Events
Google Doc: Puzzles vs. Playtesters
"Event" is an umbrella term for puzzles, presentations, and activities. Since this game is not 100% puzzle-driven, we needed a term that covers every type of waypoint the players will experience.
TECH NOTE: The tables in this page are dynamically-generated from the individual event pages. If something weird shows up here it's probably because there was something screwy in the event pages. Feel free to edit these tables but if you don't understand what's going on, ask Wei-Hwa.
If you need to know the puzzle status codes, look at MediaWiki:Emoticons (we're using Emoticons software to generate them).
Act 0 (Pre-clues)
| Name | Order | Type | Status | Short Description | Manager |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trenchwood Web Site |
0.1 |
Introductory Website |
::BUILD-READY:: |
n/a |
David |
Act 1
| Name | Order | Type | Status | Short Description | Manager |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.01 Introductory Lecture 1 |
Mandatory Presentation |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Doctor When gives intro speech, steps inside time machine, which malfunctions and he never exits. |
Erik | |
| 1.11.01 Intense Secrets |
Optional Puzzle (JOURNALISM) |
::FINAL-READY:: |
A pulp science fiction story written by Doctor When is discovered in the past. |
Erik Stuart | |
| 1.11.00 Role Puzzles |
Optional Puzzles |
::Revise:: |
Directions on how to keep track of which teams do which role puzzles. |
Trisha and Wei-Hwa | |
| 1.07.05 Location: Letterman |
Location With Multiple Puzzles |
::Revise:: |
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| 1.09 Fabric of Time |
Optional Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
The fabric of history has been subtly altered and must be restored. |
Sean | |
| 1.00 Registration |
Mandatory Event |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Visitors turn in their waivers and are given "security badges" |
Erik | |
| 1.11.04 (REDACTED) Redaction Agency Puzzle |
Optional Puzzle (GOVERNMENT) |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Optional role puzzle--government. Teams are told that there is a suspected mole at the lab. |
Wei-Hwa | |
| 1.05.3 Wormhole |
Optional Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Particle maze in mirror grid |
Eric L | |
| 1.11.03 Particle Zoo |
Optional Puzzle (SCIENTIST) |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Players need to classify a large number of "particles" (similar images). |
David Greenspan | |
| 1.11.02b Income Statement |
Optional Puzzle (INVESTOR) |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Followup to Balance Sheet; bizarre income statement reveals another message. |
Allen | |
| 1.02 Core Dump 1 |
Mandatory Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Each team is given a corrupted "Toggle Burner" core dump board + core dump printout to decode in order to figure out what's wrong with the time machine. |
Dwight | |
| 1.11.02a Balance Sheet Puzzle |
Optional Puzzle (INVESTOR) |
::FINAL-READY:: |
An unusual financial balance sheet reveals instructions on how to raise money. |
Allen | |
| 1.11 Fetch the Letter |
Mandatory Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Retrieve the envelope from where it's been waiting for 50 years. |
Sean | |
| 1.10 Locate the Letter |
Mandatory Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Players must study the video of the Doctor's journey through time to figure out where he lost the envelope. |
Allen | |
| 1.08 Send Me Back |
Mandatory Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Garbled silent video message from Doctor When instructing where to send him. |
Sean | |
| 1.06 Calibration |
Mandatory Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Teams have to predict next time Doctor When will bounce to based on DVD containing short clips of where he's been so far. |
Allen | |
| 1.04 Choose Your Own Adventure |
Mandatory Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
A "Choose your own adventure" book "The Dextrus of Tempus" written by Wesley while he was in high school contains his password in a hidden code. |
Trisha and Wei-Hwa | |
| 1.03 Tachyon Midi Ether Co-Keypad 1 |
Mandatory Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Team designs new co-keypad #34 based on specifications from Prof. Dorian Clair to replace damaged one. |
Wei-Hwa | |
| 1.03.05 Co-Keypad Optional Driving Puzzles |
Optional, ongoing Puzzle |
::Revise:: |
Originally we thought there was only one co-keypad broken, but now there's a lot more. Teams can fix them as they're travelling, if they wish. |
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| 1.07 Feynman Diagrams |
1.06.02 |
Optional Puzzle |
::PROTO:: |
Players have to decode modified Feynman particle interaction diagrams to design placement of mirrors in device. |
? |
| 1.12 Consolidation 1 |
1.10 |
Mandatory Puzzle followed by Mandatory Presentation |
::REVISE:: |
Final fix before Doctor can be returned to the present. |
Wei-Hwa |
Act 2
| Name | Order | Type | Status | Short Description | Manager |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.01 Introductory Lecture 2 |
Mandatory Presentation |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Prof. Chronus gives a welcoming speech to the teams, parallel to Dr. When's speech at the start of Act I. |
Erik and Ellen | |
| 2.02 Core Dump 2 |
Mandatory Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Teams receive the "core dump" from Prof. Chronos's time machine, and try to figure out why it's broken. |
David Greenspan | |
| 2.04 Chronomentometer 1 |
Mandatory Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
The players need to help Doctor When design a new quantum chronomentometer. |
Wei-Hwa | |
| 2.05 Mix Tape Puzzle |
