Main Route
Tickets
Plaza Del Sol, Sunnyvale
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Triangles
Redwood Grove, Los Altos
Teams were given a set of triangles cut-out and mounted on foamcore.
Clue | Solution
Chess
Computer History Museum, Mountain View
Board | Clue | Solution
Rocks
Twisters Gym, Mountain View
Teams were given bags with actual rocks and had to climb routes to reach parts of the clue.
Clue | Solution
Bugged
Memorial Park, Cupertino
Teams received this clue on CD.
Clue | Solution
Plumber
Felton Covered Bridge, Felton
Board | Pieces | Pieces | Solution
Virus
Seymour Marine Discovery Center, Santa Cruz
This clue used the phone system to play Mastermind.
Wingding Crossword
Anna Jean Cummings Park, Soquel
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Lego
Seacliff Beach, Aptos
Teams were given a set of Lego pieces with a base.
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Vowels
Marini's Candies, Santa Cruz
Page 1 | Page 2 | Solution
Surveillance
Cryptic Studios, Los Gatos
Teams actually saw a screensaver with the text scrolling across the screen. Unfortunately, the second half of this clue doesn't translate to paper.
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Rhyme & Reason
SJ Municipal Rose Garden, San Jose
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Blinkenlights
Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden, Stanford
Teams were presented with a 5x5 grid of blinking lights.
Clue | Solution
Tree of Life
Terman Engineering Building, Stanford
Teams were presented with 39 items strewn across 6 hallways on 3 different floors.
Pokey Charades
Center for Integrated Systems, Stanford
Teams received a custom set of words to charade to each other.
Cube
Escondido Elementary School, Stanford
Teams were given a large metal cube with letters and paths on them, along with a baggie with magnetized letters on them as well.
Description | Solution
Scrabble
Graduate School of Business/Stanford Oval, Stanford
Teams were given Scrabble tiles along with each clue, as indicated below.
ADMORST | N | E | O | D | I | L | Y | Solution
Sound Maze
Cuesta Park, Mountain View
Teams were given an audio file with different sounds on it. Bins scattering the entire park had different directions for where to go next based on the sound.
Propagation
Charleston Park, Mountain View
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Karaoke
Microsoft Campus, Mountain View
Teams had to match notes of a song to gain access into Microsoft.
Dragon Quest
Microsoft Campus, Mountain View
Teams engaged in a Text Adventure game. (Available on the console application via the start dragonquest command.)
Walkthrough
Decoder Ring
Microsoft Campus, Mountain View
Teams were given a decoder ring with which to line up the symbols to solve this last clue.
Clue | Solution
Cold Cases
These clues were given out at one of four field offices:
Louden Nelson Community Center, Santa Cruz
Senora Emma's, San Jose
Escondido Elementary School, Stanford
Microsoft Campus, Mountain View
Hexagon
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Pick Up The Pieces
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Red vs. Blue
This puzzle was presented on a transparency.
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Th-Th-That's All Folks
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Culture
Clue 1 | Clue 2 | Clue 3 | Clue 4
Boggle
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Census
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Cryptic
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Two Time Pad
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Trotter
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Wordsearch
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Line Noise
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