on GC - that said we miss you playing too! You are welcome to join team Black next year - and you can spend the evening staking out Mat's apartment. ;)
xoxo
BTW, which clue are we talking about exactly? Did this person actually remove the poster?
As co-captain of Team Spicy Mustard, I'm checking into allegations that a member of my team tampered with clues. We regret if this was one of our number, but we still haven't gotten full confirmation yet. Just know that we took pains to inform everyone on our (rather large) team of the rules and we would never, ever sanction any violation of the rules. We love Midnight Madness too much to do that.
Man, that was brutal.
Funny how nobody thought to bring sunblock.
Big thanks to gamecontrol for another amazing MM.
I loved that some of the clues required solving a combination of other clues, but I also think that it might have helped contribute to a lot of the teams working on the same clue at the same time. (see: the clusterfuck at PS 33)
You take the good, you take the bad, I guess...
This has been mentioned before, but I think it really needs to be said again. Midnight Madness would not exist without Mat Laibowitz. He really is the primary creative force behind it and the reason it has kept going for so many years. So thanks Mat. And for the love of god, get a new hobby.
I also have to say thanks to the rest of Game Control interns: Doron, Tamara, Nicole and Josh. Oh and Dan. I thought the game went really smoothly and all of you were really impressive.
On a lesser note, much love to team Black for their pugnacious tenacity. I pretty much don't play the game anymore because of them, but they are always a joy to behold.
Also, thanks to woman who offered to show me her breasts for fake money. Made my night. Anyone who was willing to get naked, get it up or simulate sex for the game is also pretty alright by me.
K
Marmalade is hardcore? How hardcore is it to get ambushed at the In God We Trust clue site and say "Dude, it's been a long night" and refuse to give up the team password? Punks.
For the record, for all those bitching about the cred system: Team Plaid was never ambushed by either black or ochre (in fact, we were never technically ambushed at all - the one team that hit us never actually texted it in). So in the end the shifting rules actually made no difference in who won the game.
Thanks, GC, for an excellent evening/morning/afternoon(penny-problem aside).
Thanks GC... for another excellent hunt. I thought that there were a couple of great innovations this year: The street cred exchange for hints beats the timer system of last year. I think the ambush system can be considered separately, and seemed like it added more confusion/frustration than benefit. Also, the street cred system can probably be formalized a bit more so that it's more difficult to game it with kinko's cash or repeat submissions of the same item. I thought the puzzles were great, although as Snow White mentions, the penny puzzle gave us a really hard time - in a not-so-fun way. I'll also say that I wish the event hadn't gone on for quite so long. Last year's finishes, between 8am and 11am, seemed about right. First teams finishing after 2pm was more than I'd expected... and like some other folks, I had a flight out that started to loom on the horizon. Overall, I had a great time and will definitely be back next year.
Some street cred highlights:
Getting arrested for "suspicion of prostitution" outside Hammerstein Ballroom.
The look on GC's face when I offered to flash them for cred.
Jonah, Team Red's resident trapeze artist (for real!), hanging by his feet from the top top scaffolding near GC headquarters. I think we have a pic somewhere.
P.S. Game Control...I think you guys should get interns to do the grunt work next year.
P.P.S. Josh from GC is a saint.
I was a first time player and I just wanted to say I think that this game was amazing. Thank you game control for setting everything up. Thank you everyone in the truck for being such good sports all night long. Thank you for the scavenger hunt/street cred system, it was awesome! I really felt the ambush system was confusing (we were ambushed on the corner by the truck, seemed sort of bogus as we could have ambushed so many other teams there, but figured it was some sort of safe zone). Overall- Thank you. Thank you. Thank you! To all the teams, and game control and everyone what a wonderful night/morning.
Thanks to everyone for playing.
For the record, it was not said at start that you could buy the answers, it was said that you could buy the three hints but the complete answers would never be given.
We also decided not to give hints on the final puzzle when there were many teams in contention for victory.
Had we really stuck to the letter of the cred law, Team Olive would have probably won as they were the first to go on a rampage putting many teams so deep in the hole that they would have never been able to receive a hint. We talked to them and they graciously stopped, understanding that this would have made the game pretty awful for those teams.
Black went on a similar rampage 5 hours later.
While we did not hold the victims to their debt, we did give these two teams plenty of deserved lee-way with the hint system.
And, yes, we gave pity cred at 10am. The cred system had plenty of flaws and inconsistencies.
Thanks GC you did an awesome job!
I liked the idea of buying hints. I think the ambush system would have worked fine if the penalty was just fixed. The manner of getting street cred was a good idea except I think you should strike all the less interesting things that you can just buy. Those arent fun, just tedious.
