The Secret Seven

This thread marks the initiation of my long awaited "Riddle for the Realms III", aptly named The Secret Seven.

As much as I would love to have anyone who wanted to join this contest to be able to try their hand at it, I'm afraid that the nature of this little puzzle has limited me to only 27 contestants. The reason for this limited number is that I have structured this puzzle as being physically interactive.

My previous puzzles have involved gif, bmp, and jpg images, but this time I will be using real cards, prepared and bundled and shipped out to each contestant. This collection of carefully crafted clues will lead to the solution of the puzzle and the winners of the contest will contact me, and claim their prizes.

That's right. I said PRIZES! The first three people to provide me with the proper solution, will have the rights to calim one of the following prizes for their efforts:

- Twelve (12) packs of MHG (Possibly substituted with DLG if it takes long enough to solve)
- One (1) custom comissioned playmat, purchased from CasanovaPoohs website, NestedEgg.
- Six (6) packs of Marvel or DC Gallery Packs.

(First winner takes first pick, and so on.)


So, now I send a shout out to all the people who have "pre-registered" for my Riddle. I give all 27 of you one week to send me a PM that contains your Name, Mailing address, and consent to abide by all rules stipulated in the upcoming contest. (I will be sending out a letter with the cards, that will outline all of the rules.)

IF any of the original 27 has NOT replied to me by November 17th, at 9pm PST, I will remove their name from the list, and their slot will be open to the first person to contact me after I have made the announcement of their removal from the game.

Below is a list of names for all 27 contestants, and I will be PMing them myself as a reminder to sign up.

I wish each of them good luck.


Italics = Envelope Received

0) Twanbon
1) TheLord
2) Hank McCoy
3) TCCJoe
4) SpadeoftheAce
5) Chroniclebowski
6) JazzWitherspoon
7) Daemyann
8) Vash 125
9) Ziggy
10) Brokenbyme
11) Nightwingdoom
12) Latuki Joe
13) Sepharoth
14) Blink133
15) Pez Halo
16) Spideysean102
17) Pi_3.14159...
18) i3ullseye
19) GdayBloke
20) LifeMage
21) JediMario
22) Terminexchet
23) Cool Kurt
24) Gambit2816
25) Themightytruk
26) Who Dat?

Quick update:

The rules of the contest will not violate any international, federal, provincal, or state laws, and will not violate religious beliefs.

Can I join? It seems like there's one short for 27 but I'm a moron.

Edit: 0 is a number?

I was going to post the same thing then i saw the 0 :(.

It's okay we can be morons together!

Seriously, who starts a list off with 0! 0 denotes like... nothing. So technically, the person who has 0 is nothing.

i don't think making fun of the person who gets to decide if you can do the contest is a good idea. Now for a little bragging

iiiiIIIIIiiiii'm on the liiiiIIIIiiiist
iiiiIIIIIiiiii'm on the liiiiIIIIiiiist
iiiiIIIIIiiiii'm on the liiiiIIIIiiiist
iiiiIIIIIiiiii'm on the liiiiIIIIiiiist

I'm not making fun of him.

I'm making fun of me for being stupid and not noticing the first person on the list was denoted with a 0.

However, this led me to wonder: Is this a cultural thing? To most people begin their lists with number zero? I personally don't. Ozz doesn't either. However, this begs the question: Should I start doing so?

Maybe its a clue.

If you peoples paid attention to the first "recruitment" thread, you'd see that I put Twanbon there because he lit the fire under my butt to get this thing going, and I wanted to reserve a spot for him at the top of the list.

He took forever to sign up, that I decided to put him as #0, instead of renumbering everyone else.

I hereby announce that I will put NO CLUES online. Any clues you need will be sent to you.

SWEETNESS!!!!!!!!!

PM is on the way my good sir. (and soon to be my prize!)/ arrogance

I just might start doing so . When my wife ask if shes my number 1 girl i can honestly say yea, Then think to myself of my hot number 0 girl.

I like to think of my numbering system as starting with -2.

I'm wearing pants.


... Seriously, I just wanted to contribute to the thread.
... and wearing pants is a good start.

Wow... I find it incredible that someone would go out of their way to provide something intriguing and fun like this. I wish I had seen something about this sooner, I'd have loved to be involved.

Kudos to you, and good luck everyone!

Rep'd. I will be here at 9 on the 17th...here's hoping some people don't respond.