Mandatory Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Teams get a mix tape with 18 songs, each with the word "time" in the title, plus an insert with (out-of-order) artists and years and a poem from Catherine. |
Erik | |
| 2.07 Art History |
Mandatory Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Prof. Chronos has managed to insert herself into famous works of art to "tell" the teams where she wants them to send her next. |
Erik | |
| 2.09 Fix The View-O-Scope |
Optional Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
The teams need to help Doctor When repair the time machine's View-O-Scope. |
Sean | |
| 2.10 Christmas Party |
Mandatory Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Prof. Chronos needs Wesley's locker combo; ghostly voices from 1986 heard at the high school in 2011 help teams find where it might be recorded. |
Dave S | |
| 2.11 Locker Combo |
Mandatory Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Teams need to figure out the master locker combo from the principal's notes. |
Sean | |
| 2.06 Quantum Time Vibrations |
Optional Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
The time machine has detected quantum time vibrations that might help the players locate where Prof. Chronos hid a message. |
Erik | |
| 2.00 Sign In Act 2 |
Mandatory Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Signing in to presentation is a complicated puzzle that requires collaboration between different roles. |
Wei-Hwa | |
| 2.13 Consolidation 2 |
Mandatory Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Final fixes before Prof. Chronos can be returned to the present. |
Wei-Hwa | |
| 2.12 Restaurant Coupon |
Optional Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Figure out complex takeout food order to satisfy ravenous lab assistants. |
Thomas | |
| 2.03 Invalid Permit |
Mandatory Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
A government regulator threatens to shut down the lab unless a seemingly impossible series of forms are filled out correctly. |
Wei-Hwa | |
| 2.08 Sheet Music Puzzle |
2.05.03 |
Optional Puzzle |
::PROTO:: |
An unusual piece of sheet music from the past contains a message from Doctor When. |
Allen & Ellen |
Act 3
| Name | Order | Type | Status | Short Description | Manager |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.01 Introductory Lecture 1, Reprise |
Mandatory Presentation |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Exact repeat of Act I, diverging when players solve first puzzle instantly. |
Allen | |
| 3.10 Detention and Dance |
Mandatory Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Players must figure out how to escape detention so they can complete the first step of their mission. |
Erik | |
| 3.07 Calibration Redux |
Mandatory Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Shorter version of Act I, with new solution. |
Allen | |
| 3.08.01 Mission Training-"Chrononaut Rapid Acclimation Protocol" |
Mandatory Activity |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Drill the "mission dossier" into the players' minds by making them play a human board game with 80s trivia and giant dice. |
Erik, Melissa | |
| 3.09 Send Players To 1986 |
Mandatory Activity |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Players enter the time machine and go back to 1986. |
Melissa | |
| 3.13 Lunch puzzle |
Optional Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Doris the Lunch Lady will give a special prize to anyone who figures out what the Mystery Meat really is. |
Erik | |
| 3.17 Dénouement |
Mandatory Presentation |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Wrap-up lecture, not puzzle |
Allen | |
| 3.00 Registration Redux |
Mandatory Event |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Visitors turn in their waivers and are given "security badges" |
Erik | |
| 3.05 Yearbook (Jiffy Pop) Solve |
Mandatory Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
A puzzle that is a [Bootstrap Paradox]: The teams solve it, and then later have a hand in its creation. |
Eric L | |
| 3.12 Yearbook (Jiffy Pop) Puzzle, Closing the Loop |
Mandatory Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Re-construct the puzzle that was received earlier. |
Eric L | |
| 3.16 Happy Ending |
Mandatory Presentation |
::FINAL-READY:: |
The "Science Fair Incident" played out live. |
Allen | |
| 3.11 TRASH |
Mandatory Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Locate the letter after Chronos discards it. |
Erik | |
| 3.04 Choose Your Own Adventure Redux |
Mandatory Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Same as Act I. |
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| 3.03 Tachyon Midi Ether Co-Keypad 1 Redux |
Mandatory Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
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| 3.02 Core Dump 1 Redux |
Mandatory Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Same as Act I. |
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| 3.15 Banner Event |
3.09.02 |
Optional Puzzle |
::PROTO:: |
Teams are pressed by the PMHS Typography Club to redo school banners |
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| 3.14 Apple II |
3.09.02 |
Optional Puzzle |
::FINAL-READY:: |
Fortune Teller program for Apple II
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Sean |
Unplaced
| Name | Order | Type | Status | Short Description | Manager |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template-Event |
Mandatory Puzzle |
::Revise:: |
Trisha and Wei-Hwa | ||
| Template-Location |
::Revise:: |
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| Letter Jumble |
Anywhere |
Optional Puzzle |
::PROTO:: |
Message hidden in seemingly random sprawl of letters |
Justin |
| Cartoon Puzzle |
Anywhere |
Optional Puzzle |
::BUILD:: |
Mis-ordered cartoon panels |
Dwight |
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