Snap 21 this weekend- beautiful day, and well constructed high quality puzzles.  Major props to bruce + co and the burninators.  The following is mostly my notes to walk through the images and puzzles to aid my memory. :-)

Before the opening I learned that no part of RTC opens before 9:00.  They must have taken my work schedule to heart...

first puzzle – word transformations – setting a new silly hat record for least time totally rat-holing on the first puzzle!

Puzzle 2 – out in the open with math, mostly solved backwards, but not too bad.

3 – A scenic hike through the biking trails (with several cyclists trying to run us over) we discover:
  A. Someone other than C. Montgomery Burns has heard of Catsup, and
  B. City Hall is not where we thought it was.

4 – Elements and hard trivia.  I usually get by by knowing what order they appear in, but this required knowing properties-  Un-phased (groan) we solved it as a crossword.

 we made a good parade of hats through the Redmond business district.

5 – The letter 21. Set of constrained crossword clues, with matching letter beads for necklace making.  I spent most of my time ordering the letters into piles.

6 & 7 – a crossword + cut out at the skate park.  The cut out had a lot of good aha moments as we clarified what we were building, and before the meta was probably my favorite of the day.

8 – blackjack – getting enough clues to solve the puzzle by winning hands, then we skate by as half our team took french in high school.  huzzah!

9 – Drinking age.  Fun jumbled wordsearch + crossword.  Makes me look forward to a good bit of monastic polo.

10 – meta – reasonable to follow, and also a fun puzzle in its own right, even if I refused to take the tiny pixel sized pieces out of the bag. There may have eventually been wind.

Then a wrap up with sunshine and snacks.

also, reflective sunglasses.