Coinheist 2013: Mystery Hunt Writeup

[sylvanstargazer]

There has been much whinging across the internet regarding the most recent hunt and its late finish.  To me, most of it sounds like, "but Hunt is supposed to be hard and frustrating for OTHER PEOPLE, not amazing solvers like me!" and the unnice part of me can only think, "welcome to my world."  I am sorry some people didn't have fun, but much of

Comments

[dcltdw]

Is this similar to "WoW raiding content should be easy enough for my raid group to do, not confer advantages to losers-living-in-parents-basements who play one iota more than our group, and absolutely impossible for casuals-who-are-probably-part-of-a-minority-group who play one iota less than our group" meme?

Glad you had fun. :)

[sylvanstargazer]

Why, yes! Casual vs. Hard Core is the same everywhere (and I am still part of a group that is smaller than usual, intends first and foremost to have fun, pretty much all get my feminism jokes, enjoys excessive challenges and does better than one would expect given our size and level-of-taking-it-seriously but is never at the very forefront of raid progression

[davidglasser]

We (RoboPop) had the exact same interpretations for Uncharted Territories. (Didn't help that the most clear letter was the K.)

[ext_1610469]

I agree. There seem to be two types of comments across the web: "I liked this puzzle" (opinion), and "this puzzle is broken" (fact). It's rare to see comments like "this is a fine puzzle but not for me", or "this is a fine puzzle but it stumped us". It especially stands out when somebody's swearing up and down that a puzzle is completely broken/unsolvable/terrible, while somewhere else another person comments about how much fun they had with exactly the same puzzle. ;) Jigsaw is probably the most common love-it-or-hate-it example