PAPO Isolation O-Puzzler Champs
- Planner:
- Briana Steven
Puzzle answers and final results
Congratulations and well done PAPO members for an excellent Isolation Champs! This has been great fun to put on for you all, and wonderful to see so many people taking part. Thanks especially to Joolz Moore for taking care of the communications and website management. Thanks also to everyone who sent me something to let me know they were enjoying the puzzles or courses, and to everyone who let us know about technical faults so we could fix them. Finally a begrudging thanks to all those who pointed out mistakes in puzzles, so next time I can improve and make them better.
The results of the relay competition are attached just below, congrats to the winning team, the PAPO Speedsters. The overall puzzle results are also attached, and congratulations to the Grand Ultimate Puzzle Master, Tane Cambridge!
If anyone has any ideas for other puzzles or activities, or if you would like another competition run let me know, I would be happy to organise this again!
Stay safe and keep up the virtual training,
Puzzle & O technique challenges
Each day of the Easter weekend, there will be an orienteering puzzle, where you can submit your answer to be in the running for the title of Ultimate Orienteering Puzzle Master.
There will also be a route choice challenge, much like World of O’s Route to O-season or Route to Christmas, except using some of our cool NZ maps which rarely feature in the other two. There will be a google drive link where you can submit a photo/screenshot/snip of your chosen route, so you can see other peoples routes.
Everyday we have been running virtual champs in Running Wild
Races are now run virtually, as a Running Wild race. Running Wild is an online route-drawing program where you click to draw the best route, under time pressure. The link to the website with instructions on how to play, the link to the long champs and the password required to draw your course are below. If you still crave the physical challenge of orienteering, why not try going for a local and compliant run around your neighbourhood, or run intervals in your driveway before racing inside to your computer.
Stay Safe.
Club captain, Briana Steven, PAPO orienteering club
Day 4 of PAPO’s Isolation Champs
The puzzle for today is a good old-fashioned Quiz! Entirely on the subject of PAPO, either get your memory into gear, or get ready to delve into the history of NZ’s greatest club. Open-book allowed because I have no way of controlling it so hopefully you learn something new if you have to google it!
Link to Quiz here
The routechoice challenge is leg 4-5 back in the North Island at Smedley in Hawkes Bay. Famous for the extremely toasty 2013 Oceania Races, if you don’t have your head in the game you could end up off a cliff in the river gully, next to a dead cow… Please feel free to upload a picture with your route on it to this google drive folder here
Champs relay
If you want to run the relay, please email me at briana.banana888@gmail.com ASAP before you race the Relay Course with your names and regular Nationals grades (i.e. W12, M21E, W60), and I will make up some teams for today. The times from each of your teammates will be added to find the winning PAPO relay team!
The relay format will still be the same, and the three Running Wild times from teammates will be taken. As we are virtual running without actual physical constraints, this Running Wild relay race will be in a mystery location on an exciting map. The teams will stay unknown until tomorrow when the puzzle winner is also announced, so make sure you put your best foot forward as you won’t know if you are the leading team or not when you start the race!
Relay teams: If you want to run the relay, please email me at briana.banana888@gmail.com ASAP before you race the Relay Course with your names and regular Nationals grades (i.e. W12, M21E, W60), and I will make up some teams for today. The times from each of your teammates will be added to find the winning PAPO relay team!
Instructions here
Warm-up here
Relay Course here:
Password: paporelay
Welcome to Day 3 of PAPO’s Isolation Champs
Map guess
The puzzle for today is a map guessing challenge. Do you count yourself as an experienced orienteer? Have you run every single PAPO event? Do you have a keen memory for maps? Using the form linked just below, write in the map name (or location) for all 12 maps, but beware they aren’t all easy. Do as many as you can, as it is entirely possible no one can guess them all! See the maps and fill in the answers here or try the link below:
Route choice
The route choice challenge is a hard one from the map 2000 ft above the worry level, Naseby. Leg 9-10 crosses over multiple distinct areas, and the large track network through the forest gives plenty of options. Please feel free to upload a picture with your route on it to this google drive folder here
Naseby:
Running Wild long event
Races are now running virtually, as a Running Wild race. Running Wild is an online route-drawing program where you click to draw the best route, under time pressure. The link to the website with instructions on how to play, the link to the long champs and the password required to draw your course are below. If you still crave the physical challenge of orienteering, why not try going for a local and compliant run around your neighbourhood, or run intervals in your driveway before racing inside to your computer.
Instructions here
Long Course here
Short Course here
Elite Course here
Password: papolong
Welcome to Day 2 of PAPO’s Isolation O Puzzler Champs
The puzzle for today is a spot-the-difference on a popular orienteering map and is attached below as a pdf with two maps. In order to draw on the differences, use an application like MS Paint, iOS Preview, Snip tool, or Google Drive Drawing. Submit your answer by uploading a picture of the differences circled/marked/starred on the original using the form here.
Spot the difference puzzle:
Route choice
The route choice challenge is a ghost from the past, on the Dalethorpe map from Club Nationals in 2013. Leg 6-7 over the big spurs and valleys in the forest has multiple options, and could be different depending on the individual runner. Please feel free to upload a picture with your route on it to this google drive folder here.
Dalethorpe map:
Running Wild route choices
While we had the best intentions, in an effort to ensure we are all staying local, PAPO is unable to provide any more Maprun/UsynligO courses over the Easter weekend.
However an event that does comply with the guidelines is a Running Wild race, which uses 2DReRun to time you choosing your route around a course. The middle/long/relay courses will now be available for you to complete virtually. If you still crave the physical challenge of orienteering, why not try going for a local and compliant run around your neighbourhood, or run intervals in your driveway before racing inside to your computer.
Long course Link: http://3drerun.worldofo.com/2d/runningwild.php?anid=8141
Short Course Link: http://3drerun.worldofo.com/2d/runningwild.php?anid=8143
Password: papomiddle
PAPO’s Isolation Day One puzzle:
Puzzle answers
Friday Logic Puzzle
|
Orienteer |
Error |
Shoes |
Time |
|
Joe |
parallel |
salomon |
56 |
|
Chris |
Stuck in gorse |
Inov8 |
68 |
|
Tim |
drinks chat |
Nvii |
110 |
|
Tane |
got distracted |
sneakers |
54 |
|
Nick |
shoes broke |
Icebugs |
62 |
Saturday Spot the Difference
A pdf is attached showing the 20 differences circled. Unknown to me at the time I made the original pdf, the two images were cropped differently, and one of the north-lines was very faint in one picture. These were not the intended differences so I am very sorry to those who circled them in lieu of other ones.
Spot-the-Difference-Answers2.pdf