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| Before The Game
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A "before" team picture.
The Game started so early the camera still thought it necessary
to use a flash!
I'm second from the left.
| Gotta love the matching shirts!
| Our house's prefect.
| Other houses' prefects.
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| The gathering crowd.
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| The faculty and the laptop that will be the sorting hat.
| The crowd awaits the sorting.
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| The Train To School
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| On the train, waiting for our first clue.
| On the train, waiting for our first clue.
| On the train, waiting for our first clue. That's me on the left.
| And the train departs the station.
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| The leaders of Snout, the august team that ran this Game.
| An owl delivers our first clue.
| Every flavor beans (a.k.a. jelly bellies) sorted into piles.
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| Downtown Sacramento
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| The photo clue provides directions to our first class.
| The map accompanying the clue.
| Our first class: potions.
| Our second class: care of magical creatures.
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| Part of the clue/portal we needed to get past to enter our "dormitories" (vans).
| Working together with other study groups in the house to gain entrance to our
dorm rooms.
| A monk attempting a spell.
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| Further Afield
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| At the Nimbus Fish Hatchery, the rest of my team (and a few members of another
team) rush down to retrieve the broomsweeper clue. Excellent. View
full -- it's a good picture.
| Nice pond at the clue site at Green Valley and Loch, in Western El Dorado County.
We got the mirror clue here.
| A view of the bridge over the pond/creek, with two teams solving the clue.
| Withdrawing money (both gold coins and United States cash) from the goblins
at Gringotts. This actually was underground in a mine! (Look at the walls.)
The mine was in a building on Main Street in Placerville. Sadly, I don't recall
the name but I know it was next to the Mexican restaurant, Tortilla Flat,
where we had a quick dinner.
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| Chocolate bar clue. This bar is just chocolate.
| Chocolate bar clue. This bar is chocolate and almonds.
| Chocolate bar clue. This bar is chocolate, nuts, and fruit.
| Late at night, some teams of the same house help each other (on the mythical
creature sound grid clue).
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| The tile clue, as originally presented.
| The tile clue, correctly assembled.
| The reverse side of the correctly assembled tile clue gives the message.
| The site of the last and painful clue just near Jibboom Street by the Sacramento River (not far from downtown). We were one of only two teams that made it
here and did this clue (with some help from the other team and GC).
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