+dflye Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Congratulations solvers! I am still waiting for my coin so I can log in!! arghhh... I'll second both statements!! Quote Link to comment
+OwlCacher Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Please keep all conundrumcoin discussions in the conundrumcoin thread. If you are not sure why you are getting an answer wrong, you may use the "contact us" box and one of us will check. Emailing previous solvers works as well. This is just to keep answers from being given away here. P.S. One of us will get to answering the recent flood of emails sometime today, I promise. Quote Link to comment
+Eartha Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Merged a second thread on the same coin with the original thread. Quote Link to comment
+rrglcag Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Check out this link on the second page for part of your answer. Click on 'Leaderboard' to see those who have solved. I'll send you a hint for puzzle #2. http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=187286 Help my wife VaSaturn bought me this coin knowing I am addicted to puzzles except I'm stuck on Puzzle #14. Can someone give me a hint please? Quote Link to comment
+LibertyBelle Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 This is one of the coolest coins I have ever seen. The puzzles leading up to the solved coin are amazing too. Thanks so much for doing this coin. I am now just waiting for the paypal invoice so we can get out "solved" coins Thanks again!! LibertyBelle Quote Link to comment
+derschlings Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 ...BRAIN-FRY... Thank goodness for intelligent sons! There is no way this ol' plumber would have been able to solve some of these without the help of picAtune... THANKS SON! Quote Link to comment
+Vanelle Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 The coin CAME TODAY!! Had it hand this evening after work and went straight to puzzling. Had a blast with this challenge. Great idea and clever development. Thank you. Quote Link to comment
+OwlCacher Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 This is one of the coolest coins I have ever seen. The puzzles leading up to the solved coin are amazing too. Thanks so much for doing this coin. I am now just waiting for the paypal invoice so we can get out "solved" coins Thanks again!! LibertyBelle We will start senging out invoices in a week or two when we have the coins in hand. Quote Link to comment
+dflye Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Woo hoo, got the coin today! Now I'm stuck on the 14th puzzle, and had no luck getting a hint with the hint-o-matic button. The whole 1 in 12 odds is killing me! Quote Link to comment
+desert georangers Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 This was quite a challenge! Thank you. Will the invoice for the shipping fee be mailed to us snail mail? or paypal invoice to our e-mail? Quote Link to comment
+OwlCacher Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 This was quite a challenge! Thank you. Will the invoice for the shipping fee be mailed to us snail mail? or paypal invoice to our e-mail? The invoice will be e-mailed to you. Quote Link to comment
+OwlCacher Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 I am happy to announce the 25 recipients of the solved coins! 1. coreynjoey 2. tsunrisebey 3. jimbexleyspeed 4. Sue-Cat 5. LowGrey 6. LibertyBelle 7. Clamm 8. Doobies 9. Scrabblehounds 10. Bluemotmot 11. joetony 12. pacholik 13. davideos 14. derschlings 15. desert georangers 16. Jake- Team AI 17. gabi 18. Team Turtle-Ham 19. celt45 20. Vanelle 21. Cherry Spawn 22. thefoolandhisqueen 23. dflye 24. JJG10101 25. rrglcag Some stats: 51 people signed up for the challenge 38 of them had solved at least 10 puzzles It seems that the most difficult puzzle was #14. which required you to decipher a message located on the back of the coin. It could be solved easily with an easy-to-find online tool. Unfortunately the website did not close after the 25th solver as planned, but if you are to finish the puzzles now, know that no more coins will be given away (as no more were minted). For those who were stuck on a particular puzzle, the solutions will be posted in a week or two as well. Thanks for playing everyone! Quote Link to comment
