This character overhears a woodcutter reciting a poem called the Mantingfang, ultimately leading him to his first teacher. An object associated with this character is said to have originally contained nine orifices and eight holes, before transforming after a wind blew on it. This character correctly deduces that being hit three times on the back of the head by his teacher was an instruction to meet him during the third watch of the night. This character jumps through a (*) waterfall to discover the Water Curtain Cave behind it during his time on the Flower-Fruit Mountain. An object used by Yu the Great to measure flood water depth is gifted by the Dragon King of the East Sea to this character, becoming his weapon, the Ruyi Jingu Bang. For 10 points, Tang Sanzang is accompanied by what monkey born from a stone egg in Journey to the West? ■END■
| 2025 PLAYTIME Online | 04/26/2025 | Y | 9 | 100% | 33% | 22% | 93.33 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard | 04/26/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 77.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 82.67 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 38% | 0% | 82.38 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 92.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 101.50 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 92.25 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 40% | 0% | 69.20 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 67% | 97.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 60% | 0% | 68.20 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 87.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Pittsburgh | 28 | 15 |
| Anthony Zhao | Mahjonng Masters | Auburn 2026 | 34 | 15 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont A | UCLA B | 34 | 15 |
| Hayden Prather | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Billy's Bastion | 42 | -5 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo C | Toronto Metropolitan | 46 | 15 |
| Anderson Wang | Art of Premature Signaling | Claremont B | 48 | 15 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame + Epic Games | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | 54 | 15 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | UW B | Arizona State University B | 60 | 15 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | MIT | 63 | 15 |
| Luis D'Olhaberriague | George Washington | George Mason B | 63 | -5 |
| Steven Yuan | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | Quatumvirate | 63 | -5 |
| Michael Du | Waterloo A | UBC | 63 | 15 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Oberlin | 65 | 15 |
| Tiffany Zhou | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 65 | 15 |
| Daniel Huang | Michigan D | Michigan A | 69 | 15 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | mongeese | 73 | 15 |
| Graham Cope | Too much from you lately | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 73 | -5 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto C | Ottawa A | 73 | 15 |
| Alex Jiang | Brown | Brandeis | 79 | 10 |
| Crow He | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | 79 | 10 |
| Jay Kim | Chicago B | Iowa State | 79 | 10 |
| Joy An | Harvard | Lexington | 81 | 10 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge | Warwick A | 81 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Rutgers | 82 | 10 |
| Orion Keller | Master and Margaritaville | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 83 | 10 |
| Adsayan Ganesh | Warwick B | Sheffield B | 83 | 10 |
| Hazel DePreist-Sullivan | evil women enjoyers | Goober Gang | 84 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Belmont | 85 | 10 |
| Sky Hong | we need new names | Egypt Airlines Haters | 85 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | Ohio State D | Ohio State B | 85 | 10 |
| Payton Chung | girl 15 whale i mean they | UCLA A | 85 | 10 |
| Daniel Chung | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | UCSB | 85 | 10 |
| Anh Khoa Tran | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | Too much from you lately | 85 | 10 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield C | Imperial B | 85 | 10 |
| Monica Wang | Guelph | Toronto A | 85 | 10 |
| Vasa Clarke | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 86 | 10 |
| Owen Arneson | Missouri | WashU Bulbasaur | 86 | 10 |
| Victor Xu | Toronto D | Toronto B | 86 | 10 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo B | Toronto E | 86 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Johns Hopkins A | 87 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Georgetown | 87 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU C | George Mason A | 87 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Warwick C | 87 | 10 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State University A | UW A | 89 | 10 |
| Stan | Gruh | MSJ | 90 | -5 |
| David Allen | Edinburgh | Manchester | 90 | 10 |
| Derrick Liu | Johns Hopkins B | NYU B | 94 | 10 |
| Aron Csornok | SD Mines | Carleton | 94 | 10 |
| Zhiheng Liu | Michigan C | Ohio State C | 94 | 10 |
| Alex Xu | Caltech | UCSD | 94 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | McGill A | 94 | 10 |
| Eugenia Tong | Imperial A | Lancaster | 96 | 10 |
| Bhaskar Moorthy | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 101 | 10 |
| Audrey Cho | Haverford B | Catholic University of America | 110 | 10 |
| John John Groger | WashU Charmander | Chicago A | 111 | 10 |
| Rose Phipps | George Mason C | Haverford A | 118 | 10 |
| Winnie Nutkowitz | Illinois Orange | Free Agents 1 | 124 | 10 |
| Padraig Finan | Washington Connections | Alberta | 126 | 10 |
| Kevin | Simon Fraser | Mac A | 126 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | Quatumvirate | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | 141 | 10 |
| Alyx Reckanh | Billy's Bastion | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | 141 | 10 |
| Pradyumna Krishna | MSJ | Gruh | 144 | 10 |
| Brayden Whitlow | George Mason B | George Washington | 147 | 10 |