I also liked a fixed GC were you go and get the hints. It is better to wait in line than get a busy signal for some reason.
The worst part of the night for me by far was Morton st. I feel like GC actually wanted to hurt us on that one. Looking for a tiny sticker somewhere on morton st seems totally unreasonable specially when you think you are looking for a clue packet. That one was a total game of chance and drudgery.
With that and the pennies I felt that we spent most of this game just rooting around looking for things instead of solving puzzles. Though I did think that when we evetually found them all the puzzles were well crafted.
Anyway great job, see you guys next year.
I have a question for everyone -- I'm just wondering if anyone else got stuck on the same dead end on the pennies clue that we did. Bear with me here --
Before we knew there were multiple sets of pennies, I thought of it this way. In order, the pennies were "looking" east, north, south, and west. But then I saw the part of the clue that said to start on the straight path. "A-ha! PATH train!" I thought. It starts going straight at 14th st, so if you follow the L east to the first intersection with another train, the N north to the first intersection, the F south to that next intersection, and then finally the L west to the next intersection, which happened to be 14th and 8th Ave. (The fact that the N curved northwest was even more perfect, because otherwise going right/up/down/left would just leave you where you started.)
At that intersection, there's a spa with big columns, looks concievably just like the "tails" side of the remaining penny. PLUS the spa is called "Nickel," PLUS PLUS the spa used to be a bank, and PLUS PLUS PLUS the subway station there is full of bronze statues of little people with moneybags for heads, carrying around more money. It all seemed so exactly perfect, right? My team ended up scouring the area there for HOURS until we gave up and used our hard earned cred for a clue. Drove me freaking CRAZY when I found out how completely and totally wrong I was, and how much time I'd wasted looking at all of those stupid moneyhead statues. It *still* seems like a damn good solution to the puzzle, if you ask me.
I think I saw some other teams poking around the neighborhood too -- how many of you guys ended up doing the same thing?
For the record.
Team Black DID try to buy the answers when we had enough cred to 'win the game' as we were told at the start.
Unfortunately the answers suddenly weren't for sale. We got the same info as the teams who could suddenly juggle for 10 cred just to build their banks back up.
It's a shame public nudity doesn't rank up there with pitty points at 10am the next day. Game Control was the Robin Hood's of the, well, 'hood.
Either way we all had a lot of fun. Rock on GC! see yall next year.
We could only buy the same clues you guys just eventually got anyways. We couldn't "buy" the final answers or locations really.
The war part was fun, but in the end it didn't get us any special advantage.
I do really like the scavenger hunt part as an addition to the game, it was fun to have our team come up with creative solutions. Hopefully that will continue in future years.
Black, you complain that you didn't win when you had all the smarts to get massive amounts of cred. Don't ask me, but sounds like you're all idiots. You probably could've BOUGHT all the answers to the whole damned game with all your street cred. Did you ever even call in for clues instead of complaining?
Sucks about team light blue, though. That's bullcrap.
As much as I am pissed at GC for modifying the rules They did an amazing job as usual. This had to be the best year so far. I have been playing for the last 5 years and this truly was the most fun even though other years we did better.
Thanks GC. and an extra thanks to Matt.
And fuck you "PussyAssfuck" no one cares about baseball or warcraft.
Sorry. You guys know i can't post anything without so sort of negative comment.
later
FROM - RVKDown Unda (da bridge)This year’s game absolutely rocked. Thanks GC for another supreme addition of midnight madness. The puzzles and format were great. My favorite was the cable bill (guess the porn title). "Ejacula"? "Some of all Queers"? Absolutely priceless! This was exactly the kind of comedic relief our team needed as we made our way through the "I can't go on" stage of the night. I liked the street cred idea. However, our team rolled stricly fuck-the-bank-i'm-going-out-tonght NYC style keeping cash in hand the whole time and focusing on the puzzles, save a couple of try-out ambushes at the beginning.
I think the game length added another dimension (or should I say dementia) to the night. Sure, I’ve been on 16 hour video game binges before. But what lacks from that mind-numbing gaming goodness is the genuine fight against fatigue -- the fear that all of the sudden you will find yourself in a comfortable contour, your eyes will slowly lower, your limbs will give and you will fall right off your bike on 10th Ave.
Congratulations to Team Plaid. I look forward the 10th anniversary addition!
I slept for 16 hours last night...and I'm still tired. Last year we had to run from zombies and this year I turned into one!
Team Black...where were you all night? I was looking for you and couldn't find you. (I think we were the only team you didn't ambush!) BTW...that's screwed up about Baby Blue. (weren't they the same team that accused US of cheating them last year?)