+tsunrisebey Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 I am happy to announce the 25 recipients of the solved coins! 1. coreynjoey 2. tsunrisebey 3. jimbexleyspeed 4. Sue-Cat 5. LowGrey 6. LibertyBelle 7. Clamm 8. Doobies 9. Scrabblehounds 10. Bluemotmot 11. joetony 12. pacholik 13. davideos 14. derschlings 15. desert georangers 16. Jake- Team AI 17. gabi 18. Team Turtle-Ham 19. celt45 20. Vanelle 21. Cherry Spawn 22. thefoolandhisqueen 23. dflye 24. JJG10101 25. rrglcag Some stats: 51 people signed up for the challenge 38 of them had solved at least 10 puzzles It seems that the most difficult puzzle was #14. which required you to decipher a message located on the back of the coin. It could be solved easily with an easy-to-find online tool. Unfortunately the website did not close after the 25th solver as planned, but if you are to finish the puzzles now, know that no more coins will be given away (as no more were minted). For those who were stuck on a particular puzzle, the solutions will be posted in a week or two as well. Thanks for playing everyone! This was a great game to play and I appreciate all the effort that went into it, truly I do. I know what a large undertaking this must have been. Kudos to you two young gentlemen for putting this together. However I would like to make a couple of comments in general. I would leave the puzzles open for a bit longer than 1 to 2 weeks. I'm going to assume that there are overseas customers who have yet to receive their coins and they may need more time. This also leads me to another thought, I know this was a learning experience for all and I don't mean to be critical, so please take this as just an sincere suggestion: I think it may have been most fair to wait until all people had their coins because alot of people got their coins late or are still waiting on them, so they had very little chance of winning a 'solved' coin or another option (and beats me how you do it) was to have each puzzle timed, so that no matter when you got your coin, you were judged on a time basis and not who got to do the puzzles first. Just a thought if you both venture into another game coin. Like I said, I had a lot of fun in a warped math kind of way and I really do appreciate all the effort you put into this! Thank you ~tsun Quote Link to comment
dimkasmir Posted June 25, 2008 Author Share Posted June 25, 2008 I have now temporarily closed the site but will reopen it after 4th of July so that anyone will be able to sign up to try the puzzles just for fun. Thanks everyone for playing and for making our first coin project a pleasant experience. Quote Link to comment
+coreynjoey Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 I am happy to announce the 25 recipients of the solved coins! 1. coreynjoey 2. tsunrisebey 3. jimbexleyspeed 4. Sue-Cat 5. LowGrey 6. LibertyBelle 7. Clamm 8. Doobies 9. Scrabblehounds 10. Bluemotmot 11. joetony 12. pacholik 13. davideos 14. derschlings 15. desert georangers 16. Jake- Team AI 17. gabi 18. Team Turtle-Ham 19. celt45 20. Vanelle 21. Cherry Spawn 22. thefoolandhisqueen 23. dflye 24. JJG10101 25. rrglcag Some stats: 51 people signed up for the challenge 38 of them had solved at least 10 puzzles It seems that the most difficult puzzle was #14. which required you to decipher a message located on the back of the coin. It could be solved easily with an easy-to-find online tool. Unfortunately the website did not close after the 25th solver as planned, but if you are to finish the puzzles now, know that no more coins will be given away (as no more were minted). For those who were stuck on a particular puzzle, the solutions will be posted in a week or two as well. Thanks for playing everyone! This was a great game to play and I appreciate all the effort that went into it, truly I do. I know what a large undertaking this must have been. Kudos to you two young gentlemen for putting this together. However I would like to make a couple of comments in general. I would leave the puzzles open for a bit longer than 1 to 2 weeks. I'm going to assume that there are overseas customers who have yet to receive their coins and they may need more time. This also leads me to another thought, I know this was a learning experience for all and I don't mean to be critical, so please take this as just an sincere suggestion: I think it may have been most fair to wait until all people had their coins because alot of people got their coins late or are still waiting on them, so they had very little chance of winning a 'solved' coin or another option (and beats me how you do it) was to have each puzzle timed, so that no matter when you got your coin, you were judged on a time basis and not who got to do the puzzles first. Just a thought if you both venture into another game coin. Like I said, I had a lot of fun in a warped math kind of way and I really do appreciate all the effort you put into this! Thank you ~tsun I'd have to agree with tsun..even though if we had started at the same time as everyone else, we probably wouldn't be on the list Quote Link to comment
