The Cooperstown Grid: Winner and Solution

First off, I want to thank everyone who checked out the contest, especially those of you who tried solving the puzzle. Here’s how it worked:
The 9×9 grid was actually comprised of 9 3×3 grids with letters that, when rearranged, spelled out names of baseball Hall of Famers. In 6 of these grids, the letters spelled [...]

CONTEST: The Cooperstown Grid (Big HOF Prize!)

THE CONTEST HAS ENDED. “THE JAW” FIGURED OUT THE CORRECT ANSWER, NOLAN RYAN. DETAILS WILL BE POSTED LATER TONIGHT/TOMORROW. FOR NOW, SEE IF YOU CAN FIGURE OUT HOW HE DID IT. CONGRATS JAW!
Last month, when I created the Crack This! contest, it was far more successful than I had anticipated. It seems that there are [...]

Crack This! WINNER AND SOLUTION!

Well, not even 24 hours after I unveiled the code, we have our winner! The winner was Scott of Hand Collated!!!. I’m not sure if I made the code hard enough but I didn’t want to make it so hard that nobody would get it for days on end. Anyway, here’s the solution to my [...]

CONTEST: Crack This! (A and G Prizes)

Alright ladies and gents, here it is…my latest, greatest, and most complex contest yet. It’s no secret that “Gintermania” has been running wild all over the blogosphere lately with the countless breaks, Gint-A-Cuffs posts, and even the unraveling of the 2009 Ginter Code (hats off to those guys). However, now lies a new challenge.
When Mike [...]

UD Decade 1970’s Contest!

In the previous post, I mentioned that the next box break would be 2001 UD Decade 1970’s and that there would be a little contest involved. Here is is:
Inserted into every one of these (image courtesy of SC Central)…

is one of these (Image courtesy of this auction):

Now the rules of the contest:
1. Your job will [...]