Ludiquest 2 - Last chance!

I am posting the Ludiquest puzzle one last time. Whoever sends the proper one-word answer to the correct e-mail address will win a new copy of Vegas Showdown or Hollywood Blockbuster (your choice). The puzzle has several steps and you will learn the e-mail address as you progress through the puzzle. I know at least one person has gotten extremely close to solving it. The hints I've previously revealed are included below the puzzle and I've added a new one. If this isn't solved by Saturday, I'll start revealing steps until someone gets it. Good luck!

With Roman count "as 102"

You’ll read the writing on the wall,

But you will need to change your view

Before you make the proper call.

57 76 57 48 57 55 57 57 57 56

Hints:

Where does c = 100?

Where does 1000001 = 65 = A?

When does pi = 180?

Where does L = 5?

The last word will be found by location, not by sound

Quick Update

I'm impatient to retire the the Ludiquest so someone needs to solve it. I'll do one last post of it and try to link it in new places to get some new eyes to look at it and someone to solve it. If that doesn't work, I'll post pieces of the solution until someone gets it. After this, I won't be posting new Ludiquests unless I can figure out some way to structure them so they wrap up more quickly. Instead, I will post a game review every Monday morning, beginning with Fairy Tale this coming Monday.

Games played this week: The Bucket King, Ra, Shogun, Fairy Tale, St. Peterburg, California, Battlelore (x2). Shogun and BattleLore were both new to me and both were pretty good. I will definitely have to try both of them again. Game count is now at 63.

Game's I've played since Saturday, etc.

It's been a furious few days of boardgaming. I've played Aqueduct, Nottingham (x2), Pit, Fairy Tale (x2), Vegas Showdown, Saga and Tongiaki. This brings me to 55 games for the year.

Inspired by a challenge on Brenda Brathwaite's web site, I was struck by an idea for a card game about assembling adventuring parties and matching their skills to dungeons/quests. Also, yesterday I practically completed a design for a new card-drafting game. When I will have time to develop these, I have no idea.

I did finally complete the newest prototype of Cattle Baron and got the chance to test it. It seemed to be a fair improvement, but I feel like the final few fence placements are anticlimactic since the board is usually too cluttered for them to be useful. I need to experiment with a few possible approaches to fix this.

Oops, has it been a month already?

I’ve been a bad blogger again. It’s been almost a month without a post and that’s no good. Work has been pretty busy, but really it’s just my lack of discipline. I think I’ve put myself in the mindset that I need something “important” enough to write about, but that’s not really the right mentality for a blog. So, I’ve written myself a little list of fun or interesting (hopefully) things that have happened over the last month, and I’ll be making several posts over the next week.

By my count, I’ve only played 10 boardgames since I last posted, so my 2008 game count is woefully behind the pace at 45. I don’t have my list with me, but some of the games I can recall playing recently were California (x3), Starcraft the board game, Mystery of the Abbey, Race for the Galaxy, Ra, and Ticket to Ride.

I now have a fancy video card to go with my new PC and 22” LCD monitor, so I’ve been spending more time on PC games over the last month. I expect to add some PC/video game posts in the future.

Finally, Ludiquest 2 still hasn’t been fully solved and I intend to remedy that in one way or another. I intend to try to get more people to attempt it. If that doesn’t work, I’ll just start revealing how it is solved step by step until someone finds the answer. Still up for grabs is a copy of Vegas Showdown to the winner.