{"id":1443,"date":"2013-05-26T09:26:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T16:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2022-08-16T13:54:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T20:54:23","slug":"sunday-surprise-5-seeing-stars-and-a-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/sunday-surprise-5-seeing-stars-and-a-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Surprise #5 – Seeing Stars (and a contest)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s surprise marks the occasion of Grant Fikes’ 26th birthday. Grant has written a surprise puzzle hunt<\/a>-style puzzle that will solve to a two word answer. This is likely more challenging than our earlier “Word Search”<\/a> surprise on April 1st, but we hope it is enjoyable to those who give it a shot while celebrating Grant’s birthday.<\/p>\n

Note:<\/b> the first 26 solvers (or all those who solve it within a week if fewer than 26 solve it by then) will be entered into a random drawing for a copy of Grant’s “Battle of LITS” board game.<\/p>\n

\"Surprise<\/p>\n

PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

or solve online<\/a> (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools)<\/p>\n

Answer String:<\/b> Enter the two word answer in all capital letters, with a single space between words.<\/p>\n

Solution:<\/b> PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

Update (6\/2\/13):<\/b> There have been 27 solvers in the week since this puzzle posted and all of those names will be placed into a drawing sometime shortly. Watch here for further updates.<\/p>\n

**While this was initially not a numbered Grant opus, we are calling it #48 for our site count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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