#team round

There are activities at night. Last night had a pop/rock music quiz but I got eliminated in a round of 27 (I was lost with most of the Euro music).

There’s a gala dinner to end things and karaoke afterwards.

This was a trick or treat round with masks and 9 puzzles that had tricks which altered them into new puzzles. We likely solved 17 of the 18 of them and needed about 5 more minutes to solve the last one.

Time for lunch!

We were divided into 2 pairs and given instruction-less puzzles. I got a Latin square to solve and my partner I completed fairly quickly giving us a lot of time on the final puzzle which was a combination of each of our individual rules. We solved it with plenty of time remaining (12 minutes)

This round was a disaster! No one finished on time which paused the clock. I didn’t get one of my assigned individual sudokus as the instructions weren’t very good. It seems like a lot of others failed to solve it though. We managed the team samurai using the logic from the earlier sudokus. It was a frustrating end to the team part of the competition.

This was a sticker sudoku set and our team passed around 6 sudokus and had 90 seconds to solve our portion with stickers. We solved 5 of them but not a difficult irregular sudoku that required everyone to do their part. We are probably out of the running for a podium finish.

And as an aside, we got interviewed by a journalist afterwards, although I’m not sure who she’s associated with.