Radio 1 Big Weekend

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At BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend, players found and matched symbols to try and stop Cyrus Quinton of the Third Power from launching the Neural Override device.

Symbols

Cyrus Quinton placed symbols around the event to aid 3P agents with the placement of the Neural Override device transmitters.

The symbols are actually cards in a large game of Set, matching them and entering the code-words into the Silburn-Griggs website would provide a map piece, depending on the type of set made.

List of symbols

Word	Number	Colour	Shape	Fill	Link/Source
Flag	1	Blue	Circle	Half	Paul [1] [2]
Lynx	2	Red	Square	None	Paul [3] [4]
Arch	2	Blue	Circle	None	Paul & SB
Rice	3	Yellow	Square	Solid	SB & Paul [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
Frog	1	Red	Circle	Half	Paul [10] [11] [12]
Wine	3	Blue	Square	Solid	Paul [13] [14]
Tree	3	Red	Circle	Hollow	Paul [15]
Fish	1	Blue	Triangle	Hollow	Paul [16] [17]
Nail	3	Yellow	Circle	Hollow	Paul [18] [19]
Tank	1	Red	Triangle	Solid	Paul
Scum	1	Yellow	Circle	Half	Paul
Book	3	Red	Square	Hollow	Paul [20][21] & SB
Hall	1	Yellow	Square	Solid	Paul [22]
Junk	1	Blue	Square	Solid	Paul [23] [24]
Zinc	1	Red	Triangle	Hollow	Paul [25]
Dodo	1	Blue	Triangle	Solid	Paul [26][27][28][29]
Yoyo	1	Yellow	Square	Half	Paul [30][31]
Taxi	2	Blue	Triangle	Solid	SB & Paul [32][33]
Lamb	2	Yellow	Square	None	SB
Cork	3	Red	Square	Solid	SB & Paul [34]
Wife	2	Blue	Circle	Solid	SB & Paul [35][36]
Exam	2	Yellow	Triangle	Solid	SB & Paul [37][38]
Tick	2	Yellow	Square	Solid	SB & Paul [39]
Cave	2	Red	Circle	Solid	SB & Paul [40] [41] [42]
Mead	2	Red	Circle	Hollow	SB & Paul [43] [44] [45]
Goal	3	Red	Triangle	Hollow	SB & Paul [46] [47]
View	1	Red	Square	Half	SB & Paul
Four	2	Yellow	Triangle	Solid	SB & Paul [48] [49]
Dump	1	Yellow	Triangle	Solid	SB & Paul [50][51]
Sack	3	Blue	Circle	Hollow	SB & Paul [52] [53]
Pawn	3	Blue	Triangle	Hollow	SB & Paul [54][55]
Hall	1	Yellow	Square	Solid	SB
Quad	2	Yellow	Circle	Hollow	SB
Sink	3	Yellow	Triangle	Full	SB
Ramp	2	Blue	Triangle	None	SB
Moth	1	Red	Square	Hollow	Paul [56][57]
Vase	1	Blue	Square	Half
Jack	2	Yellow	Square	Gradient	Guessed word to unlock puzzle piece, determined from deduction.
Found on Day 2:
Rock	1	Red	Triangle	Half	Hawk

Options:

Word	Number	Colour	Shape	Fill	Link/Source
---	1 2 3	Blue Red Yellow	Circle Square Triangle	None Half Solid	SB: _SilentlyBroken and friends via IRC from event Paul: People at the event, via Paul Denchfield's flickr (including link) Hawk: Hawk and friends via IRC from event

Map

Morbus discovered that the dots (based on Paul's 'Chasing Dots' blog post) create nearly perfect triangles. MasterCheese noticed that the dots are only used once in each triangle. Davermouse put together the following:

Individual Map Pieces

Note: Complete listings of sets moved to map image pages

• Map Pieces Found
• 

  Set #1
  Match colour and shape

• 

  Set #2
  Match number, shape and fill

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  Set #3
  Match colour and fill

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  Set #4
  Match colour

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  Set #5
  Match number and fill

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  Set #6
  Match colour, shape and fill

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  Set #7
  No matching features

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  Set #8
  Match number and shape

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  Set #9
  Match number

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  Set #10
  Match number and colour

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  Set #11
  Match shape and fill

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  Set #12
  Match shape

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  Set #13
  Match fill

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  Set #14
  Match number, colour and fill

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  Set #15
  Match number, colour and shape

External Links

• Official Website
• Symbol Entry Page
• Wikimedia News Item

References

• All 19-MAY-2007 entries on Paul Denchfield's blog
• Violet Underground blog entry: Angel Hunting

Season 2, Chapter: Hot Water Season 2 started out with a request by Violet to investigate her plumbing issues, and has lead us to pick up on a weird trail, currently in progress. When the third power issues warnings about you, you know you are in Hot Water. Related Topics: Perplex City Post | Apolyton Institute | Neural Override device | Silburn-Griggs | Frozen Indigo Angel | Radio 1 Big Weekend | Paul Denchfield | Cyrus Quinton