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==Status== | ==Status== | ||
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==Location== | ==Location== | ||
− | ''' | + | '''Name And Address''': Long Now Foundation (posing as a time-oriented research laboratory), Fort Mason Center, Building A, San Francisco, CA |
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'''Parking''': Some free spots just outside of parking attendant's booth, pay parking inside lot | '''Parking''': Some free spots just outside of parking attendant's booth, pay parking inside lot | ||
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'''Food''':Safeway and a few restaurants a few blocks away | '''Food''':Safeway and a few restaurants a few blocks away | ||
− | ''' | + | '''GC PoC''': Allen, (415) 475-8463, lab@trenchwood.com |
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+ | '''Site PoC''': Danielle Engleman of LNF | ||
==Type== | ==Type== | ||
Mandatory Puzzle | Mandatory Puzzle | ||
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==How To Give To Teams== | ==How To Give To Teams== | ||
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Lab assistant says this over phone. Note that we really want to make sure teams understand that the Doctor is going through different periods of time and space: | Lab assistant says this over phone. Note that we really want to make sure teams understand that the Doctor is going through different periods of time and space: | ||
− | + | <poem style="border: 1px dashed #2f6fab; background-color: #f9f9f9; padding: 1em;"> | |
− | + | Are you on speakerphone? | |
− | We've determined that one | + | </poem> |
− | Thanks to you we're almost able to rescue the Doctor. We do that by having the time machine project a return time portal archway to his current spatial-temporal coordinates. | + | [wait until they are] |
− | + | <poem style="border: 1px dashed #2f6fab; background-color: #f9f9f9; padding: 1em;"> | |
− | + | We've determined that one problems caused by the failure of co-keypad #34 is that it is causing Doctor When to bounce around through time and space, appearing and reappearing at different points in the past, present, and future. Who knows what dangers he's facing! | |
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− | So please go to the Long Now Foundation in Ft. Mason where their crack temporal mechanics will give you access to the View-O-Scope log. Once you've calculated his next destination just ''call'' the Institute. | + | Thanks to you we're almost able to rescue the Doctor from this plight. We do that by having the time machine project a return time portal archway to his current spatial-temporal coordinates. |
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+ | But we need to do one last thing before the machine is fully repaired and can project a return portal: we need to ''recalibrate it. | ||
+ | If you can calculate the next time he'll materialize in, we can use that information to recalibrate the machine. | ||
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+ | The machine's Temporal View-O-Scope has recorded the different times and places he's visited so far. So please go to the Long Now Foundation in Ft. Mason where their crack temporal mechanics will give you access to the View-O-Scope log. Once you've calculated his next destination just ''call'' the Institute. | ||
+ | </poem> | ||
SUPPLEMENTAL EMAIL | SUPPLEMENTAL EMAIL | ||
− | < | + | <poem style="border: 1px dashed #2f6fab; background-color: #f9f9f9; padding: 1em;"> |
Research Project Title: Calibration | Research Project Title: Calibration | ||
− | Objective: Help Institute to recalibrate the time machine by calculating the next time Doctor When will bounce to; do this by looking for patterns in the times the Doctor has bounced to so far; the log of his travels can be accessed using Long Now's Computer Remote Access Program for the time machine's View-O-Scope | + | Objective: Help Institute to recalibrate the time machine by calculating the next time Doctor When will bounce to; do this by looking for patterns in the times the Doctor has bounced to so far; the log of his travels can be accessed using Long Now's Computer Remote Access Program for the time machine's View-O-Scope; enter access code 991858 into the program |
Location: Long Now Foundation, Fort Mason Center, Building A, San Francisco | Location: Long Now Foundation, Fort Mason Center, Building A, San Francisco | ||
Upon Completion: Call the Institute and speak with any lab assistant | Upon Completion: Call the Institute and speak with any lab assistant | ||
Parking: Some free spots just outside of parking attendant's booth, pay parking inside lot | Parking: Some free spots just outside of parking attendant's booth, pay parking inside lot | ||
+ | Need To Park: Yes | ||
+ | Personnel Required: All | ||
