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NOAC 2000 - Cube Puzzle Trading
Cube Puzzle Trading
Saturday night of NOAC 2000 saw the debut of a great new wide game - Cube
Puzzle Trading. Each participant was given a bag of nine identical cubes, with
people from different parts of the country getting different pieces. The goal of the
event was to find other Arrowmen with whom to trade pieces to obtain all nine cubes and
complete the puzzle.
![Cubes anyone](cubes.jpg)
Think it is easy to find eight other cubes to complete the set? Thousands of
conference participants spent a lot of time walking around the intramural field and Tom
Black Track trying to trade for the pieces they needed. One technique was to yell
out the number of the piece you had as loud as you could. Others just ran as fast as
they could. What worked the best? Hard to tell, but it was lots of fun for
everyone.
Some Arrowmen tried to trade other things besides
cubes - do you think a stuffed antelope is worth a number 6? Maybe these guys worked out a
deal that made them both happy. Who ended up with the antelope? We'll never
know. However everyone looked like they thought that this was a great wide game, a
good way to meet other people and a great souvenir of NOAC.
![Cube 1 for an 8.](cubes5_small.jpg)
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This could have taken hours, but there were several things to
spur the participants on to complete the puzzle. |
Some were in a hurry to get to the
other great events at NOAC, some wanted to see what the puzzle made when completed, but
everyone hurried once the weather started to look ominous. Then it poured. |
![It's gonna rain!](gonnarain_small.jpg)
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![Completed Puzzle](puzzle2_small.jpg)
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Arrowmen were quite happy when they completed
the puzzle. This proud Arrowman, Dusty V., from Wa-Hi-Nasa Lodge 111, of
Franklin, Tennessee, finished his cube in under fifteen minutes. |
This page revised 7/30/00.
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