Archive through August 29, 2000

The ClubHouse: Big Brother 2000: General - Archives: Challenges: The Puzzle Challenge: The weekly challenge: Archive through August 29, 2000

Zachsmom

Sunday, August 27, 2000 - 12:29 am Click here to edit this post

MrBlueHair..

if your friend was female I would have asked if she might have been pregnant at the time with all the fainting..;0)

I also had a male friend who was Red/Green color blind.. had all these tags in his clothes .. that way when he did his laundry he knew what would go with what.. I have no idea if he could build a puzzle or not... we were interest in other things at the time..;0) If George is color blind.. does he ask about what goes with what as far as colors are concerned?? does he have tags in his clothes?? judging by some of the outfits he wears..this might be true??

Battlestar

Sunday, August 27, 2000 - 12:33 am Click here to edit this post

HEY !!!!! If George is colour blind----is that why he keeps saying his hair is blue---when it has actually turned green?? And when it was blue---how did he know if it was cool or not?

When he first met Brittany---did he have any idea what colour her hair was

Captcurmudgeon

Sunday, August 27, 2000 - 06:05 am Click here to edit this post

I'm color-blind (you may be also; check out http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.html ) but didn't know about it until I was out of high school. I and my two brothers have a kind called "blue-green confusion" that is common among males and comes over on the chromosome you get from your mother.

It is not particularly disabling. I had no trouble passing the color blindness test for the Navy -- very practical: you identify ship's running lights in the dark. But some titrations in college chemistry were difficult. One of my brothers is a spare-time painter and has had some sales and won prizes in competition. For us, traffic lights look red, yellow, and green but we often can't see the point of plaids.

(Our father has the best color vision in the city and people used to come to him to match colors when they were decorating. He's also a picture puzzle fan. None of us are.)

So, George's usefulness may or may not be hampered. Still, I think he's copping an excuse as per usual.

Scuttle

Sunday, August 27, 2000 - 07:37 am Click here to edit this post

About the bait-and-switch challenge. I read on one of the boards, somewhere, about a challenge that happened in... the UK version? Dutch version? I forget which.

Anyway, the HGs were told that they had to learn some new skill. It was things like hula-hooping, juggling, double-dutch jump rope, something along those lines. They thought that they would have to perform them at the end of the week, logically enough.

And they did, but the problem was, that wasn't ALL of the challenge. They had to perform them while other HGs were working on some tedious math problem. The length of time they had to work out the math problem was how long all of them could, sequentially, perform their newly learned tricks. So one person would juggle, and when they messed up the next person would start hula hooping, and so on down the list.

I seem to remember that they lost this challenge.

Rufusgriswold

Sunday, August 27, 2000 - 07:57 am Click here to edit this post

I was amused that when I posted a comment about the puzzle challenge right after it started, my post was removed. I had simply suggested that the picture they were assembling might be a picture of George holding up his Save Our Hero sign. Apparently, the moderator thought I was George bashing and removed it. I was offering a legitimate suggestion, based on the way the show is going. Of course, CBS/Endemol have not demonstrated any great cleverness so far, but, honestly, wouldn't that have been an interesting way to provoke controversy? The HGs would be forced to continue working on the puzzle even after they had finally figured out what George was doing?

Lisat

Sunday, August 27, 2000 - 08:08 am Click here to edit this post

Rufus - That would be a good idea.

I also thought it might be fun if the puzzle showed all the hg's sitting on the couch except this weeks banished one. They sure would be in a hurry to finish it.

I know...the voting isn't over yet.

It was just an impossible thought.

Rufusgriswold

Sunday, August 27, 2000 - 10:02 am Click here to edit this post

When you think about it, a jigsaw puzzle really is a very bad idea. People working on a puzzle rarely want to chat with their colleagues, as it requires a certain amount of concentration. Watching people say, "there? no, maybe there? darn! wait, how about here?" can get a bit tiresome fast!

Maddie

Sunday, August 27, 2000 - 10:07 am Click here to edit this post

One thing about this challenge is that it is in one place and at times, all can work on it together. Kind of the opposite of the dance challenge were it was 2 at a time and everyone else was sleeping. It seemed like a lot of separation last week.

Blackbeard

Sunday, August 27, 2000 - 02:21 pm Click here to edit this post

I know I've seen it dozens of times on various news sites and websites, but now I can't find it...

Does anyone have a link to the picture they used for the puzzle, the one of all 10 standing at the door before they went inside on day 1?

Therlin

Sunday, August 27, 2000 - 03:30 pm Click here to edit this post

go to bigbrother2000.com - go to vote for the most popular and the pic will appear in the pop up box.

