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zotmeister ([personal profile] zotmeister) wrote2010-01-11 02:22 am

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You'd think that, when testsolving for a competition where most puzzles don't have given rules, people would read the rules for those puzzles that do have them very carefully. I know I thought that. I was apparently very wrong. [facepalm] - ZM

UPDATE: More importantly, you'd think that the testsolvers would be given the complete instructions to begin with. [headdesk] But even more importantly than that, you'd think that the constructor would provide an error-free puzzle so that the previous two would even make a difference! [bodyfloor]

Re: Loved this puzzle

[identity profile] aerionblue.livejournal.com 2010-01-24 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
Heh, actually a lot of us were CS people, too, but at Mystery Hunt it seems like people are always in a hurry. I try not to, but sometimes I find myself jumping in and hoping that it will take less time to guess the rules than to read them. (Reading is hard! >_>)

That ... usually doesn't work out.