Radio 1 Big Weekend

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PERPLEX CITY, SEASON TWO
A million stories, yet to be told

Radio 1's Big Weekend Logo.PNG 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

Cork symbol.jpg

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.


Options:

Set # 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)

Map

Radio 1 Big Weeked Merged Map.jpg


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:

Bigsmallve5.jpg


Individual Map Pieces

Note: Complete listings of sets moved to map image pages


External Links

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