World of Arcana

Today was a lot of fun. I participated in PuzzleCrunch 2008, an online puzzling competition, with some friends from Unfiction. We didn’t win any prizes, but the puzzle solving was fun. Like it always is on Unfiction.

Also, I’ve been trying to figure out what I was going to play at the final Good Karma Cafe on Thursday. For a while I was thinking of getting some people together to do a full radio-version of Still Alive. Failing that, it was back to the drawing board today. But I decided to give another shot to an idea that I had in October (!). It actually turned out pretty good, and I’m pretty sure it’s what I’ll do Thursday. Hopefully, a video will follow.

Today when I was supposed to be taking notes on Chemical Kinetics, which I kind of did, I developed an interesting puzzle. Let’s see if anybody can formulate the answer. I am confident that the solution can be deduced using simple logic.

4 of the 8 numbers in this paragraph are incorrect. Every incorrect number is 1 away from its correct version. The first incorrect number is written as being no greater than 5 and no less than 10. Several of the corrected numbers contain two syllables. Added together, the correct versions of the incorrect numbers sum 23. The smallest number that can be formed by multiplying two correct versions of incorrect numbers together is 3.

Also, I’d like to wish good luck to all my friends with auditions today. I have great confidence in all of you.