And while you are there, vote for anyone but George.

Caffinebuzz

Sunday, August 27, 2000 - 03:36 pm Click here to edit this post

They have already had to pull at least 1 piece of the puzzle out of Chiquita's mouth.

I wonder if they are re-thinking the 50% wager?

Max

Sunday, August 27, 2000 - 03:55 pm Click here to edit this post

Too late to reconsider now!! :) Guess they better start keeping a closer eye on the pug!

Laurie

Sunday, August 27, 2000 - 11:02 pm Click here to edit this post

HG have just discovered they are missing pieces --alot of pieces. Eddie is thinking the reward to the challenge is more puzzle pieces. Oh my, guess BB could really be playing with them on this one.

Kiari

Monday, August 28, 2000 - 11:26 am Click here to edit this post

Out of nearly 5000 puzzle pieces it's almost impossible to not loose even one piece! They are bound to lose this one. Imagine the frantic run arround looking for the final few pieces! Could get hectic.

Marysafan

Monday, August 28, 2000 - 11:32 am Click here to edit this post

Best response to George when he said he couldn't help with the puzzle because he was color blind...goes to Cassandra:

"There's a whole pile of black pieces there George, you can work on those."

Way to call him on it...Cassandra cuts him no slack. In the picture Mega is wearing a black suit... that should keep him busy for a while.

Nance

Monday, August 28, 2000 - 11:46 am Click here to edit this post

pump the pugs....stomach or the hgs have no chance of winning this challenge.
no doubt the pug has been caught 3 different times with pieces in his mouth.

Marysafan

Monday, August 28, 2000 - 12:02 pm Click here to edit this post

Puzzle talk from this morning:

Curtis to Jamie: "Could you have been waving? It would make sense if you were waving, because I have this big arm here..."

Cassandra and Jamie bust out laughing...

Curtis: "I mean it's not a big arm...it's quite small actually...very petite....yes it's so small I can hardly even see it."

Cassandra: "Curtis, that sounded so bad."

Voyeur

Monday, August 28, 2000 - 02:08 pm Click here to edit this post

If it's the same picture from the Big Brother website, both Jamie and George were wearing very similar colored clothing. Oops, Curtis just figured out some of the pink was George. From a momentary shot on the live feeds, it looks like it is the pic from the BB site.

Chixdigeddie

Tuesday, August 29, 2000 - 10:18 am Click here to edit this post

does it to like they are going to have this put together by friday noon to you guys? i don't think they even have all the border in place yet and isn't that the easiest part? so far i just don't see it happening

Laurie

Tuesday, August 29, 2000 - 07:57 pm Click here to edit this post

Curtis says, no way the puzzle will be done. It doesn't look good. There goes 50% of the grocery money.

But then again, I was the one who thought nothing could have been worse than the dance marathon...

Caffinebuzz

Tuesday, August 29, 2000 - 08:11 pm Click here to edit this post

Right now half the HGs are asleep and the other half are outside playing cards.

Funny thing is that Jamie, Curtis, & George were just complaining that there was no food in the house.

Laurie

Tuesday, August 29, 2000 - 08:22 pm Click here to edit this post

Caffine, I know it is wild isn't it. Have you seen how much of that puzzle they have left to do and a Live show tomorrow in which there will be endless primping... about 50 hours left to work on it and they are playing cards or sleeping.

I guess they will regret it next week.

Jade888

Tuesday, August 29, 2000 - 08:29 pm Click here to edit this post

Are they already missing pieces because of the dog? Did they count the pieces when they received the puzzle?
Been too busy to watch as a rival radio station wants to banish all of the guest and they hired their own small plane and banner read...
BANISH ALL OF THE HG

Laurie

Tuesday, August 29, 2000 - 08:34 pm Click here to edit this post

Jade, I always enjoy your posts!

They have caught the dog with several pieces in her mouth... but don't know that she actually ripped on to shreds yet.

They did not count all the puzzle pieces. At one point George offered to and they told him no.

As to your rival station, I would guess it is safe to say they are not thrilled with any of the HGs or the show.

Jade888

Tuesday, August 29, 2000 - 08:45 pm Click here to edit this post

So I have been busy all day long...just to one up them I found my own pilot and I plan on having a different banner each and everweek fly over Waikiki Beach...is that not to funny. It started out as a joke because I refused to go out to dinner one night as I had to get home to watch Survivor and BB and now it has become a running joke between a certain DJ on a rival station. Just to get to me yesterday he had a small plane fly with banish all og the HG. Well...I am going to tell folks to banish him for making fun of me and to listen to my show as I have all of the best celeberities in Hawaii on my show...ha ha!