December 26, 2007

Effigiated Nonconstraint

Super Smash Brothers Brawl

I have come to the conclusion that Brawl is not, in fact, delayed. BestBuy hasn't replied to me yet (though it is their Boxing Week sale, so I imagine they are somewhat busy) but as nobody but them and Futureshop seem to think it is delayed, and they are not nearly as credible on the matter as Nintendo is, I assume they are mistaken. If the cruel reality is that they are just going to take a long time to ship my preorder, however, I am going to be very upset. Speaking of their Boxing Week sale, I am pretty mad at the lack of good video game deals. A few years ago, both Civilization 4 and Age of Empires 3 were $30 off, and ever since the video game deals have been getting progressively worse. Hopefully there will be an improvement next year.

Back on topic, the daily smash updates are finally starting to get good again. For a couple weeks before the break, there was update after update of random, useless, and boring parts of the game, and at one point, I didn't even bother checking the updates every morning before school! Fortunately, they have redeemed themselves recently with a few cool stages, songs, and assist trophies. I think my favorite from the past two and a half weeks are:

  • Waluigi as an assist trophy, mainly because he is holding a tennis racket! As Mario Tennis is my favorite Gamecube game (or maybe tied with SSBB), I especially liked this.
  • The stage Mario Circuit, mostly because I always liked Mario Kart (though it does seem similar to Mute City).
  • This song, because it was always my favorite Sonic theme.
You can read about them in more detail or check the new ones here.

A Cool Problem

Just for fun:
All the letters of the alphabet have been given a numerical value. The value of a word can be found by adding all of the values of the letters in the word. For instance, if o = 7, h = 1, s = 24, and j = 3, then Josh = 35. Find the values of Crusty, Presenter, and Carpenter, if the following are true:

Butter = 57.
Use = 27.
Crab = 13.
Peanut = Spray = 51.
Part = 37.
Base = 20.
Bran = 11.
Banana = 10.

Good luck! By the way, please don't post answers in a comment, so that others can solve it as well.

EDIT: All letters' values are all distinct integers greater than 0. If not, as Jon pointed out, there are infinitely many solutions.

1 comments:

Unknown said...

Be patient the game will arrive eventually. Just game on other stuff for the time being. Or build a snow fort!