A couple of things for GC:
The Penny Puzzle was incredibly frustrating. I thought the worst was the "As the Crow Flies" puzzle from MM8, but this takes the cake. If any team got this puzzle without multiple hints, hats off to you.
I wish there had been a phone charging station somewhere...there's nothing worse than being hot, smelly and sweaty at 12pm, in the final stretch and not being able to communicate with team members because everyone's phone is dead.
But seriously...
Game Control puts this together every year for no monetary reward...just their own good will. Sure there are obtuse hints and maddening puzzles but what it all comes down to is that it's fucking awesome that GC puts this together every year. I owe all of you a drink. (Top shelf stuff too!)
Thanks so much to Game Control for all of their hard work! It was really fun this year with all the scavenger items, challenging puzzles, and war strategies! 18 hours of puzzle insanity!
I am very much looking forward to seeing everyone's pictures!
XOXO
Team Black
Game control, you were amazing as we argued, cajoled, and begged for assistance. I loved the fixed location for game control and being able to see and go to you -- better than the phone or sms system. The clues this year were marvelous (except the penny 20k) and the more "linear" form of puzzles threw our team strategy for a loop.
I thought the street cred and ambush rules were too complicated. And the more complicated they are - the more likely they are to be exploited (like tax law!). It's apparent that teams in the positive and way in the hole were frustrated. I know that rules that piss off everyone could be construed as successful. But I was on the side (in the hole) where Game Control's benevolence was helpful - and I would have preferred to just know the rules and play by them.
Would it be so bad to go back to something more simple? Since the hints were fixed, why not just give them at standard time periods and sms them to the team captain. Game control would be more free to deal with the police, fixing clues when the ASSHOLES from mustard/yellow/whomever you are that stole the FUCKING CLUE (our team SAW you), and watching us scramble around near the clues. If you want to see more of us and interact with us during the games - then make puzzles that force us to do that!
Despite my compliants, I had a great time. Thanks, thanks, thanks!
Goldenrod wasn't stupid enough to wear color-coordinated shirts. The Power Rangers you speak of are Spicy Mustard, though it's quite possible it was just some other jackass in a yellow shirt.
Brutal game - I had to finally leave around 3PM to drive someone to the airport. I thought for sure a 4:30 flight would give plenty of time, but to hear that the 1st place team only finished around 2pm is crazy..
Anyway to echo the sentiment of the guy who defended GC's right to change the rules - it was going to be wiped at the game start. Plus, the money was easy enough to photocopy at Kinko's - so ambush me all you want, bitch. Plus - I heard you had something like $40,000 - why didn't you buy all the clues for all the puzzles and um.. win?
Bottom line is the street cred thing was fun to do but not a good way to run the hint distribution. Obvious example of that is that team black clearly mastered the street cred but still couldn't win the game. Or come in second, third, or fourth. But - there's always next year.
FROM - srpukHey, all you GC dudes: it was a great night (though I use the word "night" loosely). Some fun puzzles again, though some of the result were pretty impressively hidden :) Not sure about the "pennies" puzzle but I think the other ones probably made up for it. You GC folks are an ingenious load of buggers if nothing else; that cube was pretty funky.
Oh, and other teams, you guys were cool; I'm pretty sure all the encounters I had through the madness were jovial, even when people were tired by the end.
See you all next year,
srp [plaid]
Cool concept, GC. Team Black got the street cred and finished 5th. As always, we played with honor, sportsmanship and fun. And as always, it seems, we didn't finish first. That is the way of things.
To hell with all the pussies too scared to ambush. Except Team Plaid. They ambushed me. Right on, Team Plaid.
Oh - and that motherfucker in the yellow "Jeff Davis" t-shirt who ran off with the clue on Charles Lane? Fuck you, buddy! Don't stand there at the end of a 17-hour game and act like you don't know what "tampering" means. Do I have to post Webster's definition? It means don't FUCK with the clues. And that includes:
- picking up the clue when other teams are looking for it.
- taking the clue around the corner when other teams are watching you
- hiding with the clue for who knows how long.
Oh, and then you have the nerve to whine "well, I put it back 2 minutes later." How sad you are. Is this how your whole team behaved throughout the night? Nice way to implicate all your friends.
If there is a consequence to breaking the only rule for Midnight Madness, then I hope your Team (yellow? goldenrod? mustard?) is disqualified. And I don't even know what place you finished in, so this is not a sore loser post. It's a "follow the rules" post.
Cool concept, GC. Team Black got the street cred and finished 5th. As always, we played with honor, sportsmanship and fun. And as always, it seems, we didn't finish first. That is the way of things.
