Thanks for the info!
Thanks for the info!
Team - Club 34
1st place Family Basic In MouseAdventure 365 (Fall 2013)
1st place Family Basic in MouseAdventure Musical (Spring 2013) - top score in all of Basic!
2nd place Basic in The MouseAdventure Zone (Fall 2011)
How many points were the J, Q, and K quests worth?
I believe J and K were worth 60, K were 80
I was, of course, thrilled that Team Cute and Fluffy won the family division, but I'm pretty pleased with how we placed overall. 18 out of 198 is pretty good for our three generation bunch!
Trivia Answers are now up!
Hakuna Matata
Parent of a Princess, Disney Cruise Line Community Leader, DL College Program Alum (PM me for info) , and former Disney Store Plush Princess
There's nothing like listening to "Feed the Birds" while sitting on the steps of St. Paul's.
The Dealing Divas had so much fun!! With 2 young adults on our team, it made a big difference. They were able to figure out some things that our old minds just couldn't grasp!!! And 13th place! Better than our last Card Games place of 17. Onward and ... well, probably not upward! But forward!!!
Reindeer Games, Dec 2009-75th place; Decades, May 2010-48th place; World Explorers II, Oct 2010-24th place; Luau, Apr 2011-11th place; World Explorers III, Nov 2011-26th place; Card Games, Mar 2012-17th place; Road Trip, Sept 2012-35th place; World Explorers IV, Nov 2012-7th place; Musical, May 2013-20th place; 365, Sept 2013-29th place; World Explorers V, Nov 2013-30th place; Card Games Deuces Wild, Apr 2014-13th place
24th place for us. Not *quite* top 20 -- but 24/190 is certainly respectable. We'll take it!
I was thinking the Jacks were 60, Queens were 80 & Kings were 100. Oh well.
I would be interested to see a breakdown of team placements and scatter locations to see if scatter location *might* have had an effect on outcomes. We were hats, so starting with the Downtown Disney quests made sense for us. I know at least one hats team was quite (loudly and vocally) annoyed about being in the last group to leave the ballroom. I must confess that I'm curious to know how that team did.
Team Happy Place - Winners Spring 2009 MouseAdventure: Trains, Trams & Monorails
Would rather be looking at the back side of water...
Everything in life is only for now.
Nope - it never ends.
Our scatter was Hats too, and I know *just* who you're talking about! LOL.
I'd also be curious to know how the scatters effected overall scores. We felt like the Hats quests were way more time consuming that Bears (the only other ones we got to), but maybe that was just our typical slow start out the gate.
Team "Club 34" - NOW MASTERS!
1st place Family in MouseAdventure Ready Player One (Spring 2015)
2nd place Family in MouseAdventure Card Games: Deuces Wild (Spring 2014)
1st place Family in MouseAdventure 365 (Fall 2013)
1st place Family in MouseAdventure Musical (Spring 2013) - top score in all of Basic!
Too funny. I think all the Hats knew who they were & we didn't want them to drag us into their gripe session. Sigh! They just didn't get it.
I'd be curious to see how starting in DTD compared to the others. We saw all the same teams there for a loooong time. I'm sure there's no record of which teams were scattered where.
We were happy to start with Bears -- I think if we'd gotten Hats, we would have skipped it entirely (at least at first), only because we know the parks much better than the hotels and DTD. Any past quests in those areas always seem to take longer because we just don't know where everything is as well. DTD is something I pass through on the way to spending a lot of time in the parks. I hardly ever go to the hotels, so I'd be nearly hopeless there. We ended up getting through the other three suits and never making it to Hats, so I wonder if they were actually harder or if, like me, most people just know the parks on a much deeper level than the hotels/DTD.
We didn't find the DTD quests terribly hard - actually thought they were pretty easy. There was a LOT of walking, though. As seems to be our pattern, we spent way too much time on our first set of quests. Once we got up to speed, we were working quite well.
Team Happy Place - Winners Spring 2009 MouseAdventure: Trains, Trams & Monorails
Would rather be looking at the back side of water...
Everything in life is only for now.
Nope - it never ends.
