A BANG 23 debriefing with special guests Doctor Sudoku and Professor Tangram! WARNING: This podcast may contain minor spoilers for some puzzles from BANG 23.
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00:00 – Disclaimer: puzzle spoilers ahoy!
01:30 – “evil”
02:18 – welcoming Dr. Sudoku and Prof. Tangram
03:25 – BANG numbering shenanigans
05:13 – puzzle hunt amnesia is a real thing
06:19 – secret identities revealed
07:28 – backstories and inspirations
12:38 – work is fun!
15:10 – puzzles puzzles puzzles
19:36 – 56 teams played on 2 days
20:21 – tangram quality control
23:19 – can an evil puzzle be “too evil”? um, yeah
26:39 – scoring, points, hints, …
28:33 – lessons learned from BANG 23 (both of them)
35:37 – our Twitter contest was a bust 🙁
36:30 – upcoming events: Berkeley Mystery Hunt, “Odd Man Out” treasure hunt, Puzzled Pint: Octoberfest, Ghost Patrol BANG
39:12 – Curtis wants postcards
40:45 – The End
Music: instrumentals from “Code Monkey,” “Skullcrusher Mountain,” and “I Feel Fantastic” by Jonathan Coulton
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> can an evil puzzle be "too evil"?
They didn't talk about the flip side "Only Game Control thinks that's evil." Maybe that's just as well.