Many thanks to all players who submitted answers for Willow's fourth Shadowfist Puzzle Garden!
Here are the solutions:
Puzzle the First: Casting Call
Invincible Sword Princess, as a Cunning Eunuch Mastermind
Ziyi Zhang as Gao Zhang
Space Mercenary in a Funny Hat, as a Sinister Clergyman
Adam Baldwin as Reverend Adam Wither
Female Yakuza Mastermind, as a Corrupt Police Chief
Lucy Liu as Captain Liu
Beautiful Lifeguard, as a Kung Fu Conspirator
Carmen Electra as Carmen Zhou
Roguish Pirate Captain as a Guy Who Needs a Haircut
Johnny Depp as Johnny Badhair
Disappearing Super-Heroine, as a Laterally Reincarnated Scientist
Jessica Alba, as Jessica Ng
Full-Contact Archeologist, as a Mafia Leg-Breaker
Harrison Ford as “Hammer” Harrison
One Bad Mother, as a Whole Group of Bad Mothers
Samuel L. Jackson as The Jackson Gang
Various Sketch Comedy Characters, all as new Purist with his Hands Full.
Damon Wayans as Damon Winter
And posthumously featuring God, as a Cyborg Monkey
George Burns as Furious George
Puzzle the Second: Fifty-Two Pickup
0: Starting Power: 2
1: Turn Identity Chop Shop, give a Shamanistic Punks the Eunuch Designator.
2: Turn all your Eunuchs for the Imperial Boon to gain 4 power. You now have 6 power.
3: Play Gao Zhang. You now have no power.
4: Turn Gao Zhang for the Imperial Boon to gain 2 power. You now have 2 power.
5: Play LaGrange Four. You now have no power. You need two more sites to win.
6: Turn LaGrange Four, unturn Gao Zhang.
7: Play Infernal Pact. Toast your unturned Shamanistic Punks. Search your deck for the Ivory Goddess
8: Play Ivory Goddess on any of your characters for free, using Gao Zhang's ability. You now need one site to win.
9: Turn Mountain Fortress to increase Gao Zhang's fighting to 11.
10: Attack the Diamond Beach. After toughness, you do nine damage to the site. You win!
REMINDER: This was a duel, so you needed 6 sites to win!
Here are your official winners of Inner Kingdom Games' first Puzzle Garden Contest:
Casting Call:
1) Matt Wolff
2) James Gibson
3) David Kempe
Fifty-Two Pickup:
1) David Kempe
2) Jan Malina
3) Joey Ferreira
4) James Gibson
5) eldrich108@yahoo.com (no name listed in e-mail)
6) Brock Ritcey
7) Charles Soong
Special Kudos go out to Jan Malina for offering up two possible solutions for Fifty-Two Pickup, NEITHER OF WHICH WERE THE OFFICIAL ANSWER! Way to push the creative envelope!
Kudos also to David Kempe for the unexpected answer to Casting Call's ninth cast member: Joshua Meyers (of MADTV fame) as Joshua Norton (one would argue the S&SG character as new to the Secret War).
Thank you again for playing and good luck to everyone next time! I currently have addresses for Joey Ferreira and David Kempe. If your name is listed above as a winner, please send me one more e-mail with your address so that I can send you your promo prizes!
Cheers,
Daniel Griego