Novago Puzzle Cache Workshop Event Cache
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Novago Puzzle Cache Workshop
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
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A general workshop/class to help you work on caching puzzles. Prepare for the 2013 Snowmageddon by having something to do (like figure out some puzzles).
What: NoVAGO Puzzle Cache Workshop
When: Thursday, September 20, 2012
Time: 6:30PM - 9:00PM
Location:George Mason Regional Library. 7001 Little River Turnpike, Annandale
Specifically Where: Meeting Room
Puzzle caches. You either love them or avoid them like the plague. For those of you in the latter group and the those of you in the former who would like to hone your skills, this may be the event for you.
This event will be a reprise of the NoVAGO Puzzle workshops of '09 and in May and December of last year. The major change is that I promise to shut up a lot earlier so we can actually work on puzzles rather than listening to me drone on. I know I said that last time, but this time the slides have several places where the speaker's notes say, "OK, speaker gets to shut up at this point."
What we will attempt to do is to look at puzzle type caches and some of the techniques that may be useful in solving them. What we will find is that with a few tricks, some puzzles are a lot easier that they appear on first blush. We will learn about red herrings, obfuscation and a whole lot of other things. And we will also come to the conclusion that some puzzles are just hard.
The format of this event will be as interactive as possible. Like last time we will have a series of puzzles that while their coordinates may be as bogus as the coordinates of this event, they are good learning tools. We will urge you to form into working groups so everyone can learn from each other and we can use individual strengths to their best advantage.
Feel free to bring along some real-life puzzles that may be bothering you. I cannot guarantee they will get solved, but based on what you should be learning, it can't hurt. There could easily be someone attending who can give you some help.
If you plan to attend, please indicate in the logs section. I need to bring paper copies of things and want to have enough for everyone. I will bring soft copies of everything if you would prefer that format, but nothing will specifically require a system. I will try to have pdf, doc, and ods formats so most folks should be covered.
There is free WiFi available if you need it. I will bring some of my homegrown tools that people might find useful. Any other self-developed tools you want to share with the group would be appreciated.
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