Next week's puzzle will be a different type again - Pick it please
Corrections/Errata
Hints
Reserved for what might come.
Solutions
Part 1 - 1-5: Washington, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Tokyo, Haifa
Part 1 - 6-10: Athens, Yerevan, Philadelphia, San Diego, Barcelona
Part 1 - 11-15: Bucharest, Mexico City, Ulan Bataar (or 4 variant spellings), Stockholm, Taipei
Part 2 - 1-5: Boston, Montreal, Frankfurt, Glasgow, Beijing
Part 2 - 6-10: Pyongyang, Hong Kong, Moscow, Warsaw, Tashkent
Part 2 - 11-15: Prague, London, Buffalo, New York, Auckland
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This is my twenty-fourth(or possibly twenty-fifth) puzzle of 2016 after:
23rd Gooooaaaaaallllllll!
22nd A Strangely Attractive Puzzle
21st Mikalye's Riddle Dungeon which is running simultaneously with this puzzle
20th Alphablocks
19th A Collection of Classy Characters
18th World Series
17th Seeing Things from Every Angler
16th Shaggy Dogs
15th Just Follow Directions
14th A Short Excerpt from a Longer Work
13th Listen Up
12th Analogy Chains
11th Phoney Numbers
10th Mommy, Where do I come from?
9th Let me make myself perfectly clear
8th Simple addition
7th A list of words
6th As Easy as ABC
5th Movie Stargazing
4th Queens Play
3rd Keep Your Distance
2nd Hunting Lie and Hoe
1st Mixed Bag - [Not linked and now closed as I will reuse part of this in a later puzzle]
0th History of Computer Role-Playing Games
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Mikalye, I hope you know by now, that I adore you and in particular your puzzle creating skills, but I have to admit, that you chose the wrong game for this puzzly sort of quiz ; )
The right price would, of course, have been Mini Metro!
And it's funny, that I, without any search or looking longer than a few seconds on this, recognised four of them ;D And only one of those I visited/used myself already. Another one I 'visited' during a board game ; )
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I agree. Mini Metro was absolutely my first choice, but I did not have a spare copy, and did not feel like buying another full-price to give away (which I did do for the Riddle Dungeon) for reasons that became clear when you unlocked that treasure). But I did have a spare copy of Chris Sawyer's Locomotion to give away and it is a very fine game. I am of course a huge fan of any of Chris Sawyer's games (with the original Rollercoaster Tycoon games being his magnum opus).
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Naturally, the first one I got was the one I got lost in on vacation once :D
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Whoa, I'm second/third on an ITH puzzle, I need to make a screenshot ;D
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It does look like I need to be working on math puzzles this week. Hmmmm.......
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Greetings all. Well the the wordplay madness that is Mikalye's Riddle Dungeon is going on simultaneously with this one, and we are going well now. As I type this we have been getting one new grand champion (who has solved all that is in the dungeon) every day now for several days in a row, so I am happy. Now for the last two weeks, I have provided logic problems for the weekly puzzle, one abstract (A Strangely Attractive Puzzle), and one football themed (Gooooaaaaaallllllll!). When I sat down to put together this weeks, I was stymied. I didn't really want to put in a third logic problem on the trot, but I thought that wordplay was fully covered by the Riddle dungeon. So I decided that it has been about six months since I have written a quiz, so here one is. It is a puzzly sort of a quiz but a quiz nonetheless. I hope you enjoy it. It can be found in two parts, part one and part two.
The prize this week is Chris Sawyer's Locomotion.
For the first time, I am varying the finish time. We jump from 11pm GMT to 11:59pm GMT, so you get an extra hour.
To try to not be quite so stymied next week, I decided that for the first time in six months or so (since the 3rd 2016 puzzle), I should poll people on what they would want to see next week. I remain on target to hit 52 puzzles this year and fulfill my New Year's Resolution.
Enjoy.
Mikalye
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