Bathrooms At Location: Yes | Bathrooms At Location: Yes | ||
− | + | Snacks At Location: Safeway and a few restaurants a few blocks away | |
− | </ | + | NOTE: Be sure to bring your Computer Remote Access Program disk with you. |
+ | </poem> | ||
==Plot Setup== | ==Plot Setup== | ||
− | + | * Iconoclast scientist Doctor When has attempted to demonstrate his time machine before an audience of VIPs. | |
+ | * But it malfunctioned due to a faulty key component. The players have helped fix that. | ||
+ | * The malfunction is causing the Doctor to bounce around randomly in time from era to era, facing untold dangers! | ||
+ | * Repairs also required access to the Doctor's supercomputer, but the team successfully hacked the password. | ||
+ | * Along the way they learned someone named "Buffy" was important to him back in high school. | ||
==Props== | ==Props== | ||
− | * | + | * 32 or 34 copies of Trenchwood Industries CDs, which contain the Calibration puzzle (2 per team, with 0 spares) |
− | + | * 16 copies of optional TBD puzzle (1 per team, with 0 spares) | |
− | * 16 copies of | + | * 1 Lab coat (should already have from previous location) |
− | * | + | * 1 Long Now name badge and lanyard (should already have lanyard from previous location; look inside the lanyard for this badge insert) |
− | + | * 120 (7 per team) copies of blank co-keypad sheets (for use in [[1.03.05 Co-Keypad Optional Driving Puzzles]]) | |
− | * Long Now name badge and lanyard (should already have lanyard from previous location) -- | ||
==Plot Point to Convey== | ==Plot Point to Convey== | ||
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==Open Time Period== | ==Open Time Period== | ||
− | Saturday, 1 | + | Saturday, 2 PM till all teams (16 in Game 1, 17 in Game 2) have picked up Calibration (estimated 4 PM) |
==Staff Instructions== | ==Staff Instructions== | ||
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'''Your Role''': You are a Long Now Foundation lab assistant. (We are pretending that Long Now is another time-oriented research laboratory.) | '''Your Role''': You are a Long Now Foundation lab assistant. (We are pretending that Long Now is another time-oriented research laboratory.) | ||
− | '''Handout Instructions''': | + | '''What To Wear''': |
+ | * Lab coat | ||
+ | * <u>Long Now Foundation</u> name tag insert (should be hidden within your lanyard already) | ||
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+ | '''What Your Character Knows''': | ||
+ | * Trenchwood Institute is a secretive, but qualified research facility | ||
+ | * Nothing about the Grand Unveiling nor the mishap | ||
+ | * You've never heard of co-keypads or chronomentometers (those are the secret inventions of Prof. Chronos and Doctor When) | ||
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+ | '''Puzzles At This Site''': | ||
+ | * Calibration--mandatory | ||
+ | * TBD--optional | ||
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+ | '''Where To Get Materials''': GC HQ | ||
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+ | '''Site Setup''': | ||
+ | * Greet front desk person. | ||
+ | * Call GC. | ||
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+ | '''Handout Instructions''': | ||
+ | * Discreetly keep count of how many teams have picked up the mandatory puzzle...so you know when to close down! | ||
+ | * The initial interaction should go something like: | ||
LAB ASSISTANT: | LAB ASSISTANT: | ||
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− | + | <poem style="border: 1px dashed #2f6fab; background-color: #f9f9f9; padding: 1em;"> | |
+ | Welcome to the Long Now Foundation. Your colleagues at Trenchwood called ahead and asked us to give you this Computer Remote Access Program to the time machine's View-O-Scope log. Here are two copies in case you want to run it on two computers. The disks are <u>exactly</u> the same. Just run the program on this disk and enter access code 991858. It should autorun on PCs, but you'll have to open index.html on Macs. | ||
+ | </poem> | ||
+ | <poem style="border: 1px dashed #2f6fab; background-color: #f9f9f9; padding: 1em;"> | ||
+ | Also, Trenchwood said you may want these...something called "co-keypad grids". I've never heard of them before, but you can have 'em if you want 'em. | ||
+ | </poem> | ||
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+ | Make sure they write down the access code. Then hand out two disks and offer them 15 extra co-keypad grids; they may choose to not all take them. | ||
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+ | '''Hints''': Teams may call in for hints. But if you familiarize yourself with the hints below, feel free to give hints. | ||
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+ | '''Answers''': Teams have been instructed to call in their answer to Calibration to the Institute. If they try to give their answer to you, remind them to follow their instructions. | ||
