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[WW] Spies vs. Spies - GAME OVER - KGB WINS

Ravenvii, can we get a break down of each of the clues, who fingered who, who sabotaged, etc? Or do you not have such logs?
 
another aspect to work on is to balance the clues more. they were very uneven: one of the ones we got was ambiguous and even if it wasn't it would only exclude 4 squates at best. others ruled out over half the board. one excluded the correct cache location (major kudos to abbie who decided to ignore it) and the last two, by themseves, appear to pinpoint the correct location (except the contradiction with an earlier one
 
Koodauw said:
Ravenvii, can we get a break down of each of the clues, who fingered who, who sabotaged, etc? Or do you not have such logs?
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Here's the clues I used in the game. Sorry, I don't keep track of actions.


You know the Beatles' famous photo? The nuclear cache is NOT in any of the spots that contains a character from the name of that photo.

The nuclear cache is NOT in a spot that has a number divisible by 4.

Imagine a world map overlaid on the chess board. The nuclear cache is NOT in North America.

Michael Jackson made the Moonwalk famous in a certain performance. The nuclear cache is hidden in a spot which does NOT contain any letters from the title of this performance.

Imagine the chess board overlaid with a map of the United States. The nuclear cache is NOT in an area of Moyank24's state of mind.

The nuclear cache is NOT in the upper right quadrant.

The nuclear cache IS in the proximity of Florida. Assuming the United States is the entire world, that is. Which it is... right? Right?

The nuclear cache is NOT anywhere where you can move a Castle from any of its 4 starting points in the game of Chess.

The nuclear cache IS on a space only accessible by a king'd piece in the game of Checkers.

Afraid. There's a hint in the word itself, but not the meaning.

The cache is hidden in the spot which is only accessible by a pawn during the first round in Chess.

It is NOT in a spot accessible by the Knight during the very first turn in Chess.

Things like to come in threes, don't they?

The three stooges approve of this message.

'Freaky Friday' tells you the letter of the spot you're looking for. Twice.

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Don't panic said:
another aspect to work on is to balance the clues more. they were very uneven: one of the ones we got was ambiguous and even if it wasn't it would only exclude 4 squates at best. others ruled out over half the board. one excluded the correct cache location (major kudos to abbie who decided to ignore it) and the last two, by themseves, appear to pinpoint the correct location (except the contradiction with an earlier one
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Yeah, the 'incorrect' clue was the checkers king'd piece clue. In the game, a king'd piece doesn't access any spots inaccessible by normal pieces. That should've told you something. A rather bad clue, I admit.
 
ravenvii said:
Here's the clues I used in the game. Sorry, I don't keep track of actions.


1) You know the Beatles' famous photo? The nuclear cache is NOT in any of the spots that contains a character from the name of that photo.

2) The nuclear cache is NOT in a spot that has a number divisible by 4.

3) Imagine a world map overlaid on the chess board. The nuclear cache is NOT in North America.

4) Michael Jackson made the Moonwalk famous in a certain performance. The nuclear cache is hidden in a spot which does NOT contain any letters from the title of this performance.

5) Imagine the chess board overlaid with a map of the United States. The nuclear cache is NOT in an area of Moyank24's state of mind.

6) The nuclear cache is NOT in the upper right quadrant.

7) The nuclear cache IS in the proximity of Florida. Assuming the United States is the entire world, that is. Which it is... right? Right?

8) The nuclear cache is NOT anywhere where you can move a Castle from any of its 4 starting points in the game of Chess.

9) The nuclear cache IS on a space only accessible by a king'd piece in the game of Checkers.

10) Afraid. There's a hint in the word itself, but not the meaning.

11) The cache is hidden in the spot which is only accessible by a pawn during the first round in Chess.

12) It is NOT in a spot accessible by the Knight during the very first turn in Chess.

13) Things like to come in threes, don't they?

14) The three stooges approve of this message.

14) 'Freaky Friday' tells you the letter of the spot you're looking for. Twice.

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Yeah, the 'incorrect' clue was the checkers king'd piece clue. In the game, a king'd piece doesn't access any spots inaccessible by normal pieces. That should've told you something. A rather bad clue, I admit.
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i didn't have the checkes clue.
but yeah, checkers are usually put on the dark squares, so F3 (or any other 'white space' would not be accessible by any piece, king'd or not, at any point of the game

i was referring to the the 'accessible by the pawn only in the first move' (clue 11)
F3 is also accessible by the knight in the first move (it is in fact the 4th most common opening move in chess), which makes it not 'only' accessible by the pawn.

clue 12 is also incorrect, for the same reason (but i didn't have that one)
 
Don't panic said:
i didn't have the checkes clue.
but yeah, checkers are usually put on the dark squares, so F3 (or any other 'white space' would not be accessible by any piece, king'd or not, at any point of the game

i was referring to the the 'accessible by the pawn only in the first move' (clue 11)
F3 is also accessible by the knight in the first move (it is in fact the 4th most common opening move in chess), which makes it not 'only' accessible by the pawn.

clue 12 is also incorrect, for the same reason (but i didn't have that one)
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And I thought (at the time) that the knight begins at F1 (and its equivalents around the board). That spot's actually the Rook's.

Crap. My bad. :eek:
 
Don't panic said:
i didn't have the checkes clue.
but yeah, checkers are usually put on the dark squares, so F3 (or any other 'white space' would not be accessible by any piece, king'd or not, at any point of the game

i was referring to the the 'accessible by the pawn only in the first move' (clue 11)
F3 is also accessible by the knight in the first move (it is in fact the 4th most common opening move in chess), which makes it not 'only' accessible by the pawn.

clue 12 is also incorrect, for the same reason (but i didn't have that one)
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Yeah, I got the knight clue, so it wasn't going to end well for me no matter what :(
 
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