dimkasmir Posted June 25, 2008 Author Share Posted June 25, 2008 I am happy to announce the 25 recipients of the solved coins! 1. coreynjoey 2. tsunrisebey 3. jimbexleyspeed 4. Sue-Cat 5. LowGrey 6. LibertyBelle 7. Clamm 8. Doobies 9. Scrabblehounds 10. Bluemotmot 11. joetony 12. pacholik 13. davideos 14. derschlings 15. desert georangers 16. Jake- Team AI 17. gabi 18. Team Turtle-Ham 19. celt45 20. Vanelle 21. Cherry Spawn 22. thefoolandhisqueen 23. dflye 24. JJG10101 25. rrglcag Some stats: 51 people signed up for the challenge 38 of them had solved at least 10 puzzles It seems that the most difficult puzzle was #14. which required you to decipher a message located on the back of the coin. It could be solved easily with an easy-to-find online tool. Unfortunately the website did not close after the 25th solver as planned, but if you are to finish the puzzles now, know that no more coins will be given away (as no more were minted). For those who were stuck on a particular puzzle, the solutions will be posted in a week or two as well. Thanks for playing everyone! This was a great game to play and I appreciate all the effort that went into it, truly I do. I know what a large undertaking this must have been. Kudos to you two young gentlemen for putting this together. However I would like to make a couple of comments in general. I would leave the puzzles open for a bit longer than 1 to 2 weeks. I'm going to assume that there are overseas customers who have yet to receive their coins and they may need more time. This also leads me to another thought, I know this was a learning experience for all and I don't mean to be critical, so please take this as just an sincere suggestion: I think it may have been most fair to wait until all people had their coins because alot of people got their coins late or are still waiting on them, so they had very little chance of winning a 'solved' coin or another option (and beats me how you do it) was to have each puzzle timed, so that no matter when you got your coin, you were judged on a time basis and not who got to do the puzzles first. Just a thought if you both venture into another game coin. Like I said, I had a lot of fun in a warped math kind of way and I really do appreciate all the effort you put into this! Thank you ~tsun I'd have to agree with tsun..even though if we had started at the same time as everyone else, we probably wouldn't be on the list We now realize that opening the site after the coin went on sale would have been a smarter idea. However, the ConundrumCoin was our first project of the sort and geocoin altogether. If we ever do another coin with a similar idea, we will definitely do it this way. Quote Link to comment
+Crowesfeat30 Posted June 26, 2008 Share Posted June 26, 2008 (edited) I am happy to announce the 25 recipients of the solved coins!1. coreynjoey 2. tsunrisebey 3. jimbexleyspeed 4. Sue-Cat 5. LowGrey 6. LibertyBelle 7. Clamm 8. Doobies 9. Scrabblehounds 10. Bluemotmot 11. joetony 12. pacholik 13. davideos 14. derschlings 15. desert georangers 16. Jake- Team AI 17. gabi 18. Team Turtle-Ham 19. celt45 20. Vanelle 21. Cherry Spawn 22. thefoolandhisqueen 23. dflye 24. JJG10101 25. rrglcag Some stats: 51 people signed up for the challenge 38 of them had solved at least 10 puzzles It seems that the most difficult puzzle was #14. which required you to decipher a message located on the back of the coin. It could be solved easily with an easy-to-find online tool. Unfortunately the website did not close after the 25th solver as planned, but if you are to finish the puzzles now, know that no more coins will be given away (as no more were minted). For those who were stuck on a particular puzzle, the solutions will be posted in a week or two as well. Thanks for playing everyone! I guess I misunderstood what was going on with the "Solved" coin. I thought I could take my sweet ol' time solving the puzzles; that if one solved them all one would get a "Solved" coin. I was not aware of a limit on how many were made. Oh well. Congrats to all the winners. CF30 Edited June 26, 2008 by Crowesfeat30 Quote Link to comment
Tooeygeotrashed Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 Mmmm just got my coins and eargerly went to The Conundrum Coin website only to see a list of completionists Not only am I unable to be in the running to win a solved coin, I can't even access the puzzles. Most disappointing. Congrats to the winners though, and also congrats to the organisers for putting the whole project together, you might want to reconsider timings/arrangements for completing puzzles if you do a similar project in the future. Anyone want a spare Conundrum coin? Quote Link to comment
+OwlCacher Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 Mmmm just got my coins and eargerly went to The Conundrum Coin website only to see a list of completionists Not only am I unable to be in the running to win a solved coin, I can't even access the puzzles. Most disappointing. Congrats to the winners though, and also congrats to the organisers for putting the whole project together, you might want to reconsider timings/arrangements for completing puzzles if you do a similar project in the future. Anyone want a spare Conundrum coin? I am sorry it did not work out, and you will be able to see the puzzles in 1-2 weeks. We are considering doing something like this again, hopefull it will turn out better. Quote Link to comment
dimkasmir Posted June 30, 2008 Author Share Posted June 30, 2008 I have received the remade LE ConundrumCoins. This time they're all good! I am currently sending out invoices for the shipping fee to the winners. Quote Link to comment
