35th Anniversary Puzzle Challenge

This three-week puzzle challenge is in honor of the 35th anniversary of Computer Science at RIT!

Thanks to all who participated - and continue to participate, the puzzles and submission will be left up for the foreseeable future - I had a fun time and I hope you did too!

If you're curious about the actual history of CS at RIT, here are a few notes. You never know when they might come in handy!

About the puzzle challenge

Register · The big grid · Submit a phrase

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
	November:	29 Puzzle 1 Puzzle 2 Puzzle 3	30 Puzzle 4 Puzzle 5	1 Puzzle 6 Puzzle 7 Puzzle 8	2 Puzzle 9 Puzzle 10	3 Puzzle 11
4 Puzzle 12 Puzzle 13 Puzzle 14	5 Puzzle 15 Puzzle 16	6 Puzzle 17 Puzzle 18	7 Puzzle 19 Puzzle 20 Puzzle 21	8 Puzzle 22 Puzzle 23 Puzzle 24	9 Puzzle 25 Puzzle 26	10 Puzzle 27
11 Puzzle 28 Puzzle 29	12 Puzzle 30 Puzzle 31	13 Puzzle 32 Puzzle 33	14 Puzzle 34 Puzzle 35	15 The grand finale! 3rd floor of Golisano 5:30-7 PM
Click on a to submit an answer. Click on to see the results for a puzzle.

Here are some stats on solution times for the various puzzles, if you're curious...

If you are interested in the final puzzle, send me an email and I will send you the relevant info about it.

Note on Puzzle 31

A note on the points allocated for puzzles 1-4 (updated 11/30 10:37PM)

Also, as some of you have figured out, when submitting answers, the Name and Password fields are case-sensitive, while the answers themselves are case-insensitive.

Current overall standings
(includes penalties for incorrect answers) Today's puzzles

1 plugh 2596

2 Eggnogsticism 2515

3 Projectyl 1851

4 figjam 1758

5 cws4173 1703

6 Trololo 1374

7 Minesweepers 1204

8 Lilch 1069

9 team_ydihylpsimysacsycsapwysap 959

10 Jakeor 952

11 Christine+Viets 862

12 WiredMentor 799

13 Percipient24 782

14 mdumont 405

15 slartibartfast 374

16 Foghats 227

17 Tahnan 146

18 Idontknowwhatnametochoose 127

19 nick+Borden 107

20 tecknicaltom 102

21 PuzzleMeCoral 101

22 Team+Guile 98

23 Geoff2 85

24 OrangeBruin 60

25 Adrian 60

26 noah 40

27 dcl9934 40

28 Todd+Etter 34

29 caltechpuzzleclub 30

30 Tammy 22

31 corey 19

32 amb8241 19

33 Andrew+Dobson 12

34 Bai 11

35 guth 10

36 garymarclevin 10

37 Mapmaker 10

Puzzle 34 Puzzle 35

1 plugh 100

2 Eggnogsticism 80

3 cws4173 60

4 Projectyl 50

5 figjam 45

6 Jakeor 40

7 Trololo 36

8 team_ydihylpsimysacsycsapwysap 32

9 Christine+Viets 29

10 Lilch 26

11 Percipient24 24

12 Minesweepers 22

1 Eggnogsticism 100

2 figjam 80

3 plugh 60

4 Projectyl 50

5 Trololo 45

6 cws4173 40

7 Christine+Viets 36

8 Jakeor 32

9 team_ydihylpsimysacsycsapwysap 29

10 Percipient24 26

11 Minesweepers 24

12 Lilch 22