[wijwij]

Greetings fellow riddlers. Here is a puzzle contest for you, with prizes.

I have written a sequence of puzzles with a poker theme and am going to use it as a contest. Originally, the puzzle sequence was written as a follow-up to PeteRod's riddle that he posed to try to find a winner for his MacFly table. He has since found a buyer for that table.

Rather than let the puzzles go unsolved, I made them available as a contest starting this SATURDAY MAY 27 at 1 PM Eastern Standard Time.

The winners and their finishing times were: famousramos (4 h 59m), JM (6 h 06m), Wedge Rock (6 h 06m), and Johnny5 (6 h 31m). Congratulations!

Here is the puzzle sequence:

http://world.std.com/~wij/chiptalk/c...-challenge.pdf

Here is the complete set of solutions:

http://world.std.com/~wij/chiptalk/c...-solutions.pdf

The puzzles can be solved individually in any order, and each puzzle contributes some material needed for a final puzzle.

You can discuss the contest in this thread in GENERAL terms, but I ask that you not reveal the exact solutions of the mini-puzzles, since each one contributes to the final puzzle. If you want to collaborate via e-mail or PM, that would be the way to share hints or answers. I ask that you do this so that people can read this thread without worrying about spoilers.

The first four people to complete the task posed in the final puzzle will win prizes.

Grand Prize: 3 set-ups (6 decks) of plastic cards of your choice
Grand Prize winner: famousramos

3 Runners-Up: 1 set-up (2 decks) of plastic cards of your choice
Runners-up: JM, Wedge Rock, Johnny5

The prizes are being donated by Trident Cards. You can see their selection of top-notch plastic cards by visiting their web site here:

http://www.tridentcards.com/100%25+Plastic/

Note that Trident offers some cards that are very difficult to find and that your poker buddies may never have seen before, not only Copag and USPC, but also Dal Negro, Modiano, Piatnik, NTP, Fournier, Cartamundi, and others.

I will ask winners to e-mail me their prize choices and shipping addresses and I will communicate that to Trident Cards. I will also provide a set of solutions for those who want them.

Will Johnston
wijwij

[erikk]

Very sweet.

[Lime]

Awesome! Thanks.

[SingleMaltFan]

looking forward

1malt

[JM]

Fantastic, thanks to both you AND Trident for the generous donation!

[RadixLecti]

Cool, thanks!

The Cartamundis are really nice. I have a setup of these, and I'm really happy with them.

[Wedge Rock]

Is this the place to ask questions?

I have the five letters for the Vanishing Act crossword puzzle, but in what order are they listed for the answer below?

[JM]

ok, done with the cypher and the ring game, halfway thru the riddle me this.

[wijwij]

The answers are words or phrases. If you think more than one arrangement works, then you will have to see which fits with the final puzzle. That's as much of a hint as I can give you for that puzzle.

Saying which puzzles you have solved, which ones are easy or hard, and which you are working on, is fine in this thread.

Will

[JM]

Done with Riddle me this