− | '''Site Close Down''': Thank host | + | '''Site Close Down''': |
+ | * Thank host | ||
+ | * Call GC to confirm you're leaving. | ||
+ | * Return your name badge(s) and lanyard to GC HQ at the end of your shift | ||
'''Other Instructions''': | '''Other Instructions''': | ||
* Stay in character. | * Stay in character. | ||
* Except ... if a team says "time out," break character and help them. | * Except ... if a team says "time out," break character and help them. | ||
− | * There are lots of seats outside...and a few seats inside. Only allow the players to use the inside seats if it's not bothering the real Long Now staff and visitors. Use your judgment. | + | * There are lots of seats outside...and a few seats inside (check out the back room). Only allow the players to use the inside seats if it's not bothering the real Long Now staff and visitors. Use your judgment. |
==Detailed Description== | ==Detailed Description== | ||
− | Players receive a | + | Players receive a CD containing the View-O-Scope video recording of the different times that Doctor When has bounced to. Each of these is a short clip from a famous movie scene (Dr. Strangelove, Titanic, and Gone With the Wind are a few examples), with Doctor When inserted in a (hopefully) funny way. The players' goal is to figure out where Doctor When bounced to at the end, so that they can "calibrate" the time machine appropriately and "lock on" to him. Additional details that are relevant at other points: 1) Doctor When loses the envelope during the Vertigo scene at Fort Point - they'll need this information later to get to the Retrieve the Letter event; and 2) in Act III, players will use the sequence again (which will end partway through) to figure out his next location quickly. |
==Puzzle Answer== | ==Puzzle Answer== | ||
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==Budget== | ==Budget== | ||
− | Cost for | + | Cost for CDs to deliver the puzzle ($230), plus any cost to produce the movie (?). Estimate: $200. |
==Credits== | ==Credits== | ||
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==Hints== | ==Hints== | ||
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+ | Ask teams what they have done, probing details if necessary (often this will get a team unstuck by themselves). | ||
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Teams are most likely going to call GC for hints, but it would be good if the on-site staffer was also able to help. | Teams are most likely going to call GC for hints, but it would be good if the on-site staffer was also able to help. | ||
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Responses are delivered by Lab Assistant over the phone. | Responses are delivered by Lab Assistant over the phone. | ||
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Latest revision as of 23:13, 30 March 2012
Contents
- 1 Status
- 2 Location
- 3 Type
- 4 How To Give To Teams
- 5 Plot Setup
- 6 Props
- 7 Plot Point to Convey
- 8 Short Description
- 9 Open Time Period
- 10 Staff Instructions
- 11 Detailed Description
- 12 Puzzle Answer
- 13 Puzzle Solution
- 14 Budget
- 15 Credits
- 16 Manager
- 17 Hints
- 18 Response to Correct Answer
- 19 To Do
- 20 Other Notes
Status
::FINAL-READY::
Location
Name And Address: Long Now Foundation (posing as a time-oriented research laboratory), Fort Mason Center, Building A, San Francisco, CA
Parking: Some free spots just outside of parking attendant's booth, pay parking inside lot
Bathroom: Yes, nearby building
Food:Safeway and a few restaurants a few blocks away
GC PoC: Allen, (415) 475-8463, lab@trenchwood.com
Site PoC: Danielle Engleman of LNF
Type
Mandatory Puzzle
How To Give To Teams
Lab assistant says this over phone. Note that we really want to make sure teams understand that the Doctor is going through different periods of time and space:
Are you on speakerphone?
[wait until they are]
We've determined that one problems caused by the failure of co-keypad #34 is that it is causing Doctor When to bounce around through time and space, appearing and reappearing at different points in the past, present, and future. Who knows what dangers he's facing!
Thanks to you we're almost able to rescue the Doctor from this plight. We do that by having the time machine project a return time portal archway to his current spatial-temporal coordinates.
But we need to do one last thing before the machine is fully repaired and can project a return portal: we need to recalibrate it.
If you can calculate the next time he'll materialize in, we can use that information to recalibrate the machine.
The machine's Temporal View-O-Scope has recorded the different times and places he's visited so far. So please go to the Long Now Foundation in Ft. Mason where their crack temporal mechanics will give you access to the View-O-Scope log. Once you've calculated his next destination just call the Institute.
