Everyone is welcome to enter. You can only win one time initially, but, if entries slow down drastically, we'll open it up to previous winners.
The contest gives 10 sets of 3 clues each. Your job is to identify the SIM horse described in the clues. SIM horses may be of any breed, active, retired, pensioned or deceased, but each horse must have SIM race earnings of at least $100,000.
Mixed up names can be:
Alternate meanings for horse name (for example: Defeated by Musical Rhythm = Beat By Beat)
Restatements of name (for example: What an EKG Detects = Beatofmyheart)
There may also be puns, anagrams, use of horse #id numbers and other such devilish tricks. We can’t give away TOO much here.
Great thanks to Bill Outsilver, Iggy Timeeczech and Kelley Wachter for sending in puzzles!
A word of caution: as the puzzles were made up by different people, they will not be completely consistent. For example, capital letters may matter in one puzzle, but not in another; sometimes a run together clue will signify a horse with a run together name, but don't count on it; where the clues “sound out” a horse's name syllable by syllable, sometimes they'll be separated by a “+”, sometimes a “;”and sometimes not at all, and so on.
To win a prize, you need to correctly identify all three of the SIM horses described in any ONE of the sets. Disclaimer: "This game is intended to be fun; the authors realize that there may be arguments for more than one 'correct' answer. However, to make it fair to all, we must only accept what we have come up with. Sorry if you don't like a clue or its answer, but we've tested and retested all of these, and must stick to our guns! Thanks for understanding! - Leonard and Jeb"
The first players to get a set correct gets their pick of any prize still available. Since people were so generous and this year's contest is only 10 sets long, we ended up with more donated prizes than puzzle sets. So after this contest ends, the unclaimed prizes will be used in a real-time Chat contest. The Chat contest will be open to all (even if you've won in this contest) and you only have to answer one puzzle to win a prize. The Chat contest should be a lot of fun. We give more details later.
Rules:
You may now answer in one of two ways:
Find each horse's ID number, add them up and post only the total. (To find the horse ID#, go to the horse's page and look at up at the URL address; the horse's ID# is given at the end of the address.)
So, for example, if I thought the right answers to Set #9 were A Bus, A Crown Awaits, and Acapulco, I would add 9415 + 14273 + 18042 = 41730 so I would post ONLY: (Set 9) 41730
-OR-
Post one horse's name and the sum of the other two. For example, if the answers actually were Awestruck, A Crown Awaits and Acapulco and you posted: Set 13 - A Bus; 32315; you'd get back the response No and Yes. This way, you get more information, but you give away more information to others.
More Rules:
You may enter as many times as you want until you win, but you may only win once until we announce differently.
ONLY ONE GUESS PER POST. You will need to wait until you get a YES or NO from Jeb or Leo before you can post any new answer to any set. We'll try to be prompt!
Discussing/brainstorming/asking/bouncing ideas off of/working with anybody inside or outside of the SIM while you're solving these puzzles is perfectly fine. So go, talk, chat, message ... just have fun; that's the whole point! The only thing you might want to remember is that if we open up the contest later, you might not want to give away an answer that might get you another win!
Prizes:
This year, instead of pure GP or SIM$ prizes, we're spreading them around:
In addition to the prizes below EVERY prize will also include10K SIM$ 3K GPs!
Won by Andy Gol in Chat 1) Anna Leroux - Free breeding to Ometotchtli, Sixagonal and Break
Won by Corey Lange 2) Anna Leroux - Free mare lease to Ultra Made
Won by Vesper Sparrow 3) Anna Leroux - A Performing Tricks yearling
Won by Lauren Haggerty 4) Bill Outsilver - Free breeding to Gonzalo
Won by Steph Lonhro 5) Bill Outsilver – Theattractionisgon
Won by Anna Leroux 7) Cleo Patra - Two free Paint foals out of any two of her Paint mares (winner picks the mares, the sires and other stats then she'll send the foals over for $0)
Won by Tanitha Starlet 8 ) Happy Trails - A CAM and a foal out of the CAM by Midnight Tornado. Winner gets to pick CAM and specify foal.
