Tuesday, August 23, 2011

A Puzzling Contest

by Crazy Ivan

And now for something completely different...

So I hear a rumor that you want to win a free Dodge Myachi.  I also heard that you wanted a completely different type of Myachi contest; something unlike anything we've done on the blog before.  I understand.  It's been a while since the last contest and you're ready to reboot with something crazy and fun.

Well, you know how we are about doing whatever it is that you want, so here it is.  A chance to win a free Myachi.  And all you have to do is hunt for some hidden treasure.

I'm sure you know how this works.  Hidden in the puzzle below are a bunch of Myachi tricks.  They can appear up, down, backwards, forwards or diagonally.  Your job is to find as many of them as you can.  I'm not going to tell you how many there are, but there are quite a few.

MYACHI TRICK SEARCH:




E L G G U J S N M U L O C E L L P H O N E V A R K B J G A G
C K C A B E H T D N I H E B S Q K S F Y U N O D A R E T P B
H S I F G N I Y L F U B N P C L I P P E R K I C K E X L T I
L E Q R E P P I L C G N I Y L F L X P J C Q K L N V L Y B V
H I M T T B X V M I N D G R I N D F L O W O U O O O B R A M
E T R A N S F O R M E R M Y P H A U R G L H S T E P O V E R
J L B G T U N U Q Y T H A A P C S G N I S I R O J O M G N N
C R B N X R V O S Y G Z Z Y E D N I N S P I N H K H V A O Q
C L Z I M U I E I X K J W P R I W E F H N O I S U F N I R S
W I D W S A N X R P H B L O D N S O H D G K I G T D S P T T
O V E N U S F L Y T R A P N E A Q T R A R E C N L U G R C I
G U K I E O O P I A N O A K L V L B H J J O E I L N T U E F
R P N D R T E P I T F T C T A I L W H I P N W L K I D T L F
J N T D E N P N M D S I A S Y Y Y L M A N T I S E E X T E A
J B Q J E O F M E I H E Y I B Z V C I G J K H N U C D J N R
Y Z M X T R Y A K C U D N N I A A K R O M O E Q U L U I I M
N V U E E B T I D N A B E I R R R P A Y E G A R I M I R S P
J C E E K H Y H M R S E W M R C G G J N P R E P P O P K B I
R E Z M S A T A E B T R A E H E Y Y L T X T U R B I N E S W
T E D S U Y N D O L D G Y G H M V C P I S T O N S T W Z D T
R U E I M P E S P A E T O E S T A L L A A P U N I S H E R S
O E E B L V I B O D Y G U A R D W E O O E T H L V V I C Z Z
I Y N O I S U F D L O C U Z O O H C T W P A P R P K V N P E
O Q S L T I K O F E E L T F V P W O U Y B S A M U R A I R Q
L Q Y B E B N R F Y A S E A I I G R S C U E C M O N T F P V
Z C L W A V E E A B G Q T N E R I N R Y D Z A L M V J A J P
R C A G J T S P I D E R M A N T T A M U H I L R I V U I O P
D M Q D T I M S U N A K M U L U D N E P B E H D L R I Q N C
N B G U W I F A X I Q O T W N L T R E X R T U I R A I Y K E
V V B S N B J C N V K A A O E N G S M C Z K C W E X M I I B

So before you get to searching, let me explain the rules.  If you want in on this contest, find as many tricks as you can.  Write down a list of all the moves that you find and email them to me at aaron@myachi.com.  If you find a bunch of them, email me and then realize that you've found a couple more, go ahead and send me another email.

The contest ends in 10 days (Friday, September 2nd at midnight).  Whoever finds the most Myachi tricks in the puzzle is going to be the winner.  If more than one person ties for the most tricks found, I'll select the winner randomly between them.

As a quick hint, all the tricks hidden in the puzzle either appeared as Trick of the Day videos or appear on the Myachi Instructional DVD.  No fair making up a new trick, calling it the "Vvbsbsj" and saying you found another trick.  Only established moves count.

Couple other important points.  Keep in mind that I'm not going to see where you found the words, but rather I'll see only which words that you find.  Don't tell anybody which words you found or you'll be giving them an unfair advantage.  Also, I'm aware that some people might just guess at which tricks are there.  That means that if you include a Trick that isn't actually in the puzzle, I won't count your entry at all.  That way you can't win just by sending me a list of all 193 tricks that might be in the puzzle.

Have fun and let me know how you like the contest concept.  This is a bit different so I want to know whether we should do more puzzle based contests like this in the future.

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