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2004 U.S. Puzzle Championship Winners

Posted by michael on from the brain-teaser dept.

Fortran IV writes "The winner of the 2004 Google U.S. Puzzle Championship has been announced. Roger Barkan, last year's runner-up, scored 367 of a possible 432 points by solving 22 of 25 puzzles in just 2-1/2 hours. (It would take me an hour just to copy down all the answers.) This was previously mentioned here. The complete test is still available for the fun of it."

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  1. How ironic by Zorilla · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...a Google cache of a Google site that got slashdotted: Click Here

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  2. Server already melting by Rupan · · Score: 5, Informative

    I am trying to get the actual challenge file, but for the moment I have the 180k instructions pdf mirrored here:

    http://www.css-auth.com/google/

    If/When I get the challenge file I will put it up there.

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  3. Hmm, I know that guy.... by strook · · Score: 5, Informative

    I was roommates with Roger at summer camp way back in the day. His girlfriend would write him encoded letters and he'd figure out how to break the code. Silly me, I thought it was a waste of time....

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  4. mirror by mahbidness · · Score: 4, Informative
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  5. Re:Your tax dollars at work by wass · · Score: 3, Informative
    Yeah, I guess there's no possibility that he works for Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory , located in Laurel, MD.

    And likewise there should be no further possibility he could even be a professor in mathematics from either University of Maryland, College Park , Johns Hopkins University , or many of the other nearby colleges/universities I'm too lazy to link (George Washington University, Towson University, Loyola, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, etc etc).

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