The ClueChaser logo that I created a few years ago is both sad looking and kind of boring. So I decided to change it. Well sort of. I am still working on a new logo but in the mean time I have a new design for t-shirts and other ClueChaser apparel. This new design is based off something created for ClueChaser by Trillustrations and it looks pretty good on a t-shirt.

Here’s it is.

ClueChaser Puzzle Shirt by ClueChaser

So be quick and run over to Zazzle.com and be first in your area to proudly sport the new look.

Ah yes, the license plate puzzle. This is among my favorite puzzles. In this game it was important to create ways to reveal information about the story line as well as offer a puzzle to be solved. This puzzle provides both. The players got here by clicking on the license plate on the wall in the office which had now become an active link.
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Surely by now you must have heard of Downfall parody videos. They are all over Youtube. If not, here’s a brief history….
There is a German movie called Downfall. It’s about Hitler’s last few days during World War II. There is a scene in the movie when he and his officers are in a bunker and has learned that he is losing the war. He goes into a tirade and starts yelling at everyone around him. Of course, to understand this you’d have to be able to speak German. Or you’d have to read the English subtitles. And this is where the fun comes in.
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I’m very excited. I solved a personal puzzle of my own. I had misplaced two Cluechaser videos a few months ago and had given them up for lost. One was the second pre-game video for Game 3 and the other was part 3 of 3 of the Adolf parody series I created. Today I found them.
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Game 1: The Missing Mr. E began on April 1st 2008. Many of the players from the previous game returned along with lots of new ones. I don’t have an exact number but it seemed my marketing strategy was successful at least on some level.
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Now that we’ve walked through each of the puzzles in the first Cluechaser puzzle contest, Puzzle Master, it’s time to turn our attention to the second puzzle game.

I realize that some of you are probably saying “Wait, if this is game 2 then why is it called Game 1?” Great question. Although it’s true that this is the second contest, it is the first game in a three part game series called the Mr. E Series.
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Let’s jump in the way-back machine and travel back in time to the spring of 1947. Location – the Judean desert. A couple of goat herders are looking for a lost goat (or not, depending on which story you read). They stumble across a cave that contains clay jars filled with scrolls. They didn’t know it then but they had just made the most important biblical discovery since the Codex Sinaiticus was found by Constantin von Tischendorf in 1844 in the Monastery of Saint Catherine at Sinai.
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And now we arrive at the final puzzle in the Puzzle Master game series. By this time the players had been playing just 15 minutes shy of 32 full days and successfully solved 9 puzzles, each one completely different from the next. A wide range of knowledge and skills were required to get this far. I think it’s safe to say that no player could have made it this far on their own without help from the message board. And that is exactly what I hoped for. I thought the idea of competing players having to work together was a fantastic one and was so excited to see it work out just as I had envisioned. Now the moment of truth was fast approaching. Someone was just one puzzle away from finishing the first ever Cluechaser puzzle competition. It turns out it would take that person 7 hours and 43 minutes to figure it out.
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We have just about finished our journey back through time to revisit the puzzles that made up the first ever Cluechaser puzzle game, Puzzle Master. We now take a look at my favorite puzzle of all, Historical Documents.

With a solve time of 6 days, 17 hours and 45 minutes this was the second most difficult puzzle in the game. I was impressed with the level of complexity I was able to add into it.
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We are nearing the end of our look back at the puzzles that made up the first ever Cluechaser online collaborative puzzle game Puzzle Master. Next up is puzzle number 8, Crossword.

What puzzle game would be complete without a crossword puzzle? Not this one, that’s for sure. I knew I wanted to include one but wasn’t sure how I could turn it into something useful. Obviously I had to bury a clue or an answer somewhere but how? There were some obvious choices but finally I had a moment of inspiration and came up with what I thought at the time was a brilliant idea. Looking back on it 3 years later I see it as more lame than brilliant. But still, it is a clever trick if I do say so myself.
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