Gen Con - August 2011!

[Nita]

I'm going to plagarize my own post from 2 years ago!
spies6.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=pub94095&action=display&thread=116

I'll be attending Gen Con in Indianapolis this summer: August 3-7. For those of you who don't know, Gen Con is a gigantic gaming convention (board games, card games (like MTG), electronic games, RPGs, LARPs, etc.). There are all sorts of events and tournaments, including - oh my heck - live mafia.

I already bought my tickets to play 4 nights of live mafia / The Werewolf Game - from 10 p.m. onward I will play game after game of mafia, accusing like crazy and acting all sneaky. I also hope to meet up with some gamers I met online to play a couple of hours of The Resistance! (an fantastic mafia variant)

So yeah, if anyone else knows they're going to attend Gen Con this summer, let me know!


Gen Con general: gencon.com/2011/indy/default.aspx

Pictures from last year:



Giant Shear Panic at the Mayfair table - "The best game ewe ever herd."




Tabletop Settlers of Catan!




Giant alien creature made out of Magic: The Gathering cards




Costume parade!




Local businesses cater to the Gen Con nerds - they'll add goblinburgers to their menus, for example, or in the case of this movie theater, show features that will attract large crowds (last year they showed "Serenity")




Speaking of Star Trek, look who showed up! Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) is pretty famous in the gamer community.







Two samples of the convention-wide puzzle - the clues are hidden around the convention center. Last year's dealt with palindromes and vampires taking over a town (the bat symbols represent the missing letters that form a palindromic phrase)


As you can see, there's a million things to see and do. Gen Con is one of my most favorite places in the known universe.

[Chance]

This puzzle is difficult. I want to say the five letter word in the second puzzle at the end of the first line of bat-symbols is "chasm", since it rhymes with "has im-", but that doesn't fit palindromically.

[Cory]

What about Candy Land.

[Nita]

For the first one I keep thinking it should begin with "Warsaw" and end with "Was Raw" but I can't get past the 12 letter word in the middle.

Tanner, you are probably on the right track with spasm. It's a palindromic PHRASE, so here's what you'd have:

For

When

A

_ _ _ _ _ ' _

_ _ _ _

s p a s m <- the M is in the exact middle of the phrase

s a p s

_ _ _ _ _

_ _ _ _ _ ,

a D.A. has im-



Words that could fit the beginning/end (5-letter palindromes):
civic – relating to a city
debed – to remove someone from a bed
deked – past tense of "to deke", meaning to deceive (especially in ice hockey)
dered – past tense of "to dere", an archaic word meaning to harm
dewed – past tense of "to dew", meaning to cover with dew
level – various common meanings
madam – a polite form of address for a woman
radar – a method of detecting objects using radio waves (acronym from Radio Detection And Ranging, so it’s self-defining too - i. e., the word "bounces back" like a radar signal)
refer – various common meanings
rotor – something that rotates
sagas – plural of saga, a long narrative story
sexes – plural of sex
solos – plural of solo
stats – contraction of statistics
tenet – a belief or principle

[Kiara]

You're thinking about that 5 letter word wrong. You don't need a 5-letter palindrome, just a word that is still a word when reversed. Like bats/stab.

[Kiara]

Oooh! I think I've figured out Sir Romeo's 12 letter word!