SUPPLEMENTAL EMAIL
Research Project Title: Calibration
Objective: Help Institute to recalibrate the time machine by calculating the next time Doctor When will bounce to; do this by looking for patterns in the times the Doctor has bounced to so far; the log of his travels can be accessed using Long Now's Computer Remote Access Program for the time machine's View-O-Scope; enter access code 991858 into the program
Location: Long Now Foundation, Fort Mason Center, Building A, San Francisco
Upon Completion: Call the Institute and speak with any lab assistant
Parking: Some free spots just outside of parking attendant's booth, pay parking inside lot
Need To Park: Yes
Personnel Required: All
Bathrooms At Location: Yes
Snacks At Location: Safeway and a few restaurants a few blocks away
NOTE: Be sure to bring your Computer Remote Access Program disk with you.
Plot Setup
- Iconoclast scientist Doctor When has attempted to demonstrate his time machine before an audience of VIPs.
- But it malfunctioned due to a faulty key component. The players have helped fix that.
- The malfunction is causing the Doctor to bounce around randomly in time from era to era, facing untold dangers!
- Repairs also required access to the Doctor's supercomputer, but the team successfully hacked the password.
- Along the way they learned someone named "Buffy" was important to him back in high school.
Props
- 32 or 34 copies of Trenchwood Industries CDs, which contain the Calibration puzzle (2 per team, with 0 spares)
- 16 copies of optional TBD puzzle (1 per team, with 0 spares)
- 1 Lab coat (should already have from previous location)
- 1 Long Now name badge and lanyard (should already have lanyard from previous location; look inside the lanyard for this badge insert)
- 120 (7 per team) copies of blank co-keypad sheets (for use in 1.03.05 Co-Keypad Optional Driving Puzzles)
Plot Point to Convey
General time hijinx, ending in knowing that the next place Doctor When will bounce to is the Big Bang.
Short Description
Teams have to predict next time Doctor When will bounce to based on DVD containing short clips of where he's been so far.
Open Time Period
Saturday, 2 PM till all teams (16 in Game 1, 17 in Game 2) have picked up Calibration (estimated 4 PM)
Staff Instructions
Your Role: You are a Long Now Foundation lab assistant. (We are pretending that Long Now is another time-oriented research laboratory.)
What To Wear:
- Lab coat
- Long Now Foundation name tag insert (should be hidden within your lanyard already)
What Your Character Knows:
- Trenchwood Institute is a secretive, but qualified research facility
- Nothing about the Grand Unveiling nor the mishap
- You've never heard of co-keypads or chronomentometers (those are the secret inventions of Prof. Chronos and Doctor When)
Puzzles At This Site:
- Calibration--mandatory
- TBD--optional
Where To Get Materials: GC HQ
Site Setup:
- Greet front desk person.
- Call GC.
Handout Instructions:
- Discreetly keep count of how many teams have picked up the mandatory puzzle...so you know when to close down!
- The initial interaction should go something like:
LAB ASSISTANT:
Welcome to the Long Now Foundation. Your colleagues at Trenchwood called ahead and asked us to give you this Computer Remote Access Program to the time machine's View-O-Scope log. Here are two copies in case you want to run it on two computers. The disks are exactly the same. Just run the program on this disk and enter access code 991858. It should autorun on PCs, but you'll have to open index.html on Macs.
Also, Trenchwood said you may want these...something called "co-keypad grids". I've never heard of them before, but you can have 'em if you want 'em.
Make sure they write down the access code. Then hand out two disks and offer them 15 extra co-keypad grids; they may choose to not all take them.
Hints: Teams may call in for hints. But if you familiarize yourself with the hints below, feel free to give hints.
Answers: Teams have been instructed to call in their answer to Calibration to the Institute. If they try to give their answer to you, remind them to follow their instructions.
Site Close Down:
- Thank host
- Call GC to confirm you're leaving.
- Return your name badge(s) and lanyard to GC HQ at the end of your shift
Other Instructions:
- Stay in character.
- Except ... if a team says "time out," break character and help them.
- There are lots of seats outside...and a few seats inside (check out the back room). Only allow the players to use the inside seats if it's not bothering the real Long Now staff and visitors. Use your judgment.
Detailed Description
Players receive a CD containing the View-O-Scope video recording of the different times that Doctor When has bounced to. Each of these is a short clip from a famous movie scene (Dr. Strangelove, Titanic, and Gone With the Wind are a few examples), with Doctor When inserted in a (hopefully) funny way. The players' goal is to figure out where Doctor When bounced to at the end, so that they can "calibrate" the time machine appropriately and "lock on" to him. Additional details that are relevant at other points: 1) Doctor When loses the envelope during the Vertigo scene at Fort Point - they'll need this information later to get to the Retrieve the Letter event; and 2) in Act III, players will use the sequence again (which will end partway through) to figure out his next location quickly.
