A quick on-line puzzle hunt. Gather one or two puzzle-loving friends around a computer for a little mini-game.

# How many puzzles? How long will this take?

Eight puzzles plus a meta.

Some teams finish in ~40 minutes, some in ~80 minutes, some longer.

# What's the maximum team size?

There isn't one. If you gather 100 friends and finish in ten minutes, good for you.

# What do we need? How do we prepare?

A computer with an internet connection. A printer might help, especially for one puzzle. You probably want to register a team ahead of time. Solve the UI puzzle to learn the unintentional puzzle of the web site's UI.

# Is this for n00bs? I heard Octothorpean's for n00bs.

This event is for not-so-noobs. A word search's "leftover" letters may hide a secret message; this should not surprise you.

# No, really I heard Octothorpean's for n00bs.

Octothorpean contains many, many puzzles. The first "arcs" are for n00bs. But there are other arcs. This is one of those others.

# Why reveal this "arc" of puzzles if the n00b-puzzles aren't ready yet?

Call it a shakedown cruise using a nice inter-related group of puzzles.

# Is this here thing a puzzle?

This was the invitation to Lumber Party, back before Lumber Party had, in fact, started. This has an "answer;" enter it to continue on to the proper puzzles. That answer has nothing to do with these instructions. It was instead announced on the @octothorpean Twitter account July 21, 2013.