About The Scarlett Kite
Hi! I'm Scarlett Kiteway, I'm 20 years old, a journalism student in Perplex City and this is my blog all about the excitement over the search for the Cube. I'll be keeping track of what the media over there is saying about it, and maybe a little bit about my life as well!
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Fun Surprise
Category: web, 09:23 PMI've got a special treat for you today! Mind Candy has given an exclusive advance Wave 3 card to Game Daily, including a special code for solving it and getting points. It really sounds like everything is gearing up for the release of Wave 3, which I understand is coming very soon now. :-)
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
New York PCAG Tournament
Category: me, 05:50 PMI've just gotten these pictures from Mind Candy - they're from the PCAG tournament in New York. How very exciting! Congratulations to Gabriel, the winner! (They tell me he's the one in the first photo being presented a trophy from Andrea at Mind Candy.)
It makes me a little sad to know I'm so out of the loop on what's happening with all of you and in the city, but I do think what I'm doing here is important. Just this morning I was feeding berries to an owl with a broken wing, and he looked at me with his giant, wise eyes, and I realised again how very rewarding this experience has been, even if I do miss home a bit from time to time.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
PCAG on Earth!
Category: me, 08:00 PMHello everyone! Sorry I've been so quiet for such a long time. I've been SO busy here at the animal rescue centre that I've hardly had a moment to myself. Still, when I got a message from Mind Candy about some upcoming events on Earth I just had to post the link here so you could see it! Here it is.
Thursday, November 24, 2005
Special Offer this weekend
Category: me, 11:28 AMI just heard back from Mind Candy that Firebox will be running their special offer this weekend. That means from 0:01am Saturday 26th to 11:59pm Sunday 27th (GMT), they'll be sending out five packs per order instead of four packs. Please remember that the times I gave above are in London time, so if you live in another time zone, you should check that it's actually the weekend in London when you order!
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Second Wave is Out
Category: me, 03:35 PMSecond wave cards are definitely on sale now. How exciting! :-) I just wanted to dash off a quick post to let you know Firebox isn't doing their special offer yet -- though it should be coming in the next few days. Keep on the lookout here!
Friday, November 18, 2005
Wave 2
Category: me, 07:07 PMGood news! Mind Candy says that Wave 2 cards will be available for sale next week!
Mind Candy says they've mixed together some cards from Wave 1 along with the new ones, so that new players still have a shot at getting a whole collection. But they said that some of you probably mainly want Wave 2, as you have nearly all of the Wave 1 cards already!
So to reward all of you who have been with us from the beginning, they've decided to do a special offer from Firebox. They'll be sending out five packs per each order for four packs, which should mean you'll mostly get Wave 2 cards. It will only be in effect for 48 hours, and they're not sure yet when it'll start, but I'll let you know as soon as I hear -- keep checking back so you don't miss it!
Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Harrods
Category: me, 04:00 PMA piece of news from Mind Candy! Apparently Harrods, a big store in London which stocks Perplex City puzzle cards, is holding a "Trading Card Extravaganza" on Saturday 12 November. It sounds great fun, especially for children!
Tuesday, November 1, 2005
London Expo
Category: me, 06:42 PMHey! I haven't blogged for a long time - we've extended our trip in Tanraga for a while, because my boyfriend Brede unfortunately had an accident so we're waiting till he gets better. Don't worry, he's definitely healing well :).
The guys at Mind Candy have just sent me this great picture so I just had to say hello! It's of an event called the "London Expo", where Mind Candy had a stall. You can see an actor called Toby Stephens who played "Gustav Graves" in a "James Bond" movie holding some of our puzzle cards! How extremely exciting!
Monday, October 3, 2005
Try your luck
Category: tv, 04:50 PMThere's an ad in the Metro (a UK newspaper) today for a puzzle designer to work with the guys at Mind Candy. As an extra dose of excitement, though, the interviews will be filmed for a television show! So if you'd like a shot or you know anybody who would, email your CV off to . Best of luck!
Friday, September 23, 2005
Cards competition
Category: me, 05:13 PMThanks so much, everyone, for all your email with such fun ideas for spreading puzzle cards around on Earth! The response has been so overwhelming, it was hard to pick among them. It's been so much fun reading these on my long train journeys. :-)
I've selected the best ideas and sent them on to the guys at Mind Candy. Parcels should be winging their way around the world to the winners in the next few days. Of course, if you get up to any adventures while distributing these I'd really love to hear about it - and given your crazy ideas, I'm sure there will be plenty of adventures to be had!
But remember that Mind Candy can only send packs to people who've sent me their address, so if you haven't done so yet, you'd better send your address over quickly!
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Cubefest report
Category: me, 07:13 PMSounds like the Cubefest was a great success! I had an email from "European Chris" to tell me all about it. He said: "The day was lovely and everyone else who is trying to find the cube are outstandingly nice people." Doesn't surprise me to hear that all the Cube-hunters are lovely people! The guys from Mind Candy also sent me over this great photo of Katie, who at 7 years old is our youngest Cube-seeker so far! Hi Katie!
Have to go now; we're about to set off on a quick wildlife-hike at dusk. So exciting :-).
Thursday, September 8, 2005
More cool stuff :-D
Category: me, 10:38 AMAnother cool piece of news from Mind Candy :-). They want to get more people from Earth involved in the search for the Cube (naturally!) so they have a clever idea - they're going to give away some cards to you guys who read my blog, so that you can put them in interesting locations where they might be found. You know, leave them on tables in cafes, on the train, in your school or library.... I'm sure you can come up with some better ideas than that! So, the people who email me with their addresses and the best ideas for where they're going to put the cards will receive a package, free, to distribute. Mind Candy will only send out a package to one person in each city, though, so you'd better be original! Looking forward to hearing your crazy, creative ideas! :-D
Wednesday, September 7, 2005
Cubefest!
Category: me, 07:15 PMI just had a message from the guys at Mind Candy that they'd like me to pass on. This week there is going to be the first ever Cubefest in London! It'll be at The Ha Ha Bar, Villiers Street, London on Saturday 10th September and starts at 2pm. Lots of the guys from Mind Candy are going to be there, there'll be a Mind Candy-sponsored buffet, and everyone's welcome! I think there's a website for the event on its way - I'll let you know when it's ready. Sounds like it's going to be a great time. Sigh, another party I can't go to....
Friday, September 2, 2005
Vacation time!
Category: me, 06:22 PMHey! Just want to let you all know that I'm off on vacation tonight! I'm going on a six-week train/hiking trip to the Tanraga mountain region with my friends Margot and Sanj and my boyfriend Brede :-D. It's supposed to be incredibly beautiful there - I'm just so looking forward to it!
Just before I go though, I promised my dad I'd let you all know about this puzzle. Apparently the people at Mind Candy wrote it so it's not too difficult - just a bit of fun :-).
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
A sad day
Category: me, 02:28 PMThe Sentinel had a service this morning to commemorate one of their reporters who died a little while ago - Pietro Salk. I didn't really know him; I met him a few times last time I was interning at the Sentinel, we had lunch together sometimes among a group of people. It was a really lovely service, held in the Sentinel building's atrium, where people just walked up to the microphone to share their memories of working with Pietro. I didn't have anything much to say - I just said a couple of words about how I remember that Pietro would make a point to pick up Julian Blooms for his wife on Fridays, when the ones he grew himself didn't meet his exacting standards. I always found that so sweet - I could tell just by the time he took choosing those flowers how in love he was with his wife.