Post by Judge Sam on May 13, 2007 15:41:51 GMT -5
I spent a whole bunch of time creating and testing the race, and it went all very good except for that damn last puzzle lol. It sucks that so many people did awesome up to that point and then just couldn't complete it due to not seeing the word "Elian" in it. =/ The race shouldn't have rested on that, and I apologize. Huge bummer. I also should have said it will take 45-75 minutes instead of 30-60.
The crappy part is that the original puzzle I had in that final spot was canned because it was too hard lol. I made this connect-the-dots in an effort to make the race easier.
Hopefully you printed it or used paint to connect the dots, it can be hard to just see. The people who tested the race all completed it and I think once you know the word is Elian (and that's a name) you'll be able to see it and not "unsee" it. Everybody got everything but the word "Elian." Some people were stuck on the E, thinking it was a F. I guess I can see that since there wasn't two dots in the bottom for a E.
The other hard letter was the "a." If you look at the letter a when you type it it looks like:
a
So I guess that could have been hard. Some of your guess though could not have worked, because letters in them were used before in other words and did not look like that. For example, anything with a e, v, or s could not have been it because those letters looked nothing like previous letters. The whole Elian Gonzales thing was pretty huge in the news, though that might be inflated for me because I lived in South Florida at the time it happened. Just searching Elian on google would clue you in on who it was since he lives in Cuba now.
Yeah so that really sucks. I should have put more dots to make it absolutely clear. Lots of people got stuck on that and it sucks, especially so close to the end just because they couldn't see "Elian." It's not cool that I made a race and like a third of the people couldn't complete it.
I'll try and avoid things like that in the future.
I am glad that everyone gave it their best though and there were no other hangups. =) Again, I'm sorry, and I hope you enjoyed the rest of the puzzle even if you were frustrated at the end.
Results will be revealed at Exile #2.
The crappy part is that the original puzzle I had in that final spot was canned because it was too hard lol. I made this connect-the-dots in an effort to make the race easier.
Hopefully you printed it or used paint to connect the dots, it can be hard to just see. The people who tested the race all completed it and I think once you know the word is Elian (and that's a name) you'll be able to see it and not "unsee" it. Everybody got everything but the word "Elian." Some people were stuck on the E, thinking it was a F. I guess I can see that since there wasn't two dots in the bottom for a E.
The other hard letter was the "a." If you look at the letter a when you type it it looks like:
a
So I guess that could have been hard. Some of your guess though could not have worked, because letters in them were used before in other words and did not look like that. For example, anything with a e, v, or s could not have been it because those letters looked nothing like previous letters. The whole Elian Gonzales thing was pretty huge in the news, though that might be inflated for me because I lived in South Florida at the time it happened. Just searching Elian on google would clue you in on who it was since he lives in Cuba now.
Yeah so that really sucks. I should have put more dots to make it absolutely clear. Lots of people got stuck on that and it sucks, especially so close to the end just because they couldn't see "Elian." It's not cool that I made a race and like a third of the people couldn't complete it.
I'll try and avoid things like that in the future.I am glad that everyone gave it their best though and there were no other hangups. =) Again, I'm sorry, and I hope you enjoyed the rest of the puzzle even if you were frustrated at the end.
Results will be revealed at Exile #2.