BANG 35 was a Bay Area Night Game.
Thanks to everyone that came out and played! The final standings can be seen here: results for June 25 and results for July 9. (Note that because of mostly-minor changes made between the two runs, scores between dates aren't strictly comparable. One major difference was that puzzle 7 had its points changed from 65 to 35, resulting in the maximum earnable points for that puzzle changing from 130 to 70.)
A huge thanks to all of the people who donated their time and brains to help out and make the game better:
Playtesters | Deborah Boskin |
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Herman Chau | |
Lu Chen | |
Allen Cohn | |
Mike Develin | |
Dan Getelman | |
Jeremy Hoffman | |
Eric Mayefsky | |
Ryan Menezes | |
Kekoa Proudfoot | |
Erik Stuart | |
Cynthia Wong | |
Moor Xu | |
Volunteer staffers | Cathy Anderson |
Craig Anderson | |
Quince Anderson | |
Kiki Bragg | |
Rich Bragg | |
Allen Cohn | |
Michael Constant | |
Casey Holman | |
Linda Holman | |
Larry Hosken | |
Ying Huang | |
Karen Kaufman | |
Deanna Rubin | |
Erik Stuart |
The hexominoes were provided by Kadon Enterprises, http://gamepuzzles.com, who has been making hexominoes since 1984. Because of the volume, they did a generously special run and sold it to us at near cost, so we do not have any spare sets and are unable to pass on any savings on additional sets. If you would like a nice set of hexominoes for yourself, consider getting their Sextillions product. It comes with a tray, game grid, and accompanying book with games and puzzles. (Note that it's based on a 1/2" size square, which is smaller than the 3/4" square hexominoes we used in the game.)
Puzzles and solutions
1. The Creepy Orphanage
2. The Administrator's Office
3. The Corrupt Casino
4. The Downtown Meeting
- puzzle (1 letter-size sheet)
- San Mateo map (1 letter-size sheet; received at start of hunt)
- solution
- The hexomino balloons at the destination location were made by gluing together a commercial product, Anagram's "UltraShape" cubical balloon.
5. The Underground Lab
6. The Third Degree
7. The Radio Towers
- puzzle (1 letter-size sheet)
- labeled puzzle (with location labels from installations) (1 letter-size sheet)
- installation data
- solution