Puzzle Answer
NEXTGATEWAYTHEBIGBANG
Puzzle Solution
0. The movie clips are in alphabetical order by movie, so their original order is irrelevant.
1. Order the movie clips chronologically by the time depicted:
Movie | Original Order | Year |
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Land of the Lost | 8 | -65000000 |
2001: A Space Odyssey | 19 | -3000000 |
10000 BC | 16 | -10000 |
The Ten Commandments | 15 | -1300 |
Spartacus | 14 | -71 |
Ben-Hur | 3 | 29 |
Monty Python's Life of Brian | 9 | 34 |
Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 10 | 932 |
The Adventures of Robin Hood | 1 | 1300 |
Amadeus | 2 | 1787 |
History of the World, Part I | 7 | 1789 |
Gone With The Wind | 6 | 1861 |
The Wizard of Oz | 21 | 1900 |
Titanic | 18 | 1912 |
Raiders of the Lost Ark | 12 | 1936 |
The Sound of Music | 13 | 1938 |
Casablanca | 4 | 1941 |
Vertigo | 20 | 1958 |
Dr. Strangelove | 5 | 1960 |
Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 17 | 2029 |
Planet of the Apes | 11 | 3978 |
2. Transform the dates in the timestamp to letters, setting A=1, B=2, etc.
Movie | Date | Message 1 |
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Land of the Lost | 19 | S |
2001: A Space Odyssey | 5 | E |
10000 BC | 20 | T |
The Ten Commandments | 3 | C |
Spartacus | 12 | L |
Ben-Hur | 15 | O |
Life of Brian | 3 | C |
Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 11 | K |
The Adventures of Robin Hood | 13 | M |
Amadeus | 15 | O |
History of the World, Part I | 14 | N |
Gone With The Wind | 20 | T |
The Wizard of Oz | 8 | H |
Titanic | 16 | P |
Raiders of the Lost Ark | 15 | O |
The Sound of Music | 9 | I |
Casablanca | 14 | N |
Vertigo | 20 | T |
Dr. Strangelove | 19 | S |
Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 21 | U |
Planet of the Apes | 16 | P |
3. The message, SETCLOCKMONTHPOINTSUP, tells the players to set clock hands according to the hour and minute of the timestamp, and then to rotate the clock so that the hour equal to the month of the timestamp is pointing up. The clock hands form semaphore letters.
Movie | Month | Hour | Minute | Semaphore | Message 2 |
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Land of the Lost | 02 | 21 | 32 | SW,SE | N |
2001: A Space Odyssey | 04 | 02 | 28 | NW,NE | U |
10000 BC | 03 | 10 | 30 | SW,E | M |
The Ten Commandments | 06 | 03 | 00 | W,S | B |
Spartacus | 12 | 01 | 30 | S,NE | E |
Ben-Hur | 03 | 06 | 00 | W,E | R |
Life of Brian | 09 | 18 | 08 | W,SE | S |
Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 05 | 03 | 32 | NW,NE | U |
The Adventures of Robin Hood | 04 | 06 | 58 | SW,E | M |
Amadeus | 01 | 08 | 20 | SW,E | M |
History of the World, Part I | 10 | 08 | 34 | W,NW | O |
Gone With The Wind | 11 | 04 | 54 | N,S | D |
The Wizard of Oz | 06 | 16 | 30 | NW,N | T |
Titanic | 02 | 03 | 24 | E,NE | W |
Raiders of the Lost Ark | 11 | 17 | 01 | S,NE | E |
The Sound of Music | 10 | 02 | 28 | SW,SE | N |
Casablanca | 03 | 13 | 14 | NW,N | T |
Vertigo | 03 | 18 | 07 | NW,E | Y |
Dr. Strangelove | 07 | 15 | 56 | W,SE | S |
Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 06 | 13 | 23 | NW,SW | I |
Planet of the Apes | 01 | 14 | 28 | NE,SE | X |
4. The second message, NUMBERSUMMODTWENTYSIX, tells the players to add all of the numbers (not digits) in the timestamp, take mod(26) of those numbers, and transform them into letters, to letters, setting A=1, B=2, etc.
