Ooh, I like Mynonym. Second the motion.Perhaps it's too early to talk about this, but what the heck. I know that Palindrome plays for fun, with winning secondary to that, but there are a lot of us who would dearly like to win. Looking back on last year, I think it's easy to pinpoint the main reason we weren't in the running at the end: we had almost no one working the Friday night shift, which gave Bombers and Codex (who certainly did) a huge advantage over us.
I remember coming back to the room early Saturday morning and there were only two people in the room, and they'd been struggling over a puzzle for several hours. I was able to quickly solve two puzzles -- they'd started them and just needed a fresh pair of eyes, so it's not like I did anything special. If we'd had a decent-sized group of people working throughout the night, I think we'd have made a lot more progress.
So my suggestion is that ten or so people volunteer to take that shift. Obviously everyone should be around for the start of the hunt -- that's an exciting time, it's when the theme is revealed, etc. But if we had 10 people who were willing to go to bed at 6 PM or so and come back around 1 or 2 AM, that would really help things. (I know everyone thinks "Oh, I can stay up the whole time if I have to" -- but invariably people crash, and if they're all doing it at the same time, that's problematic.) And it's not like we need 35 people in the room during the day.
I'll be the first to volunteer for the night shift -- anyone willing to join me?
-- Trip Jenny Gutbezahl wrote:
Hi all,Is it about time to start thinking about our team name for this year? Some folks jokingly suggested that with the influx of Acronymiacs, we might want to create a palindromic acronym (or an acronymic palindrome). In the spirt, but not the letter of that, I suggest "Mynonym," which would indicate that our team is named after being named a rather aggressive bird that's good at imitating others.Hathor/Jenny ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Palindrome mailing list Palindrome cosmos phy tufts edu https://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/mailman/listinfo/palindrome