World Explorers 3 - Discussion and Recap thread

[stan4d_steph]

Hey World Explorers, what did you think? Share your thoughts and discuss quests here!

[Drince88]

We had a great time! I really think it helped us adding two more people for our team (slight understatement there)! And the two new ones understood why they were the only ones we could add and still achieve goal number 1.

Thought the autograph book was inspired.

Where was the villains coin press?

[Tony]

We had a great time! I really think it helped us adding two more people for our team (slight understatement there)! And the two new ones understood why they were the only ones we could add and still achieve goal number 1.

Thought the autograph book was inspired.

Where was the villains coin press?

The villains coin press was back by the Pizza Port restaurant.

[Drince88]

Thanks, Tony!

[SnowWhite59]

YenSid's Apprentices had a great time. One trivia question that we couldn't find was "Ricky sez ***** spelled backwards is *****." Where was that one? We saw the one we had missed for Syd on the way out of the park just a little late.

[Tony]

Rickey sez is a poster with Rizzo rat, right at the exit of Muppets. You can see it without entering the exit directly.

Star equals Rats backwards

[stacielee]

What/where was the hidden quest?

[SnowWhite59]

Rickey sez is a poster with Rizzo rat, right at the exit of Muppets. You can see it without entering the exit directly.

Star equals Rats backwards

That's funny because this morning sitting in the Orlando airport, my husband and I were brainstorming about the questions we had missed and thinking about what the answers could be based on Hollywood. This is the answer I told him it probably was. I guess once we aren't under pressure, the answers pop-up in our minds.

[Drince88]

Rickey sez is a poster with Rizzo rat, right at the exit of Muppets. You can see it without entering the exit directly.

Star equals Rats backwards

We looked at those, too!
We guessed Stressed and Desserts, just cause I know they work!

The hidden quest was the #/# at the bottom of some of the pages. Turn into letters with straight number substitution, and the question (I think it was unscrambled if you had your pages together still, not sure, since we didn't get it) was something about what the park was dedicated to, and the answer was Hollywood. We didn't get it, but we DID get our response from the same plaque, of the camera man across from the tip board. (We guessed the park dedication date.)

We tried some interesting things with it - using the colors of the paper, the colors listed with the staff birthdays (we found out what that red herring was after the event, too), and the years listed on each quest and subtracted them and then tried a couple of ways to turn it into letters. It didn't work AT ALL, but it was a good thing for two to work on when two of us were waiting to get our glow-cube drinks! We kept trying to see if it worked with the autograph pens - but there wasn't a 'white' pen!

The different colored papers for the quests was a real life saver for us - the FIRST thing we did was remove the brad and start dividing up the quests! Then the second thing was write the quest name on the second sheet so in case they got separated, we could put them back together!

[tweetheart]

First of all, thank you so much to the staff for another fantastic game!

Now I have this great big pile of buttons, and I don't know which one goes with which quest! Some of them are easy, like the addition one or the question marks. But some of the can apply to more than one quest. Is there a master key to let us know which ones go with what?

[stan4d_steph]

I have a list at home and will post it up tonight!

[Drince88]

Thanks, Steph!

(BTW, sorry about the game)

[LisaG]

We looked at those, too!
We guessed Stressed and Desserts, just cause I know they work!

The hidden quest was the #/# at the bottom of some of the pages. Turn into letters with straight number substitution, and the question (I think it was unscrambled if you had your pages together still, not sure, since we didn't get it) was something about what the park was dedicated to, and the answer was Hollywood. We didn't get it, but we DID get our response from the same plaque, of the camera man across from the tip board. (We guessed the park dedication date.)

We tried some interesting things with it - using the colors of the paper, the colors listed with the staff birthdays (we found out what that red herring was after the event, too), and the years listed on each quest and subtracted them and then tried a couple of ways to turn it into letters. It didn't work AT ALL, but it was a good thing for two to work on when two of us were waiting to get our glow-cube drinks! We kept trying to see if it worked with the autograph pens - but there wasn't a 'white' pen!

The different colored papers for the quests was a real life saver for us - the FIRST thing we did was remove the brad and start dividing up the quests! Then the second thing was write the quest name on the second sheet so in case they got separated, we could put them back together!

We guessed stressed - desserts and the park dedication date too! We figured we had nothing to lose by guessing

[stan4d_steph]

Here are the quest names and their associated buttons:

Under the Hollywood Sign - Director's chair
The Legendary Script - Megaphone
Train Order - 1 + 1 = 2
Personal Property - Clapboard
Bright Lights, Big City - I apple NY
The Last Picture Show - 3D glasses
Audition - Star Wars script
Lost Weekend - Film reel
Spy With a Cold Nose - TV
Autograph Hound - Star
Old California - Eye
Valley Of Decision - Masks
Trivia - Question marks
Animation cel - Artist's palette

[tweetheart]

Thanks so much Steph!

[stacielee]

Hey World Explorers, what did you think? Share your thoughts and discuss quests here!

