This weekend, Lauren and participated in a geek event at Microsoft called Iron Puzzler. It involves a day of writing two puzzles (one “paper based” and one “non paper based”). Game control released the four “secret ingredients” on Saturday morning (of which we had to incorporate at least 1-2 of in our puzzles):

• Spoon
• The letter L
• Clock
• Mercury

For our non-paper puzzle, we wrote a text-based adventure game (think something in between Zork and Monkey Island).

It got rave reviews by the participants of Iron Puzzler, so if you want to check it out (and trust me enough to download an exe :)) I’ve posted the game and README. Be ready for mass amounts of silliness!