So, today, along with my friend X, I took part in the Washington Post's Annual Post Hunt. Now, I think of myself as a pretty good thinker. I'm right brained (gooooo lefties!) and so I figured this would come pretty easily to me. FALSE.
So, it starts with a few pre-questions that have no logic to them at all. Turns out, they just give you the map coordinates of the five clue locations. Then, your job is to go to the five clue locations and figure out the answer, which is always a number. To make sure that you can find the correct number, they give you a sheet of "possible answers." Now, for those of you who took ISTEP (or any other standardized test, SATs, GREs, etc), you will be very familiar with their tactics. They give you all five correct numbers and a ton of numbers that could be correct. They either are the result of a mathematical error or a problem solving error. Which means that if you don't have the answer 100% right, you can get the wrong answer. Ugh.
And so it goes. We spent the next three hours walking all over downtown DC trying to pretend that we were smarter than we looked. We got two of five answers right and didn't even attempt the final answer, although we could have figured out step one of the final three steps.
All in all, a good time. Would be even more awesome with a team of 4 or 5 instead of just two. A definitely recommended thing to do if you're in the DC area at the right time.
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