Movie | Year | Date | Month | Hour | Minute | Sum | Answer |
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Land of the Lost | 96 | 19 | 02 | 21 | 32 | 14 | N |
2001: A Space Odyssey | 44 | 5 | 04 | 02 | 28 | 5 | E |
10000 BC | 13 | 20 | 03 | 10 | 30 | 24 | X |
The Ten Commandments | 08 | 3 | 06 | 03 | 00 | 20 | T |
Spartacus | 30 | 12 | 12 | 01 | 30 | 7 | G |
Ben-Hur | 29 | 15 | 03 | 06 | 00 | 1 | A |
Life of Brian | 34 | 3 | 09 | 18 | 08 | 20 | T |
Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 32 | 11 | 05 | 03 | 32 | 5 | E |
The Adventures of Robin Hood | 72 | 13 | 04 | 06 | 58 | 23 | W |
Amadeus | 87 | 15 | 01 | 08 | 20 | 1 | A |
History of the World, Part I | 89 | 14 | 10 | 08 | 34 | 25 | Y |
Gone With The Wind | 61 | 20 | 11 | 04 | 54 | 20 | T |
The Wizard of Oz | 00 | 8 | 06 | 16 | 30 | 8 | H |
Titanic | 12 | 16 | 02 | 03 | 24 | 5 | E |
Raiders of the Lost Ark | 36 | 15 | 11 | 17 | 01 | 2 | B |
The Sound of Music | 38 | 9 | 10 | 02 | 28 | 9 | I |
Casablanca | 41 | 14 | 03 | 13 | 14 | 7 | G |
Vertigo | 58 | 20 | 03 | 18 | 07 | 2 | B |
Dr. Strangelove | 60 | 19 | 07 | 15 | 56 | 1 | A |
Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 29 | 21 | 06 | 13 | 23 | 14 | N |
Planet of the Apes | 78 | 16 | 01 | 14 | 28 | 7 | G |
Budget
Cost for CDs to deliver the puzzle ($230), plus any cost to produce the movie (?). Estimate: $200.
Credits
Design: Erik Stuart, Wei-Hwa Huang (and Melissa Wilson!)
Movie production: Allen Cohn, Dan Kurtz, Christian Hoobyar, Ben Hansen, Ellen Juhlin, Wei-Hwa Huang
Manager
Allen
Hints
Ask teams what they have done, probing details if necessary (often this will get a team unstuck by themselves).
Teams are most likely going to call GC for hints, but it would be good if the on-site staffer was also able to help.
General hints:
- Any data associated with the movie – title, release date, names of actors or directors, etc. –is irrelevant to the puzzle. Recall that the introductory message said that these are actual events, despite their similarity to famous movie scenes.
- Anything Doctor When does is also irrelevant.
- The only thing the clips themselves are used for is to set the order. After that, the timestamp carries all the information.
- The "mass loss detected" message after Vertigo is not relevant to this puzzle.
- The semaphore letters are not exact, but it should be generally clear what letter they represent if teams look at an actual clock with hands set correctly.
- There’s a lot of data here – lots of numbers in the timestamp, the times depicted, and a lot of irrelevant information. If teams are having trouble, steer them toward ordering the clips as a first step.
Q: We can’t figure out what movie X is.
A: “Movie? What movie? These are real events –where the Doctor is in trouble, no less! Don’t think about any movies – that can’t possibly be right.”
Q: The timestamps are all screwed up! (E.g., months are wrong, or daytime scenes have a night timestamp.)
A: “Yep, it looks like a bunch of that data got corrupted. The years, though, seem right – or at least possibly right, given that the View-O-Scope can only show two digits.”
Q: We don’t know anything about the years when some of these scenes took place!
A: “Well – we can figure out _something_, can’t we? No, we don’t know exactly when the Doctor was running from dinosaurs – but it wasn’t the present day, and it wasn’t 5 billion years ago. Our margin of error may be wide, but we do have a range.”
Q: What the hell do we do? There’s so much data!
A: “Hmm… there has to be some reason for the Doctor bouncing to various times. If only we could figure out the right order in which to sift through all this data. With the scenes themselves - not the timestamps, since those seem to be at least partially corrupted – how could we order them?”
Response to Correct Answer
Responses are delivered by Lab Assistant over the phone.
Great! We'll get to work recalibrating the time machine.
To Do
Ben and Ellen are editing. Dan will make Javascript for distribution DVDs Make copies of DVDs.