Won by Bill Outsilver 9) Laura Ferguson - A foal out of Blue Condor (Black Condor x Siren by Chesapeake Bay) and she'll pay up to $50,000 of the stud fee
Won by Kelley Wachter 10) Laura Ferguson - One free breeding to any of her stallions
Won by Iggy T in Chat 11) Madelene Gilbert - Free breeding to Each Day, yearling filly w/ "wings"
Won by Jarrod Brush in Chat 12) Won by Meagan D'Amoure - free breeding to So Hot Im Shocking and to Temper . (She will also provide the mare if the winner doesn't have a Paint mare to choose from)
Won by Jerrod Brush in Chat 13) Ramey Furney - a foal out of the CAM Snow on Cedars by Seeing Ghosts Q (winner picks gender, color and name)
Won by Vesper Sparrow in Chat 14) Ramey Furney - Free breeding to Disturbance (turf miler) and free breeding to one of her Quarter Horse stallions
Won by Larry Burndorf in Chat 15) Regina Moore - Free breeding to any one of her MB stallions
Won by Laura Cameron 16 Rose Hepburn - Free breeding to Much Like Falling
Won by Nan Lanson in Chat 17 Sean Furney - Free breeding to Dark Implications, Learn A Lesson and Dynamite Jack (Appy),
Won by Emily Klein in Chat 18 Skippy Bowen - Free breeding to Splash Works
Won by Iggy Timeeczech 19 Steph Lonhro- Free breeding to Money Honey (Trotter) and to Planet (Dirt Sprinter)
Additionally, starting after 5 sets have been solved, we'll add a little Lagniappe or “sweetener” to each prize:
Steph Lonhro 6th solved gets prize (+ 10K SIM$ + 3KGPs) + 10K SIM$ + 2KGPs
Vesper Sparrow 7th solved gets prize (+ 10K SIM$ + 3KGPs) + 20K SIM$ + 4KGPs
Tanitha Starlet 8th solved gets prize (+ 10K SIM$ + 3KGPs) + 40K SIM$ + 6KGPs
Lauren Haggerty 9th solved gets prize (+ 10K SIM$ + 3KGPs) + 60K SIM$ + 9KGPs
Laura Cameron 10th solved gets prize (+ 10K SIM$ + 3KGPs) + 80K SIM$ + 12KGPs
And great thanks to our donors of SIM $ and GPs:Bill Outsilver, Cleo Patra, Corey Lange, Happy Trails, Jeb Clampett, Laura Cameron, Laura Ferguson, Leonard Beagle, Sean Furney and Tanitha Starlet!
Good Luck! Have Fun!
PUZZLES:
Solved by Vesper Sparrow SET 1
United States squared = America America
5309 = Time Goes On (867-5307/Jenny => horse id#867
Where Tom is and what he's doing = Outside Looking In
Solved by Bill Outsilver SET 2
Kentucky stew specialist = Burgoomaster
Mixed up H'ula Room = Oh L'amour (anagram)
Secondbyalength = Astridefromvictory
Solved by Corey Lange SET 3
Knockout; an unlucky number = Deck Thirteen
What the so vain one totally saw = Solar Eclipse
"Sands of Iwo Jima" could be described as a ... = Pacific Classic
Solved by Laura Cameron SET 4
Taito's space warrior = Invader
Bowler Sub = Derby Sandwich
How Low Can You Go? = Sports Jersey (lowest horse id# in the SIM - 12)
Soved by Lauren Haggerty SET 5
Tennis Star = Wimbledon Hero
Home of the Big Bang = Pasadena
O (The Letter) = Dash Dash Dash (--- is 'O' in Morse Code)
Solved by Steph Lonhro SET 6
Jumbled Karate Deters = Tearstreaked
One Puzzle (pun) = Amaze
Bob or Bentley and a Chuckle = Hope And A Laugh
Solved by Anna Leroux SET 7
Bottles of Beer = Catesque (horse ID# is 99)
Resound On The Rocks = Echo Iced
Winner’s reward, sometimes = Garland of Roses
Solved by Kelley Wachter SET 8
Down to Beg = On My Knees
S-I-N-G-E-R = Aretha Franklin (R-E-S-P-E-C-T)
Additionally above Cash (pun) = Andover The Moni
Solved by Iggy Timeeczech SET 9
No Liquor Shire = Dry County
555 Rexdale = Woodbine (Woodbine Racetrack's address is 555 Rexdale)
Exist (pun) = Bee (groan)
Solved by Tanitha Starlet SET 10
Top Beer = Best Bud
Moral question = Right Or Wrong
A type of musical sensation = Singular (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyZeGOsR9IA)
