Word Search Winner!

by Crazy Ivan

First of all, let me just say sorry that it took so long to get this announcement up.  I meant to put it up Saturday evening at 8, but I'd forgotten that this was Kore's last weekend in the city before he went home to Florida once more.  I wound up out with him, Pinky and his girlfriend until late Saturday.  Then, to no great surprise, I had trouble with my email yesterday and couldn't check it until I got into the office today.

We wound up with a bunch of last minute entries and we almost had a surprise winner sneak in at the last minute, but in the end the person who has been leading the pack pretty much the whole time won.  He did it pretty clever, too, managing to find exactly one more trick in the puzzle than I intentionally put there.  More on that in a second, but by popular request, here's a list of all the words in the puzzle.  Below that (Spoiler Alert!) is a pretty shoddy picture that shows where all those various words are:

1. Aqueduct
2. Armageddon
3. Atlas
4. A-Train
5. Backoline
6. Bandit
7. Batman
8. Behind the Back
9. Bodyguard
10. Brainfreeze
11. Brontosaurus
12. Brooksie
13. Bruce Lee
14. Butterfly
15. Casper
16. Cellphone
17. Centrifuge
18. Chicken Wing
19. Clipper Delay
20. Clipper Kick
21. Cold Fusion
22. Columns Juggle
23. Cradle
24. Crazy Ivan
25. Crypto
26. Cyclops
27. Daredevil
28. Darkslide
29. Drop of Death
30. Duck
31. Electron
32. Enigma
33. Faceplant
34. Flow
35. Flying Clipper
36. Flying Fish
37. Gemini
38. Gui
39. Heart Beat
40. Helix
41. Hop Over
42. Hulk
43. Illusion
44. Impossible
45. Infusion
46. In Spin
47. In Wing
48. Jedi
49. Jim Carrey
50. Jump Rope
51. Lotus
52. Mantis
53. Matrix
54. Mind Grind
55. Mirage
56. Mojo Rising
57. Musketeer
58. Neo
59. Ninja
60. Osis
61. Pendulum
62. Piano
63. Pistons
64. Popper
65. Pteradon
66. Punisher
67. Raven
68. Samurai
69. Scorpion Strike
70. Sidekick
71. Slingshot
72. Snake
73. Sole Stall
74. Spider Man
75. Spidey Sense
76. Split
77. Standing Rock
78. Step Over
79. Stiff Arm
80. Stutter
81. Swordfish
82. Tail Grab
83. Tail Whip
84. Thinker
85. Toe Stall
86. Trampoline
87. Transformer
88. T-Rex
89. Tripod
90. Tunnel
91. Turbine
92. Under the Leg
93. Venus Fly Trap
94. Vert
95. Wave
96. Wavy Gravy
97. Wolverine
98. Yoga

So those are all the words that I put in there intentionally.  There were a few other words that others managed to locate that accidentally slipped into the chaos, but none of them were tricks so that's the complete list.  Interestingly enough, nobody managed to find all of them, though 3 people found all but one of them.  This would have left me picking randomly from the tie but for one unforeseen variable.

See, one of the guys actually found a trick in there that I missed.  The trick "Raven" contains the word "Rave", which is also a trick, of course.  Only one of the three noticed that and managed to get a word ahead of everyone else.  And thus our winner (by a nose) cemented his victory.

I don't want to announce his name because all I have is his real name and I'm not 100% sure what his name is on the forum (I'm 99.6% sure but I don't want to get it wrong and then horribly disappoint the person I thought it was by not giving them a Dodge), but I can say that his initials are JR.

So congrats on the last minute win.  I'll email you with instructions on how to claim your prize and everything.  For those that are curious, the solution to the puzzle is below.  To be honest, it's probably just as confusing as just trying to find the answers in the puzzle, if not more so, but it seemed only fair to present it now that the contest is over:

Hope you all enjoyed the contest.  I'm guessing from the overwhelming response that many of you did.  So keep an eye on the blog.  I'll be announcing the next giveaway soon so if you didn't win this time, don't worry, there'll always be another chance coming.