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May 18, 2003
Penguins Cannot Fly
After 30 hours of sitting in a conference room teasing my brain and eating pizza, I'm finally back home and ready for bed. The Puzzle Hunt was great fun, and as a team we did quite well. Out of the forty teams that participated, our team (inexplicably named "Penguins Cannot Fly") came in seventh. Of the six teams ahead of us, four of them solved the two "meta-puzzles" (puzzles made from the solutions to all the other puzzles).
Somehow I became the team expert on solving cryptic crosswords, despite the fact that before yesterday I had never solved a single cryptic problem in my life. I think now I'm hooked on them.
Brain tired. Work tomorrow. Need sleep.