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- Among the tongue-twisting challenges that he spelled on the way to victory were propaedeutic, ditokous, eudaemonic and quodlibet.
- The experiences of Norman, Doyne Farmer, and crew were later chronicled in the book " The Eudaemonic Pie " ( 1985 ) by Thomas Bass.
- In Tom Bass'book The Eudaemonic Pie, Burke prided himself for his Rubik's Cube costume at the end of the book which kept his identity concealed from his students.
- The winner was Henry Feldman ( age 13 ) of Oak Ridge, Tennessee and sponsored by the " Knoxville News Sentinel ", correctly spelling the word " eudaemonic ".
- Third place went to Mary Gilliland, 13, of Fort Worth, Texas ( $ 250 prize ), who failed to properly spell " eudaemonic " in the 23rd round.
- The 1985 publication of his book " The Eudaemonic Pie " is believed to have motivated the passage of a Nevada law banning the use of devices to gain an advantage at casino games.
- Bass reports how the two leaders of Eudaemonic Enterprises, Doyne Farmer and Norman Packard, set about finding more complex things to predict than the eventual resting place of a metal ball bouncing around a rotating wheel.
- Readers of an entertaining earlier book by Thomas A . Bass, " The Eudaemonic Pie " ( 1985 ), will recall how from 1976 until 1981 a group of California physicists worked to break the banks at Las Vegas by predicting the outcome of the game of roulette.
- A book written about this project ( The Eudaemonic Pie / Newton's Casino : The Bizarre True Story of How a Band of Physicists and Computer Wizards Took on Las Vegas ) describes Crutchfield in his early years as " hacker-in-residence " : " Crutchfield surfs, snorkels, and backpacks.
- To win, he spelled " fondu, " " waiver, " " serendipity, " " ersatz, " " surfactant, " " vesicant, " " emmetropia, " " annelid, " " trophobiosis, " " psilosis, " " quodlibet, " " eudaemonic, " " ditokous, " " propaedeutic " and " demarche " correctly over two days.