We were curious as to how the scatters effected things as well. We had truly been hoping to be scattered to DTD this time, since we tend to spend too much time in the parks and never get there. Our team started in Fantasyland/Toontown, and never got out of Disneyland except for the last 20 minutes of the game.
So we may have missed it during the post-event discussion, but where the heck was the gecko???
Merrilee
~San Diego Mouse Catchers
We were scattered to DCA and after leaving the ballroom found out that one of our team members had left their sunglasses on the floor so we had to go back. When we made it to DCA we quickly looked at all of the quests and decided not to do bears at all and head to hats first. We knew that the maps were close to the hotel exit and we'd be able start the Deuces Wild quest early.
I'd be interested in knowing how many of the teams did the Deuces Wild quest
I'd be curious too, but we can't correlate results with scatter start location. The scatter cards were randomly assigned, so we don't actually know where specific teams were started. I do know that several Hats teams did pick up their materials and still headed straight into the park.
Is there a way to have someone check our score. I'm getting a completely different number than what is posted on the list. Dealing Divas, #64. Even if just a list of what we got points for so I can match it up to what I think we got and see what I'm missing. Thanks!!
Reindeer Games, Dec 2009-75th place; Decades, May 2010-48th place; World Explorers II, Oct 2010-24th place; Luau, Apr 2011-11th place; World Explorers III, Nov 2011-26th place; Card Games, Mar 2012-17th place; Road Trip, Sept 2012-35th place; World Explorers IV, Nov 2012-7th place; Musical, May 2013-20th place; 365, Sept 2013-29th place; World Explorers V, Nov 2013-30th place; Card Games Deuces Wild, Apr 2014-13th place
I'm super bummed at myself-we gambled on the Deuces Wild quest, found the correct hexagonal tiles, found the question, decoded the letter scramble and found the proper question. But for the life of us, we could not figure out what an art route was. We were thinking "Oh, maybe they have art hanging in the hotels and they give tours" or something equally convoluted. Haha I think we're so used to the MouseAdventures making us run all over creation we didn't even think of the obvious. Even more of a bummer, I work in transportation...kicking myself for not seeing the acronym. Alas, we'll get it next time!
We had a ton of fun at this MouseAdventures, but I don't think Flight of the Navigators navigated our time very well...managed to drop from 10 to 34th place. Ah well, whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger, right? I'm already eagerly awaiting the next MouseAdventures so we can prove ourselves! Man I love these games...wish they could be every month
We started in masks and it took a looooong time to complete those. The 20 pointers took much longer than the J, Q, and K quests. By the time we moved to Fantasyland and got the J, Q, and K quests there, we didn't have time to do both the Q and K since they were so far apart.
Alex,
Any chance we can get the EyeSpy answers? I won't be able to get back to DL soon and it's always fun to know which pictures were where.
Thanks!
It's more than a week later and Once Upon A Dream is still completely bowled over at placing 3rd (our highest ranking ever)!!! We love the Card Games format and are incredibly grateful to Alex for giving us something to do this Spring.
Having done the Card Games format last time (placed 6th with only 20 fewer points!), we kind of knew what we were in for. But we definitely had a great time strategizing, taking risks, and logic-ing our way out of the few holes we dug for ourselves. Last time 'round, our scatter point was inside Disneyland and we spent so much time in the Park that we never made it to DownTown Disney, but this time we scattered to (and completely finished) DownTown Disney before heading into Disneyland (don't make us go through bag check, don't make us go through bag check lol). We whipped through Crowns as quickly as we could and then decided to tackle Deuces Wild. After finishing the Deuces Wild quest, we decided to do Bears instead of Masks (so super sad we didn't get to do charades though; if only we had known!) and barely finished the Jack from memory before rushing to turn in at Taste Pilot's Grill.
All in all a fantastic event and a great addition to our collection of MouseAdventure memories!
Oh yeah, I am curious. I know no one was expected to (or did) er-verything, but I was wondering: what was the maximum possible score?
Founding member of MouseAdventure teams Ishmael, Sassy Sister sQuadron (SSQ), Mechanical Kingdom Explorers (MKE), Pineapple Whip Plunderers, The Tip Top Clubbers, the Passholder Poker Club, the Toon Travelers, Broadway Bound, and Once Upon A Dream!
