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The City of Heroes Search the words, save the world Contest - February 1st, 2010

Avatea

By Avatea,
Posted on: 2010-02-01 11:04 in Forum Games

 

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Submissions open every Monday only from 10 AM Pacific Time (1 PM Eastern Time / 6PM GMT / 19:00 Central European Time) until 5:00 PM Pacific Time (8:00 PM Eastern Time / 1:00 AM GMT / 2:00 Central European Time) between January 11, 2010 and July 26, 2010).

 Welcome to our "Search the words, save the world" forum mission!
Super evil computer Ebil-o is definitely not pleased this week. 5 minutes is all it took a mighty fine hero to crack the code last week. As a result, this week, the Atari 800XL is getting sacrificed on the digital altar to appease Ebil-o's wrath...a little anyway.

Your opportunity to save us all is through a word block located at the bottom of this post.

The goal is to be the first one to find the words based on the theme (without being told what they are), circle them in the word block (using Paint or an equivalent program) and then list them below it.

If you are the first one to answer with the correct words, you win and only then will we be able to input the words into Ebil-o's matrix, thus delaying our impending doom. As a token of our gratitude, we'll give you the "Ebil-o FTL [date]" forum title as well as 1 (one) costume code amongst the following ones:

  • Carnival of Shadows Harlequin
  • Freakshow Tank Boss
  • Paragon Police Department Hardsuit
  • Carnival of Shadows Ring Mistress
  • Knives of Artemis Lt.
  • Praetorian Clockwork
Have fun…but not too much as each week we’re counting on you to save the world!

Rules

1) Reply in the official City of Heroes® forum (http://boards.cityofheroes.com/) thread created for each weekly " Search the words, save the world Contest” with your submission.

2) Your reply must contain a number of words or names that will be defined every time this contest is run.

3) Your reply must also contain the following statement. Please note that your submission will be disqualified if this statement is not present in your post:

If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown, and any comments that I may make about myself or this contest that I provide for advertising and promotional activities. I also certify that I am at least 13 years of age and am eligible to participate in this contest.

4) To enter the contest weekly, as of January 11, 2010, you must be 13 years of age or older. If a winner is under 18 or a minor in his or her state/province/country of residence, his or her parent or guardian must also sign any applicable releases and documentation.

5) Please note, only 1 (one) entry per forum account will be accepted. If you post a second time, you'll get disqualified, so make your one entry count!

6) Entries must conform to the Official City of Heroes Message Forum Rules and Guidelines and to the Contest Official Rules and Conditions.

7) If you win the City of Heroes® Search the words, save the world Contest one week, you are not eligible to do so again for the next 8 weeks. This is to allow other people the opportunity to win. Please be courteous to others and refrain from participating during the weeks you are not eligible to win.

Monday, February 1st, 2010 - Word Block



This week's word search is a bit different. You are looking to find 10 words that are Hero Contacts' last name*.

Please note:

1- *We are looking for contacts' last name as it appears in the game so it can be a Surname or in the case of some Asian names, the last part of their name. Example: If we take someone randomly called Park Yoona, Park is the Surname but I am looking to get Yoona as it is the name that is positioned last.

2- Bell, Ku and Lin aren't in the list. I did not input those names when I generated the word block.

3- Once a name is on your list, it can't be listed a second time (I understand Boyd appears twice for some reason).

[/B][/U]Good luck all, and don't forget that the fate of the world is in your hands!

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If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown, and any comments that I may make about myself or this contest that I provide for advertising and promotional activities. I also certify that I am at least 13 years of age and am eligible to participate in this contest.

PRIA (Julia Pria)
RUIZ (Lt. Manuel Ruiz)
BELL (Jim Bell)
LIN (Danny Lin)
BAO (Kong Bao)
TATE (Lorenzo Tate)
CHENG (Dr. Cheng)
PECK (Kyle Peck)
BOYD (Dr. Boyd)
KU (Thao Ku)

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If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown, and any comments that I may make about myself or this contest that I provide for advertising and promotional activities. I also certify that I am at least 13 years of age and am eligible to participate in this contest.




Last names:
Boyd (Listed Twice??)
Pria
Peck
Tate
Fish
Ruiz
Bell
Cheng
Lin
Bao

 

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Oh, now this is interesting...
I think you made it hard enough, now.

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You might want to point out which words should be disregarded otherwise it becomes a guessing game.

If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc.... Oh wait. Never mind.

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(Kong) Bao
(Dr.) Boyd
(Tavish) Bell
(Dr.) Cheng
(Dr.) Boyd (again)
(Manuel) Ruiz
(Danny) Lin
(Lorenzo) Tate
Cho (Ge) (following Chinese name order)
(Julia) Pria

If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown, and any comments that I may make about myself or this contest that I provide for advertising and promotional activities. I also certify that I am at least 13 years of age and am eligible to participate in this contest.

 

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Originally Posted by Avatea View Post
:S I'm sorry, we are still looking for a winner. It looks like the Word Search generator has also introduced a couple of random words and names (I find the coincidence quite disturbing actually).

