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Google US Puzzle Championship

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the how-about-tic-tac-toe dept.

friedegg writes "Google has announced their sponsorship of the US Puzzle Championship, which they describe as a "a national online competition to identify America's most logical minds." Two winners will join the US Puzzle Team, and head to the Netherlands for the World Puzzle Championship in October. The US Puzzle Championship will be held Sunday, May 31 at 1pm EDT, but registration closes tomorrow, May 29 at 9pm EDT! Make sure you read the rules of the challenge if you plan to participate. The rules note that "Members of the Canadian puzzle team may also be selected using this test. Unofficial participation is open to all puzzlers world-wide.""

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  1. D'oh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    America?s most logical minds"

    Oddly appropriate for the topic to have a question mark in there.

  2. Yikes by The-Bus · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know what would be really embarassing? If people started Googling for the right answers.

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  3. From wpc.puzzles.com... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
    Perhaps this Google search will find you!
    In Soviet Russia... oh, nevermind. Now they're building the jokes into the articles, this is really getting out of hand!
  4. That's just great by Anonymous+Custard · · Score: 4, Funny

    Those archived qualifying tests were just what I needed to make myself feel really stupid first thing in the morning.

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  5. when i was a kid by SolemnDragon · · Score: 4, Funny

    when i was maybe five, i solved one in two minutes... with a screwdriver. My mum handed one to each of us and told us to make the colours all the same on every side. So we did. My sister took off all the stickers and put them on again as well as she could. I took a look at the stickers and decided they wouldn't peel well, so i just took it apart and out it back together again. She knew how sis had done hers, she couldn't figure out how i'd done mine till i handed her the screwdriver. She started locking the toolbox after that. *sigh* and it was a looong time before i got my own toolset. Funny, that- if you can't use a tool they worry that you're gonna hurt yourself with it... if you CAN, they worry about what you're going to use it on next...

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