First Annual Sunnyvale Puzzlehunt

Yikes! It's been forever since a post. A miserable 2 in January. Well, it hasn't been for lack of excitement, fortunately. We had a nice holiday trip to both Denver and NC (maybe we'll post on that someday...). It was great to see not only our families, but we had a good visit with Erin and some of Kate's local friends in Denver, and a great reunion of my youth-group friends and leaders at Charity's house in Durham. Good times.

Some of you (Greenmen and immediate family) served as the guinea-pigs for some of our puzzles we were working on over the holidays - thanks for your help. Well, with the help of your comments and suggestions, along with a few new puzzles, we hosted the First Annual Sunnyvale Puzzlehunt last month for about 17 friends (4 teams). Each puzzle led you to another location around our town here, and we ended back at our house for a festive recap and party. It was a lot of fun and we look forward to doing it again sometime, after we let our brains recharge from spending the many weeks beforehand creating and fine-tuning the puzzles!

Here are the four teams that we tricked into particip enthusiastically participated. Happily, all teams finished all 6 puzzles! Thanks again to all our friends and family who helped.

Group 1 (the winners!): Mikey, Pat, Adam L, Rachel doing Puzzle #1

Group 2: Erin, Bailey, Mike, Ashley, Adam R with "Art Through the Ages"

Group 3: Cara, Dustin, Marc, Alex, also with the "Art" puzzle

Group 4: Chris, Ann, James doing the Candy Bowl (not shown: Jessie the Golden Retriever)

Post-hunt festivities, including a raucous game of liars dice

If you're interested in trying out some of the puzzles for yourself, they are not all really possible to recreate electronically, but I'll try to post the ones that work up here shortly. Stay tuned.

Puzzle #1: A Picture is Worth... (12 MB)