To hell with all the pussies too scared to ambush. Except Team Plaid. They ambushed me. Right on, Team Plaid.
Oh - and that motherfucker in the yellow "Jeff Davis" t-shirt who ran off with the clue on Charles Lane? Fuck you, buddy! Don't stand there at the end of a 17-hour game and act like you don't know what "tampering" means. Do I have to post Webster's definition? It means don't FUCK with the clues. And that includes:
- picking up the clue when other teams are looking for it.
- taking the clue around the corner when other teams are watching you
- hiding with the clue for who knows how long.
Oh, and then you have the nerve to whine "well, I put it back 2 minutes later." How sad you are. Is this how your whole team behaved throughout the night? Nice way to implicate all your friends.
If there is a consequence to breaking the only rule for Midnight Madness, then I hope your Team (yellow? goldenrod? mustard?) is disqualified. And I don't even know what place you finished in, so this is not a sore loser post. It's a "follow the rules" post.
For those of you who were not captains, GC almost cancelled the ambush policy before the start of the game, and made it repeatedly clear that it was a trial and might be stopped depending on how well it played out (Mat made this point three times). It's possible that this was not communicated out broadly, which is why most of Black feels so cheated. Smarter play when realizing the trial basis--and that other teams were sitting ducks--would have been to take it at a slower burn, using it to get clues much faster than other teams but not making it appear unplayable.
They also said that not giving up your team password was cheating and would result in disqualification, and it is disappointing that any team would ignore the rules in a game with so few.
GC – Seriously great puzzles this year, and we really liked the structure with multiple clues that needed to be integrated – felt like more of a full team event this time!
Here are some pictures and videos from MM9:
http://www.thatsplenty.com/2006/08/midnight_madness_1.html
They are a joke!!! First place huh? I agree, hang it up as you will never win.
The 100 points in the DMZ zone were nothing! Rumor had it that team Black went on a rampage accumulating over 5,000 points.
Team Black probably should have been able to buy the clues to win, and all other teams should not have been allowed any real clues as they were bankrupt. According to the rules, team black should have won by 3am. I can't say I blame team Black as the "Street Cred" had no cred what so ever, and you would think that GC with all of their smarts, would have thought this through.
Regardless, team Black are a bunch of @$$ holes! And @R!N will never ever come in first, because you just do not have the smarts! Plus he has idiots like Cyco Steve on his team!!!!! @R!N, I think it is time for you and team black to hang it up! YOU WILL NEVER WIN THIS GAME!!!!!
Goddamn, team black. That's a hell of a lot of complaining for a full weekend of city scavenger hunt and puzzling. Especially considering that it didn't cost you a dime to participate.
With a game like baseball or basketball, the rules don't get changed midway through the game to accomodate losers - because the games have been played for so long. Everyone agrees that the rules are fair based on the collective long-term experience of playing. But when baseball, basketball, or just about any game was first invented, the rules changed overtime for the sake of balance and fun for all players. An excellent example of this process is the way rules change in games like World of Warcraft with updates to ensure players, outside of their own personal skill, are on level ground.
The rules this year were fresh and new - the cred and ambush rules were untested. I'm unaware of GCs thought process, but it was deemed for one reason or another that the rules should be changed.
Further, why are you complaining? If you wound up with the most street cred and points, then the change of rules was merely an obstacle for you, and clearly didn't limit your dominance.
After providing such elaborate, intense entertainment for free, I hardly think a rule change that qualifies them as "a bunch of pussys(!!!!)", "assfuckers", or "pussy mother fuckers."
Or, to speak on your terms, choke on my rigid cock and shit my cum for a week you ungrateful whiny fucktards.
Though, to be fair, it's pretty fucked up that team blue refused to give you their password. That's just straight cheating.
I know we came in 5th.....
and our team captain rocked as always.
We would gladly return the 100pts we got from our very first ambush in the demilitarized zone. We truly didnt know about that. If you looked at all of our other ambushes (almost every other team) they were far away from the zone.... So we were playing fair the entire time We just had a foul that first one. I admit and apologize.
What team came in 5th?
TEAM BLACK!!!
They did tell us about the demilitarized zone at the start. Not our fault your captain didn't pay attention.
What team had the most street cred?
TEAM BLACK!!!
What team had the most points?
TEAM BLACK!!!!
What team put all of the other teams at a negative score?
TEAM BLACK!!!!
I want to know why the game was changed very early on to accomodate all of the other teams. Game control is a bunch of pussys!!!! You make rules and every year you guys manipulate the rules to keep the game going. Why don't you guys own up to your mistakes and let the game finish out the way you guys originally set it up?
