Nerd Quiz
On Friday evening we will have our third Nerd Quiz. Please pick some friends to build teams of three –and win some prizes. Best team picks first, then second team, then third team. You may enter as a team of One or Two, but this will be more difficult, and you will still only get one prize per person.
The Nerd Quiz will feature 50 questions about nerd stuff, like movies, tv series, music, comics, some regular trivia and some specific web and/or Drupal knowledge. The quiz is supposed to be hard. You can earn a maximum of 50 points. The teams managed an average of 29 points in the previous quizzes.
Have a look at the Nerd Quizzes for DrupalCamp Ruhr 2018 (46 MB) and DrupalCamp Ruhr 2023 (68 MB). (The quizzes only needed to work on my laptop, so these are non-responsive, non-optimized Desktop versions. Navigate with the arrow keys.)
The Nerd Quiz will be in English.
The prizes
Strange Code: Esoteric Languages That Make Programming Fun Again
One for the programmers
Strengthen your overall coding skills by exploring the wonderful, wild, and often weird world of esoteric languages (esolangs).
Strange Code starts with a dive into the underlying history of programming, covering the early computer-science concepts, like Turing machines and Turing completeness, that led to the languages we use today. It then explores the realm of “atypical” programming languages, introducing you to the out-of-the-box thinking that comes from these unusual approaches to coding.
Later chapters address the even more unusual esolangs, nearly all of which are like nothing you’ve ever seen. Finally, author Ron Kneusel helps you develop and use two entirely new programming languages. You may not apply these languages in your day job, but this one-of-a-kind book will motivate you to think differently about what it means to express thought through code, while discovering the far-flung boundaries of programming.
Unlock! Secret Adventures
Your typical Escape Room, 3 different scenarios, 1-6 players, Ages 10+
A Nodeside Story: A thick smoke lingers over the region. Another dirty trick of Noside? Stop him before it's too late.
Tombstone Express: The train transports a precious package and you have a hunch that this trip will hardly be restful.
The Adventures of Oz: Rediscover the Wonderful Land of Oz! Visit its Wizard and challenge the Wicked Witch of the West!
MicroMacro: Crime City
For Board Game fans, Ages 12+ , 1-4 Players, Spiel des Jahres / Game of the Year 2021.
Together, the players solve 16 tricky criminal cases by determining motives, finding evidence and convicting the perpetrators. Deductive talent is important in order to unravel everything riddle
Top 250 Movie Bucket List Scratch Poster XXL
One for the movie lovers.
For all film fans who want to enrich their life through the most beautiful, imaginative, romantic, moving and exciting moments in film history, we have now created the ultimate scratch map film posters. Unique in both the sheer size and in the selection: With the extra large XXL dimensions of 100 x 45 cm (approximately 40 x 18 inches) on thick, laminated poster paper, coated with the best available rubber paint and an elaborate selection of the 250 best films of all time, we put all other film posters in the shade.
LOK
Discover a vast unknown world and learn its cryptic language through more than 90 word-search puzzles!
LOK is a critically acclaimed book of mind-bending word-search puzzles. The goal of each puzzle is to find Lok keywords and use their special effects to black out all cells in a grid. On top of that, you must also figure out most of the rules by yourself, deducing them from the carefully crafted sequence of more than 90 puzzles, contained in the main storyline, 2 expansions and many off-page enigmas. The result is a deep and rewarding experience with surprising twists and insights.
A puzzle book (104 pages, A6 format)
+ transparent plastic sheet
English language
ABDEC
Decipher the long lost Abdec textbook through more than 70 mind-blowing and page-transcending puzzles.
Abdec is a forgotten textbook about the writing system of the weird and elusive little "Abb" creatures. Their typography resembles devilishly difficult packing puzzles. Due to a fire accident that burnt important pages in the book - the last remaining Abdec book in the world, which was also scanned for this reissue - players need to figure out how the Abdec writing system works completely on their own.
Winner of the "Best Paper Puzzle 2023" Thinky Award!
A puzzle book (88 pages, A6 format)
+ transparent plastic sheet
English language
Workworkwork
Learn the ancient art of construction and build the universe through more than 100 brain-twisting logic puzzles!
Workworkwork is a futuristic book of block building challenges. Bend and solder the core fabric of the space with the help of diligent little workers. Start with simple path-finding problems and quickly progress to impossible foldings of the physical plane - through the mixture of out-of-box realisations and pure logical deductions.
A puzzle book (130 pages, A6 format)
+ transparent plastic sheet
English language
Note: At this point in time, DHL has managed to lose the paket. Looks like I have to replace this prize. Shame.
William Shakespeare Punches A Friggin' Shark and/or Other Stories
This is a Choose Your Own Adventure gamebook that brings together three distinct plotlines with multiple playable characters. This of course includes the one in which you, playing as William Shakespeare, will absolutely get to punch a shark. You will have your choice of shark. You will have your choice of punch (from gentle love tap to the mind-shattering widowmaker). You will have some really justified reasons to punch the shark, and you will also have the option to hug the shark instead and then live happily ever after with that shark.
This will be more fun if you know a bit of Shakespeare to understand a few of the plotlines and events.
And one for fans of Comic & Graphic Novels
100 Greatest Graphic Novels: The Good, The Bad, The Epic
Filled with superheroes and grade-school heroines, psychotic villains and mythical creatures, tenderness and heartbreak, 100 Greatest Graphic Novels celebrates some of the finest graphic novels ever written and drawn. This guided tour of incredible stories is wonderfully visual and organized by various themes, offering reviews and commentary of ironic superhero stories (The Dark Knight Returns, Kingdom Come, Watchmen), coming-of-age tales (American Born Chinese, Roller Girl, This One Summer), historical literature (Barefoot Men, Maus, When the Wind Blows), modern drama (Killing and Dying, Marbles, Swallow Me Whole) and everything in between (The Acme Novelty Library, Fred the Clown, X'ed Out).