Allison Wonderland 2009 24-hour hunt

I answered the first one by inserting my answer into the URL, but I got "page not found". Did I not answer correctly. I know I have the right *idea* for the answer (category), but perhaps need to word it differently (individual names) to get to the page? Or should the page tell me I have the wrong/right answer? If I need the individual names, do I just need last names? Do they need to be in the order of the photos shown?

Thanks!

I have had the same issue, Eags.

I have listed with the category only, names in order, names with state abbreviations in order.

What are we doing wrong, Allison?

You have the wrong answer is the problem. It's a bit trickier than that.

The stars at the top of the page figure into the puzzle as well.

I just updated the page with some more information on how to answer.

Did you guys really identify all 7 people already?

I've got the seven people, tried to plug in their states in order of statehood, then alphabetical order. I must be missing something.

You're getting closer. But don't forget the stars.

I'm off for a while but will be back later tonight. Have fun hunting.

Grrr I'm getting frustrated... I'm trying alphabetically and the order in which the states were admitted into the union, and neither work.

Got the first one. The second one will be tough for me, as I don't do celebrity face recognition very well. Some of them are coming to me, though - I printed it out and glance at it from time to time and a name will sometimes come to me. Fun clues, AW. I don't know why I'm doing this - I probably won't even be there in September!

I need a hint... :angry:

Don't ignore the stars!

Should we post any links that may be handy? Or answers that don't work?

Sure if you want to work as a group. Maybe not if people want to try and solve it on their own. Maybe even work as teams and each team can have their own invite only thread?

I have quite a list of answers that don't work. :chagrin:

I'm on the 2nd one - some of the images of the celebrities are hard to make out who they are. Do we need to know the names of ALL of them?

I could PM you, AW if you want to discuss particular faces... I've got all but 6 of them, and a 'maybe' on one...the redhead in the upper right corner is hard to make out recognizable details of her face - have absolutely no idea who that is.

I'm on the second one too.

Missing about 9 and a question mark behind two more.

So the first one proved answerable after all then? :grin:

As for the second one you may not need to figure out all of them if you get the general pattern. Or show them to friends and get more people involved!

Allison - it amazes me how you come up with these.

I was able to find a better picture of the one in the top right and I've uploaded it though you may need to refresh the page.

I've been working on the second one since I solved the first one. It is a bugger. What do you mean by "pattern" AW? They seem to be not recent photos. Is this something all 20 people have in common? Perhaps one related to the next, and that one to the one after them, etc? Hard to know if I have the right answer but just not the exact wording. For example if all have done something very similar, the answer could be "allhavedoneit" or "alldidit" - know what I mean - is it something where the hitting on the exact wording will be a fluke?

No, if you solve it, you will know the exact wording. It helps to refer to the title on the page.

I should be in bed.

I am now going to bed.

Thanks for the updated photo.

Goodnight and SCDs

Solved the first one. My first answer was correct, I must have spelled it wrong. I should have finished this hours ago. :angry:

I'm still trying to find breaks in the #2 pattern... that's what is driving me nuts right now.

Well, I got plenty of time to waste on this tomorrow at work, so have fun, everybody!

You may just have to find your own breaks.

speaking of which...yours is coming up in a about 3 days..

now i'm just confused...last nite i looked at the starts...the order has change on me...

not sure I understand, Kitch - what?

Sequence of the movie stars in Puzzle 2 is the same - AW just changed a poor photo of one of the celebs for a clearer one. One of those things - you stare too long you can't tell the forest because of the trees.

Are you talking about the stars on Puzzle 1? They're the same.

Hey, AW - Puzzle 2 - the chick in the 2nd row that looks like she's right out of the 80's - 2nd from left. I swear she was on Falcon Crest or something like that, but I cannot find a matching photo anywhere. Can you confirm?

I swear last nite the numbering for the stars a was

21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 24, 27

or something like

21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 24, 27

maybe i was drunk

Hell, counting to FIFTEEN gets tough if you're under the affluence of inkahol, much less Fifty.

The thing that is bugging me about the second puzzle in AW's pre-hunt contest is that the photos seem pretty obscure, in terms of finding the exact same photo online. A few I have found the exact photos. I numbered the photos 1-20 for ease of discussion and have found #4, 10 and 11. But even on the others I am sure of the identity, when I look at google images, or photos from the IMDB website, etc., I can't find that exact photo of the person. That is not the case on the first puzzle - they were commonly used photos you would see again and again on various websites.

Also the photos seem to be from awhile back, at least most of them.

I am amazed that even my friends who are pretty knowledgeable about celebrities, are having a difficult time due to the obscurity of the photos.

Any thoughts as to whether this plays into the answer in any way?

I'm still hunting for patterns, but for a change of pace we're actually WORKING at work today - on the stuff I get paid to do! Problem is, it all has to be done RUSH RUSH RUSH in order to get shipped on time.

I'm probably going to abstain from puzzling until later tonight - just remember, Eags - it's always harder to see the forest because of the trees. AW's puzzles from last years' hunts were never as complicated as they seem - once you figure out the cipher.

(I'm still hunting for names from the Puzzle 2 top row photos - I've got the two lower rows named.)

If the photos seem obscure, it's probably only because I used Yahoo instead of Google. I mostly went for the picture that I thought was most identifiable and yet about the right size. Generally I didn't have to search very deep for them. As for being from a while back, I went more for pictures of people in their heyday as opposed to their most current picture.

As for the "80's girl", she was indeed on an evening 80's soap opera, though not Falcon Crest.

And to reply to Kitch, the numbers of the stars are in the same order. they go straight through from 1 to 50. However, the font turned out a little funny and sometimes numbers look like other numbers.

http://gallery.yahoo.com/apps/15750

does this work??

<<-----handicappable

It would be interesting to see if that works on this.

Probably not going to be very accurate for these lower-resolution photographs. May get some hits on a couple, but my guess is that a few pixels off means 'recognizing' about 300-400 people of the wrong face type.

Got all but two names now.

What are you missing? #1 and #3?

Actually #1 and #2 - I think #1 is on CBS, but...

It looks like someone has made it to the third level.

Dammit AW - I KNOW that is the code - I just can't figure out the breaks! Can you give me a hint how many letters?

isn't one and three the same girl??

those blondes all lookalike to me...

Figuring out the breaks is all part of the puzzle. I feel confident though if you try different possibilities, you'll end up with only one reasonable answer.