How come halfway into the game we are told about a "demilitarized zone" where we can't ambush teams. (we only ambushed one team on the corner of 20th and 10th......most of our ambushes were up at 38th street ) Why didnt you tell us about that at the start?
Our team spent at least 45 minutes planning our ambush strategy. And for what? to be told it doesn't count.
If I am mistaken about Game Controls fuck ups.... I will be the first to apologize on here...... But I doubt that's gonna happen. And there were a few guys on game control who sympathized with our problem and I apologize to them for having to lump you in with the rest of the Game control assfuckers...... But you picked your team......
I am definitely bitching here about the rules not because I care that we only came in 5th(???) But because we followed your "rules" and got FUCKED HARD in the end for doing so. Seems like that happens alot.
AND A BIG FUCK YOU SUCK MY BLACK COCK DILDO
to team baby blue who wouldn't give us their team name or password when we ambushed them!!! Bunch of pussy fuckwads....If you wanna play..... you gotta pay!!!! To al the other teams out there, when we ambushed them they refused to give us their name and password and one of them was actually crying as they literally ran away...... I felt like a bully for about 5sec. then realized I WAS A WARRIOR.....
CAN YOU DIG IT??!?!?!
When we showed pictures of team baby blue to game control and complained to them that a team wasn't cooperating with our ambush they laughed and said something like : "at this point it doesn't matter because you have destroyed all teams....... Most are in negative points....."
If that isn't a victory than I don't know what is.... and if I am bitching too early on i apologize.... But I'm venting.
I think you should have picked a different movie to base this years game on. something a little more G rated. If this was the warriors movie TEAM BLACK would have been sitting on Coney Island with Swan, Ajax, Cleon, and the rest sipping tasty drinks washing all the other teams blood off our bats........ BUT NO... Game Control had to modify the rules to accomodate the other pussy teams. That's like watching the Warriors on TBS with commercials and no curses Gosh Darn it!!!!
We got Japped just like Cleon!!!!
And team yellow.... as in yellow bastard pussy boys...... Suck my taint
One of you guys moved a clue.......
Well I think that about sums up my rant.... I am sure I have given all of you Pussy mother fuckers enough material to bad mouth me and team black..... The only team who decided to use the ambush rule and then got fucked for doing it............
Game control fucked up big time when it came to the rules BUT also did a great job with the clues and street cred items. The clues were hard and challenging and the street cred items were hillarious. Team Black's camera got lost with pictures of me and a big 12" long, 5" wide BLACK DILDO in my mouth. So in about two weeks I will be all over the internet on some porn site.
Lucky me.
Should have kept my mouth shut!!
I speak for myself only not team black.
I had to leave early (if 2:45pm is early???) but I want to thank my team mates who stuck it out to the finish......
To all my AWESOME AWESOME Marmalade teammates -- You're fucking HARD CORE is what you are! Let's do it again next year -- except let's all bring bikes and walkie talkies and much better shoes and more water.
Had a great time, didn't make it past the 10am mark. Will bring a bicycle and better shoes next year. Had an amazing time puzzling. Thanks to game control for kicking our asses!
So. Fucking. Brutal.
I've posted some of our pictures at:
http://umich.edu/~mcneal/20060805
Thanks GC for hosting another mind blowing midnight madness. Unfortunately for me, it went much longer than the 12 hours I planned for and I had to leave to catch my flight before it was all over. It sucks not seeing all of the clues or the finish line. Any chance they'll be posted online?;
Fuck Rap
[If everyone's gonna start rappin'..]
"Blah, blah": Black keeps soundin' like a fool --
No, sir, no sir, you got no pull
On the streets, where everything's dark at midnight,
But it ain't about appearences, so get your shit right:
Black Bastard, sounds like someone's gettin' Ol'
Better trade your sunglasses for bifocals,
And don't forget to pack up your cialis
If you wanna roll with g-rod (which sounds like phallus?)
Fo' sirriux, yo.
We can rhyme with colors, too, 'cause we went to kindergarten;
We can also solve mad puzzles, 'cause we quick and slick and smart and
We know it takes confidence to win before startin' --
But it also takes skill, and I don't mean brain fartin'.
Yeah, that rhyme was forced.. and what?
So at midnight the streets may start to look Black,
Cause your vision will be going when we're standin' on your back
With a Goldenrod flag (not that white surrender crap)
So have a good game, folks, and be sure to take a nap!
Peace out, and see you at the finish line, TB...
...if we have the patience to wait. Can't stop the madness... it's ON!
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