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Stats: Energy Equals MC Squared

Total solves: 57
Total guesses: 124
Hints asked: 16
Teams unlocked: 124
TeamIncorrect guessesUnlock time (EST)Time to solveSolve time (EST)
the water boys01h35m
Chronic Second Place12h8m
Puzzle Paloozers02h9m
Rocq-hard Compilers02h32m
Insufficient Novelty and the Unsurprising Results02h33m
Smoge03h4m
Huzzle Punt03h15m
Three Geese in a Trench Coat03h22m
geese geese go13h41m
Nachos for Table 2613h56m
DEATH04h25m
Bread Tastes Better Than Key24h33m
Cohomological Purity Control04h54m
The No-armed Bandits05h4m
turtle05h14m
Imagine losing15h25m
Project Fail Mary05h34m
Space Oddities05h57m
Platypus Galaxy06h33m
blues clues06h35m
Toucan Samanthas07h6m
The Large Intestines47h16m
seehooney07h23m
markissocool07h35m
Hibehnrhx07h50m
Metal Upas17h55m
CleverTeamName (Redux)^218h18m
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A Battalion of Axolotls08h50m
ln(-1/i)09h55m
quizton johnston010h23m
Hi Gang014h13m
5 Netherite Ingots022h13m
Sherlocked and Loaded025h50m
Hanoo😭Street126h36m
Three Witches028h25m
The Defectives128h46m
Mecha Geese230h25m
Fellowship of the Bus132h50m
what the frick034h16m
Jason Bell Fan club436h30m
tile touchers036h45m
The Paralarvas1047h40m
Omega150h47m
Not Another Einstein053h2m
Dino Snacks053h35m
big coqs160h6m
QF@PI374h5m
wait176h50m
We are Explorers.382h32m
2 shorts and a tall13100h29m
Eulerian Pathfinders0117h28m
Spin Coaters3125h43m
Adroit Brilliant Dangerous Aliance0150h27m
Trivially Challenged7151h57m
PteRedactles0169h53m
Cobra Kai0171h3m