And I'm definitely getting the hang of this game!
I'm not entering, so I don't have a horse in this race, but reading your rules for the contest in the first post, it looks like any entry that marks 10 words that meet the defined category--hero contacts' last names--is a valid contender. I'll stipulate that it should probably be 10 distinct words, though that isn't stated explicitly.

Since you don't provide a list of the words, and don't allow multiple entries in the contest, it strikes me as unfair to dismiss an otherwise valid entry because it doesn't match your secret list. It's not the players' fault that extra words crept into the puzzle.

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Originally Posted by Balanced View Post
I'm not entering, so I don't have a horse in this race, but reading your rules for the contest in the first post, it looks like any entry that marks 10 words that meet the defined category--hero contacts' last names--is a valid contender. I'll stipulate that it should probably be 10 distinct words, though that isn't stated explicitly.

Since you don't provide a list of the words, and don't allow multiple entries in the contest, it strikes me as unfair to dismiss an otherwise valid entry because it doesn't match your secret list. It's not the players' fault that extra words crept into the puzzle.
True, but given Black's reasoning for Cho, there's a flaw in all 3 submissions...

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Boyd
Pria
Peck
Tate
Fish
Ruiz
Bell
Cheng
Lin
Cho

If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown, and any comments that I may make about myself or this contest that I provide for advertising and promotional activities. I also certify that I am at least 13 years of age and am eligible to participate in this contest.

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Originally Posted by kidengineer View Post
True, but given Black's reasoning for Cho, there's a flaw in all 3 submissions...
Well, the category says "last name", as opposed to "surname" (or equivalent), though people tend to use the two interchangeably here. If we bring that reasoning into it, we make even more of a mess of things. I still say that the flaw is in the puzzle more than in the answers. A randomly-generated grid of reasonable size for the puzzle is often going to include extra answers when some of the potential answers are so short. Maybe the category should have been restricted to names of 4 or more letters? Of course, that assumes that none of the short names are correct.

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Originally Posted by Balanced View Post
Well, the category says "last name", as opposed to "surname" (or equivalent), though people tend to use the two interchangeably here. If we bring that reasoning into it, we make even more of a mess of things. I still say that the flaw is in the puzzle more than in the answers. A randomly-generated grid of reasonable size for the puzzle is often going to include extra answers when some of the potential answers are so short. Maybe the category should have been restricted to names of 4 or more letters? Of course, that assumes that none of the short names are correct.
OK, let me rephrase... IF Black's assertion about last name is correct, there's a problem with the first 3 submissions. Other than that, I'm agreeing with ya.

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Ok, I see this week's word block is being rather facetious. Let me clarify a couple of things:

1- We are looking for contacts' last name as it appears in the game so it can be a Surname or in the case of some Asian names, the last part of their name. Example: If we take someone randomly called Park Yoona, Park is the Surname but I am looking to get Yoona as it is the name that is positioned last.

2- Bell, Ku and Lin aren't in the list. I did not input those names when I generated the word block.

3- Once a name is on your list, it can't be listed a second time (I understand Boyd appears twice for some reason).

4- Seeing as this week's puzzle was a bit out of the ordinary, feel free to post a second time, even if you've posted in this thread already!

I hope this is making it a bit easier!

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Originally Posted by Avatea View Post
Ok, I see this week's word block is being rather facetious. Let me clarify a couple of things:

1- We are looking for contacts' last name as it appears in the game so it can be a Surname or in the case of some Asian names, the last part of their name. Example: If we take someone randomly called Park Yoona, Park is the Surname but I am looking to get Yoona as it is the name that is positioned last.

2- Bell, Fish, Ku and Lin aren't in the list. I did not input those names when I generated the word block.

3- Once a name is on your list, it can't be listed a second time (I understand Boyd appears twice for some reason).

4- Seeing as this week's puzzle was a bit out of the ordinary, feel free to post a second time, even if you've posted in this thread already!

I hope this is making it a bit easier!
Does that mean Ku is accepted? I'm curious now.

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@TonyV: They might offer you a job!

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Originally Posted by Avatea View Post
No, it isn't. Bell, Fish, Ku and Lin were not in the list of names I used to generate this word block.
Good grief, this is a tough one. I've managed 8 not counting the 4 above, "first names," duplicates and single letter "last names" (Agent G). I'm also assuming (Cho) Ge doesn't count either, since it shows up many, many times in the puzzle by sheer random chance.

 

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What if I said that I got cross-eyed and actually included Fish by mistake in the list of invalid names? Ok I did just that, Fish is actually a valid name!

Apologies all, now I'll just wait for TheOcho and Niviene to read that and make fun of me until the end of times...

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I will laugh my butt off is (Agent) G and (cho)Ge are on the list.

I'm up to 8 as well not counting those.

 

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Here's the really horrible part, no idea how to insert an image and no place to upload one.

 

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We''re doomed!

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If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown, and any comments that I may make about myself or this contest that I provide for advertising and promotional activities. I also certify that I am at least 13 years of age and am eligible to participate in this contest.

Bah, gave me a thumbnail. Is that ok?

Edit: Full size now?

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