+ThirstyMick Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 Got my coins a couple of days ago... very nicely done, but WHOA, thats a teeny tiny tracking number ...to be honest these 25 year old eyes couldn't tell there were numbers even engraved, but my boyfriend says he could see em ..glad for the sticker but I don't think these will become travelers ! Still, a nice addition to my collection, thanks Quote Link to comment
dimkasmir Posted July 2, 2008 Author Share Posted July 2, 2008 I have just finished packaging all the LE's and will ship them out tomorrow to those who have paid for the shipping already which is almost everyone. Quote Link to comment
Tooeygeotrashed Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 Mmmm just got my coins and eargerly went to The Conundrum Coin website only to see a list of completionists Not only am I unable to be in the running to win a solved coin, I can't even access the puzzles. Most disappointing. Congrats to the winners though, and also congrats to the organisers for putting the whole project together, you might want to reconsider timings/arrangements for completing puzzles if you do a similar project in the future. Anyone want a spare Conundrum coin? I am sorry it did not work out, and you will be able to see the puzzles in 1-2 weeks. We are considering doing something like this again, hopefull it will turn out better. Thanks for the reply OwlCacher - however without the incentive I doubt I will be able to energise the grey matter enough to solve the puzzles. But I will keep a look out for your next project - just bear in mind what happened this time and see if you can come up with a work around - you could ask for confirmation of receipt by participants, mail overseas buyers first and hold back the US ones, then when everyone has the coin in hand open up the puzzle pages - or something ?!? Quote Link to comment
+OwlCacher Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 For those who missed out, there are now additional coins avaliable. The copper sold out (quicker than the additional phone coins ) but the silver is still avaliable. I am currently writing solutions for the site. If you have any solutions that you think are very quick and effective than the solutions you think we were expecting, go ahead and send them in, and if we like them we may put them up. Quote Link to comment
dimkasmir Posted July 7, 2008 Author Share Posted July 7, 2008 Most winners should be getting their SOLVED coin today or tomorrow. We will have the site reopened at no later than tomorrow as well. Quote Link to comment
+dflye Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 Received mine over the weekend, somehow I totally missed the fact that the LEs for the winners would have "solved" stamped on them in bright red! With that complete lack of even the most basic observation skills, amazing I finished all the puzzles at all, let alone in time to be a winner!! Even cooler, the coin is individually stamped with my rank in the standings and included a nifty personalized note!! Quote Link to comment
+Vanelle Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 I received my SOLVED coin today. I love it. Thanks! Quote Link to comment
+BlueMotmot Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 My solved coin came - I will treasure it!! Thank you very very much! I hope you do another... Quote Link to comment
+coreynjoey Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 We got our Solved coin today, w00t! Thanks for the puzzles and the coin! Quote Link to comment
dimkasmir Posted July 10, 2008 Author Share Posted July 10, 2008 The site is back up! Now anyone who owns, or even finds a ConundrumCoin can register to solve the puzzles. Solutions are also available. Winners will be featured on the leaderboard and will receive a customized printable certificate. Quote Link to comment
+Sparticus06 Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 (edited) This is very cool. I got my Silver coin and started to solve the puzzles. Man some are hard. I will be contacting about 1 puzzle that I am on now....to me it is wrong the way it is set up...may need an explanation. Still I am having fun tryin to solve the puzzles. Also, on the front of the coin...is all the letters around the edge a puzzle too? If so...WOW! Edited July 11, 2008 by Sparticus06 Quote Link to comment
+tom4props Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 Just ordered one of each... copper & silver! My two coins arrived on June 20th, while I was out of town camping and caching in the Eastern Sierras, and when I returned home sometime in July, there was a huge pile of coin packets waiting for me, but I quickly got way to busy to give much attention to them. Believe it or not, I just opened up my packet today! Congratulations to the 25 Puzzle Solvers! Quote Link to comment
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