Well, the second challenge didn't go quite as well as the first. A lot more people showed up this time, for which I was extremely pleased. But perhaps it was this amount of people that made the challenge so difficult.
A few people showed up late, but in my opnion I'd rather have people show up late than not at all. Only four people did not show up, so it was fairly packed. The challenge was explained: there was 5k in a safe, and the safe had a password-coded lock. The players needed to find the word and say it within 30 minutes in order to open the safe. Everything they needed to find that word was within the scrambled picture posted above. And the word they needed was scrambled in its original form, i.e. if the word was dawn, its original form was wand.
The players were fairly quick in figuring out that the picture was the Pteri Egg Wand. And about 3 minutes in they found the small 3 that was put on the fourth picture of the scrambled Pteri Egg Wand. The rest of the time was spent trying to figure out what the 3 pointed to. Their first guess was obvious, taking the third word of the Pteri Egg Wand and scrambling it to get Dawn. Since it was incorrect, they used one of the three guesses allowed.The second word guessed was negg, but since it was incorrect, they used up the second guess. At one point the correct word was suggested, but sadly the players missed the importance of it. Finally, as the last 30 seconds ticked down, the word weed was guessed. That, too was incorrect, so the players failed this challenge and no money was added to the pot.
The correct word had been fries, which was a scramble of the third word in the Pteri Egg Wand description, which was fires.
I'd like to remind the players, that my goal is to prevent you from winning each challenge, and that every challenge is going to be harder than the last.
Was the Mole there? Was the Mole working for or against the team this time? Who can say?
The next challenge will not be until Monday, as I and some of the players have a very busy weekend, but the time for the challenge will be put up tomorrow, as well as the next quiz.
r4che1 has suggested that I add the players yahoo group names to their bios, so everyone can have a ready list of names during the challenges. If anyone wants their yahoo group name to be put up, please PM me and I'll add it.
Oh, one last thing: I have some surprises in store for the game, so if you lose a challenge don't assume that it's your only chance to win money before the next execution.
*Edit* It's only fair that I have a list of people who were present, to keep things somewhat ordered.
Present:
cap
T.M.W.A.C.H.N.
Ammer
Noelle
o_0
Johnnydontgo
Kugetsu
r4che1
1lewysgal