Total points – 100 (Q: 40X2 =80 , T- 5 X4 = 20)
- 60 (46 + 16-2) Alexander Hoh, Chong Voon Kiat, Margaret Sha
- 60 ( 52+8) Dato’ Ramesh, Liew Kok Seng, Chong Foo Siong, Lim Kong Yew
- 42 ( 34+8) Claire Chin, Wong Chiang Chuen, Goh Teck Koon, Julie Tan
Tie breaker – treasure points.
Others who wants to know your points, please drop me a note.
Woohoo! You’re in the mood to teach ‘em all a good lesson, huh, Mike?… hehehe. I suspect you’ve beaten Jayaram’s record!
By the way, Mike, regarding Treasure 5:
A type of cocktail I can extract from a juicer for example.
Would you have accepted just any type of cocktail which can be extracted from a juicer? In fact not necessarily from a juicer, even—that juicer is just as an example? I can’t see anything in the question which excludes any type of cocktail?
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Bro,
the Q is: A type of fruit cocktail….
mmm…the peril of one liner
a sympathetic ear for sure, but no points.
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Oops! Sorry, my mistake. “A type of fruit cocktail…” indeed!
Ok, any type of fruit cocktail then… hehehe
and very true… “the peril of one liner.”
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We don’t have a heartburn with this treasure.
Reading the line literally, you have on one side of the impossible equation, fruits sliced and diced, while on the other side, a concentrate. The only way to solve this treasure was to look at it laterally. That is my opinion anyway.
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How—”impossible”—2R1I?
“A type of fruit cocktail”
Must it be sliced and diced only? Isn’t a cocktail a cocktail?
Please elaborate on the impossibility.
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Refer to the below:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fruit+cocktail
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“Fruit cocktail”, when taken together on en bloc basis, refers to a mixture of sliced and diced fruits.
“Cocktail” on its own, according to my Oxford English Dictionary, can mean inter alia1 an alcoholic drink consisting of a spirit mixed with other ingredients. 2a dish consisting of a mixture of small pieces of food. 3 a mixture of different substances or factors: a cocktail of chemicals and juices etc.
Although “coctail” is commonly associated with the meaning of (1), i.e. alcoholic drink, it is not restricted to alcohol only. The meaning of “fruit cocktail” quoted by 2R1I above probably refers to the second meaning, i.e. mixture of small pieces of food (but not in juice form). However, “cocktail” covers a much larger category of mixtures in (3), and can certainly include fruit juices too.
Taking the meaning of (3) above, one can understand the need to specify the type of cocktail, e.g. nut cocktail or vitamin/drug cocktail. I can’t see why this can’t be extended to specify fruit cocktail, i.e. referring to a fruit kind of cocktail. In this respect, and taking the meaning of (3) above, the “cocktail” we’re referring to need not be sliced and diced only. It can be referring to juices too.
I must beg to differ from 2R1I’s opinion—I disagree with the impossibility of a literal interpretation of the clue.
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Out of curiosity, what was the answer to Q3.”The answer is at large board”
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Every team was given 2 pts because the answer is free
Makanan percuma ? (just a joke, don’t agree with this ans as the meaning of ‘free’ has changed ie. ‘percuma’ is not = ‘at large’)
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which means you’re at odds
p.s. the 2 pts were not given
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renroc Reply:
May 18th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
AH! That explains our missing 2 pts – the total points should be 98, not 100 (but still cannot pass lah !)
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1. Alex, I plan to use the IDEA for Q3 in future hunt.
2. Q3 2 points were not added at the results announcement but the results here is with the 2 points. Sorry for the confusion.
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HI Mike,
Will you be publishing the Question and Answer for this Hunt. I guess it was really a very difficult hunt base on the point for top3.
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Venka, click the “Q&A Bank” right at the top of this page.
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I believe this type of Hunt would kill the enthusiasm and spirit of any newbies. Hunts are supposed to be exciting and fun and not a place to undergo mental torture and stress! Imagine a regular team had also gave up towards the end to avoid further mental torture.
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Yup … Thunt supposedly be fun, with questions of varying difficulties should be distributed (easy, spot, medium, hard). Better stick to the syllabus (rules that are already known) and too much invention of new keywords make it no fun anymore. Mixture of difficulties and tie-breaks would rank the teams anyway. We are looking for excitement and fun, not mental torture like playing chess
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