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Mystery Hunt index updated
Sorry for being so slow about it, but the hunt index is updated to include all 2018 puzzles, just in time for the next hunt!
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Mystery Hunt 2018 - part 3
The puzzles are now on the MIT site, so links in this post go to the permanent URLs for these puzzles.
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Mystery Hunt 2018 - part 2
I left off the last entry shortly after I returned to Hunt Saturday morning, around 8:30 AM.
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Mystery Hunt 2018, part 1
While I ended up on the winning team, Death and Mayhem, last year, we (the remaining members of Beginner's Luck after 3/4 of the team scattered to various other teams) really intended to stay with D&M only for 2017, and then move on to make another team (with plans I will describe below). Winning the hunt gave us a dilemma ( Read more... ) -
Mystery Hunt 2017: That Unlocking Structure
Data from Death & Mayhem about the unlocks:- At 7:23 PM Friday we had 12 open puzzles.
- At 7:24 we solved Dismal Dungeon, which unlocked seven more puzzles.
- At 7:40 we solved Thespians, which unlocked seventeen more puzzles.
- At 8:17 we finished the first event (and solved Pentoku at the same time), and this combined to unlock fourteen more puzzles.
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Mystery Hunt 2017: Other thoughts
Writing a Mystery Hunt that could be finished in 15 and a half hours was a bit of a construction failure. But it was a tolerable one. Some people who expected to join Death & Mayhem or Palindrome on Saturday afternoon for puzzling arrived to find their teams already finished. Other than that, though, people had fun, just for less time than they ( Read more... ) -
Mystery Hunt 2017: The Puzzles
Here is a spoily summary of the puzzles I worked on and selected other puzzles, in order by round, rather than the order I looked at them. You might need to be logged into a team account to see the puzzles using the links.
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Mystery Hunt 2017: What the heck happened?
This post will cover the hunt and hunt structure a bit but will not include any puzzle spoilers.
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Mystery Hunt Index now has hunt and author pages
This isn't the update many of you are expecting. I'll be adding the 2016 hunt next. Instead, this is the update that no less than three people have asked me about since last hunt, despite me not really advertising it. The hunt index has been updated to include separate pages for each hunt, listing just the puzzles in that hunt, and for each author ( Read more... ) -
NPR weekend edition
Almost 9 years since my last appearance, I got selected for Willz's puzzle segment on NPR's Weekend Edition again. Listen to me this Sunday.
Update: Here's the direct link to my appearance.