If nothing else, that last puzzle showed us there are many ways to make a map.
There's the tree-branching method (from Karina):
- Pros: gets me excited about March Madness.
- Cons: requires a lot of tape.
The MS Excel method (from Fanerman):
- Pros: very organized and easy to correct errors
- Cons: no visual representation of doors between rooms
And again, the Dusty Baker method (from Dusty Baker):
- Pros: includes Norwegian phrasebook and invaluable compass
- Cons: none I can think of
And finally, here's SoSG Sax's:
You've seen the various styles. Now, who would you most want to be lost in a hedgemaze with?
Actually, don't answer that.
In related news, UBragg has selected the Furcal Bobblehead as his prize, which means you can look forward to a puzzle from Josh S sometime next season. Email us your mailing address UBragg and we'll get the b-head out to you.
26 comments:
As a geographer in the map making profession, these maps make me smile and weep at the same time.
I think Karina's is meant to be three dimensional! if you turn the middle piece crossways, it expands into some kind of magical tower
Wait, you're a geographer Wicks? Let's see your map!
@FB That little groove at the end looks like a perfect place for the Eye of Sauron.
I love fanerman's "die" notations.
I used the Excel format map, but didn't resize the cells.
I think I'd want to be lost in the hedgemaze with Dusty Baker and his map. Knowing how to say "Where can I get a beer?" in Norwegian can be very useful.
Hey why am I teal in Fanerman's map?!
Sadly I didn't have time during the workday to make a map EK. If I would have though, I'm sure it would have been a work of art!
Sorry to be a pain, but will you guys be posting a SWGT for the Rox/Phils and Yanks/Twins or would that dilute our focus too much?
I'm pulling for the Rox, oddly enough. (NL West represent!) Now that they're not breathing down our necks, I can appreciate their accomplishment and root for them over the EEEVIL Phils.
I want Fanerman.
His organizational skills and my devil may care attitude will get us to our destination.
For the life of me I can't remember why you're teal, Fred's Brim.
Phiwwies not looking confident with the leather so far.
Fanerman's spreadsheet is awesome. Only thing I would have added, as icing on the cake, is a mouseover function that reveals each cell owner's avatar.
And I never pictured FB as a teal. You're so much more of a Fall, not a Spring.
Ah, so the Rox announcers have cutesy names for the players ala the Angels. Hawper?
Wicks,
You're a cartographer? I want to be like you when I grow up!
He was safe by a mile!!!
"He was safe by a mile!!!"
Baseball gods balanced out that catch call from Saturday.
Holy shit! The game is on?
BTW, couldn't get over the Twinkie announcers calling Ron Gardenhire, "Gardy."
@ Josh-
Natural order is restored now that those two calls cancel each other. The Guss is safe...for now.
RB-
Yeah, the "Gardy" bit is just plain lame. Not only is it cheesy, but it's totally unimaginative. Can you imagine Vinny calling Joe Torre "Joey" or "Joe-Joe" ?
Joey Jo-Jo Junior Shabbadoo?
It's all part of the "Small Market" charm, I guess.
Vin could call Torre, "Big Toe."
BTW, karina's map failed because she did not have my room included.
FAIL!
APODACA.
I also want to be like Wicks when i grow up!
I know my map sucks but it was intended to proportionate every tidbit of info, it's more like an infographic, though mine doesn't have the Norwegian touch of Dusty's map.
Fanerman, i like the order of your map. However, i like Sax's map the best, you have to respect anyone who uses golden proportion, grids and primary colors ;)
@Rbnlaw of course your room is there, look on the upper side! i wouldn't have ruled out, as Fanerman said "for the life of me"
@ Josh
"Joey Jo-Jo Junior Shabbadoo?"
It wasn't intentional, but I guess Simpsons references just flow subconsciously from my fingertips.
Also, above, I meant "Guff."
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