Slick Willie
From BANG
- Up to Bang 14 Hail to the BANG. Back to Appliance Sale. Forward to Monopoly.
"Science on a Roll" is a 16-foot-tall, 12-foot long, audiokinetic sculpture by George Rhoads outside the Tech Museum.
Teams were given 22 pieces that they had to assemble into a conceptual "flowchart" of the ball movement in the machine:
After assembling the flowchart, they had to flip it over to get the message (which was written diagonally)
B
R A
N D N
A M E F
O R T H E
P E T R O L
E U M J E L L
Y L U B R I C
A N T E A T E
N D A I L Y
B Y I T S
D I S C
O V E
R E
R
The answer is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaseline [VASELINE].
- the puzzle source This PDF file makes four copies of the puzzle.
- the hint sheet
- flowchart The flowchart we created after a few scouting expeditions.
- box diagram Plan before we added artwork. It involved creating a flowchart and dragging boxes around and around each other until we had a rectangular grid. Originally we wanted all the pieces to be the same size, but that turned out to be impossible.
- jigsaw how we eventually cut out the pieces. Note that during the playest, we had *all* the pieces cut out separately -- it had more than 50 pieces. The playtest teams (understandably) took a very long time to solve that version!
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Arrival times
- 8:05 Blood & Bones
- 8:15 Coed Astronomy
- 8:16 Talkin' 'Eds
- 8:29 Continental Breakfast
- 8:36 Sleep Train
- 8:37 Judean Peoples' Front
- 8:39 Tag and Release
- 8:40 Consumer Recreation Services
- 8:44 Unibangers
- 8:53 Desert Taxi
- 8:58 Golden Golems
- 9:01 Everybody Loves Nutella
- 9:03 Longshots
- 9:05 Here Be Dragons
- 9:09 The Platonic Solids
- 9:15 We're Doomed
- 9:23 Team Snout
- 9:26 Kittens Kittens Kittens
- 9:27 Twainsters
- 9:32 Folsom Furlough
- 9:33 Arthur! Arthur!
- 9:37 The Stonecutters