The Divine Divas had a great time! Although we were exhausted and our feet hurt by the end! Trying to figure out how to lengthen our stamina for next time... Didn't get the hidden quest but figured it had to do with the numbers on the pages. Last time, in AK, we only completed 2 quests, this time I THINK we completed all but 2 quests, so we are definitely improving. The more we do it together, the better we will get, hopefully. Question on the Muppet quest: Is the coloring all we had to do? We guessed on some of the trivia, hope we gave the staff some laughs! And on the CA and FL pictures, we just put all CA, maybe we'll get half right... Anyways, can't wait until the DL Spring MA, any ideas yet on when that will be?

[stan4d_steph]

The Divine Divas had a great time! Although we were exhausted and our feet hurt by the end! Trying to figure out how to lengthen our stamina for next time... Didn't get the hidden quest but figured it had to do with the numbers on the pages. Last time, in AK, we only completed 2 quests, this time I THINK we completed all but 2 quests, so we are definitely improving. The more we do it together, the better we will get, hopefully. Question on the Muppet quest: Is the coloring all we had to do?

Glad you had a great time! You had to select the correct color pen from the pile based on your answers and then color in the cel as indicated by the associated question number when you placed the cel on top of the quest page. Exact spelling mattered.

[stacielee]

Glad you had a great time! You had to select the correct color pen from the pile based on your answers and then color in the cel as indicated by the associated question number when you placed the cel on top of the quest page. Exact spelling mattered.

So some of the pens had incorrect spelling?? I didn't realize that, I don't even remember seeing different spellings!!

[AVP]

So some of the pens had incorrect spelling?? I didn't realize that, I don't even remember seeing different spellings!!

Different spelling, different punctuation, different capitalization. That's why there were soooo many pens.

AVP

[stacielee]

Different spelling, different punctuation, different capitalization. That's why there were soooo many pens.

AVP

Well crap! I did look at a few of the other pens but didn't see any that were even close to the ones I chose. Did that one have any type of partial credit? I remember on the answer sheet it was in a box and had /50 in the box. Or was that just because there wasn't an answer to write on the sheet?

[stan4d_steph]

Well crap! I did look at a few of the other pens but didn't see any that were even close to the ones I chose. Did that one have any type of partial credit? I remember on the answer sheet it was in a box and had /50 in the box. Or was that just because there wasn't an answer to write on the sheet?

There was no partial credit for the quest. The box on the answer sheet was for the graders to note your team's score. One of the easiest ones to miss was this sign, with a lower case i and l.

[AVP]

Troops, the MouseAdventure recap is NOW PUBLISHED! Also, the event survey is now live, and we have LOTS of questions for our World Explorers players about future events.

I also have the overall rankings for the teams, for those who didn't come to the post-game ceremony and get their individual scores.

Team #	Team Name	New Team?	Total Score
1	Animal Kingdom Avengers (fka Eptrotters)	No	483
2	The Drince88e8	No	566
3	Pooh's Corner	No	426
4	WedWay PeopleMover Posse	Yes	399
5	Jiminy's Crickets	No	289
6	Pooh-al-up	No	293
7	Smoke Tree Ranchers	No	505
8	Lost Falls Expedition	No	485
9	Three and the Ragged Tower	No	280
10	Divine Divas	No	385
11	Heffalump and Woozle	No	546
12	Mother Knows Best	No	388
14	Just Keep Swimming	No	437
15	Team Legen ... wait for it... dary!	No	447
16	Disney Detective Agency	No	465
17	The Tangaroa-Ru Crew	No	552
18	Abominations	No	390
19	Electric Mayhem	Yes	493
20	Rat-Patooties	Yes	450
21	We're Celebrating!	Yes	246
22	Castaways	No	539
23	Timekeepers	Yes	396
24	The Ladybugs	No	380
26	YenSid's Apprentices	No	579
27	Mickey Troopers	No	340
28	Finding Temo	No	432
30	San Diego Mouse Catchers Lite Edition	No	554
31	Team Plutonium	No	499
33	The Finsters	Yes	440
34	Hollywood Power Couples	Yes	483
35	Krakatoa Punch Posse	No	372
36	Tigger & Tiger	No	472
37	Raiders of the Mouse Parks	No	378
38	Heffatooies	No	584
41	Grumpy & Dopey	Yes	141

[DMommyP]

May just be my computer but the link to the recap here doesn't work. I was able to get to it from the Twitter post.

Two survey comments (don't know if they should go here or in the recao thread but I'm here so...)
1) When asking to rate the enjoyment of eye-spys I kind of had a dilemma. I really hate, er strongly dislike, those that can be of anything, anywhere. But ones that are themed or confined to a specified area are fun.

2) Hints for the WDW game? I thought I heard at breakfast (though goodness knows that I could be wrong) that there weren't any hints for this game. I answered no to did you use the "available hints" because I didn't know what those were but we did ask for clarifications a couple of times so I may not have interpreted the question correctly.

[stan4d_steph]

May just be my computer but the link to the recap here doesn't work. I was able to get to it from the Twitter post.

Thanks, it's fixed now.

[AVP]

2) Hints for the WDW game? I thought I heard at breakfast (though goodness knows that I could be wrong) that there weren't any hints for this game. I answered no to did you use the "available hints" because I didn't know what those were but we did ask for clarifications a couple of times so I may not have interpreted the question correctly.

There weren't any free hints for this game, but there were definitely hints available.

AVP