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EARTHDATE: January 7, 2007

Event Reports - page 5

CRYPTOGRAMS

by Catspaws
Saturday December 30

Another year is winding down, and what a year it's been. One of the highlights has always been Cryptograms, and all the marvelous players who have played throughout the year. I thank you all for making my Saturdays fun and special for me, and look forward to 2007 and many more exciting games.

We gathered in the Pearl Teahouse for the final game of Cryptograms for 2006. We were a small crowd with Occy and Fancy watching as Captainfuzzy, Dragonslayer, Kblackdragon and Gwaptiva played. The first puzzle was a fun one, player names with seven letters, which Gwaptiva solved, while Captainfuzzy figured out five of the names and Dragonslayer deciphered three.

PLAYER NAMES WITH SEVEN LETTERS
XYHOOAC
IPHGIPR
FRQBPRC
FGNFZRO
MHXNDOG
XTGFQTB

Keeping to the theme of 'SEVEN', the second puzzle covered Commands with Seven Letters. This list proved a bit easier, with Gwaptiva, Captainfuzzy and Dragonslayer all finishing.

COMMANDS WITH SEVEN LETTERS (http://www.ibgames.net/fed2/commands/index.html)
WKGQHKX
OJODPXQ
WQHAXZK
KBONQIK
HKXRQAI
ZAGGKZD

Captainfuzzy finished the next puzzle ahead of Gwaptiva, making me proud. Dragonslayer found four of the six commodities on the list.

COMMODITIES WITH SEVEN LETTERS
UDHBKVF
GHAHKVF
BYQKATF
VQPINVF
JHKOIEF
GVNENGF

Things turned around for the erstwhile Captainfuzzy on the systems puzzle, with his only solving 2 on the list, while Gwaptiva and Dragonslayer solved the complete list.

SYSTEM NAMES WITH SEVEN LETTERS
ZIEUTMK
ECRVACX
RXDRLTR
PUTVACX
LXHURML
QFPVTDC

This gave Gwappie a comfortable lead going into the final puzzle, which he solved ahead of Captainfuzzy and Dragonslayer. In honor of the last Cryptogram game of the year, Captainfuzzy was also awarded one of my special reproducing slithy toves.

PLANET NAMES WITH SEVEN LETTERS
XRSILBI
JIKIHNI
IKLIBNI
CNFJOQS
SGBARBU
BGFJKQB

Join me each Saturday at 4.00pm for Cryptograms, the game that gives your brain a workout (who wants a flabby brain?). And may you all have a happy and prosperous new year.


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