3rd Place Basic - Card Games: Deuces Wild (Spring 2014)
Wouldn't it be 1,876?
A thru 10, minus the 2s = 180 x 4 suits = 720
J = 60 x 4 suits = 240
Q = 60 x 4 suits = 240
K = 80 x 4 suits = 320
eye spies = 5 x 13 possible = 65
trivia = 3 x 37 questions = 111
Deuces Wild = 160
Hidden quest = 20
Is there anything I'm leaving out? Were trivia really 3 points each or am I making that up?
Team "Club 34" - NOW MASTERS!
1st place Family in MouseAdventure Ready Player One (Spring 2015)
2nd place Family in MouseAdventure Card Games: Deuces Wild (Spring 2014)
1st place Family in MouseAdventure 365 (Fall 2013)
1st place Family in MouseAdventure Musical (Spring 2013) - top score in all of Basic!
Hopefully I won't boor too many people but after two weeks I finally have some thoughts to share:
The Disney MountainEars are super-stoked with our 2nd place finish!! We love the "too much to do" format and we multi-tasked well this time.
There were, of course, many small victories but two huge ones really stand out. More on those as we get there.
We started in DtD and (like most people have said) spent way too long there. We love the parks but not DtD so much and we don't know the area well at all. I hate to give any credit to the Hats team that had the little outburst in the ballroom before leaving but we should have done what they were suggesting - just pick up our materials in DtD then head into the parks. On the coin toss we took the two-coin option but got it on the first one.
We loved the DCA quests! Only points we missed were the darn gecko but we had no idea where to look so we didn't waste any time on it. The K quest was fun. We got lucky and stumbled on the eye chart by chance. The Q quest ('&' eye spy) provided us with a good laugh: we got coffee there the day before and noted all of the pictures on the wall thinking that would be good stuff for MouseAdventure. We even memorized the names of the Silver Lake Sisters. When we got the instruction half decoded and realized what they wanted we burst out laughing.
Huge victory #1 - During our long walks through DtD Jeff worked on the Deuces Wild quest. Shortly after we got into DCA he had completely solved the first part! We did not have to stand on the compass rose or turn however many degrees or go through all of the bricks eliminating lines of text from our sheet. Jeff had the next instruction figured out so that when we left DCA we just headed for the bike rack and took it from there! It was a fun, long, involved quest and we were very satisfied with our solve!
We did not have nearly as much time in Disneyland as we would have liked. We did the Masks suit first but skipped a couple of the lower card quests then turned in and got our face card quests. The folding one was fun and I was glad that my Sudoku solve got used for a second quest! We skipped the charades. Last Card Games we were the very first team to show up for the charades (no waiting!) but even then we had to wait while the Columbia backed out of its stall before the rafts could cross over. We were afraid of the wait this time and frankly we do not like the physical quests as much as we do paper and pencil puzzles that we can mull over and discuss and come back to if we think of something later. Then we headed straight to Dumbo to turn in our completely blank shield quests but on the way we solved the one about the clock in the Village Haus so we got that answer and then turned things in and got the shield face card quests. We skipped the Toon Park one and the Huey Dewey Decimal one but were going to tackle the K quest when Jeff finally solved the word search and we realized that we had to go back to the raft launch area. Then we had too little time to go anywhere we sat down to look things over and fill in trivia and EyeSpies.
Huge victory #2 - Jeff and Yvonne were reading over the K of shields quest and without tearing any shields off of our two sheets of paper we searched for names. While I was staring at the 2x3 grid it all of a sudden hit me that they were referring to the boxes in the Post Office in Toon Town. Jeff associated the numbers 1-6 with the shields they were printed on the back of and we found the same shields on various cards giving us the highest card and its position in the grid. Of course Mickey has box number one so we solved the whole thing without moving! We were ecstatic!
Being announced as the second place team was icing on the cake! We love MouseAdventure: the puzzles, the victories, spending time as a family doing something we love in a place that we love! The rest of my team stayed down in So Cal but after leaving the ballroom, I got in the car and drove the six hours back home to the Bay Area. My adrenaline was still pumping as I relived the whole day. The drive seemed like it only lasted a couple of minutes!
As always, the next MouseAdventure can't come too soon!
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