Things I would have been happier to have seen done somewhat differently:
I wrote about it substantially on the /r/mysteryhunt reddit thread, so you can go look there, but everything about it was excellent. I particularly enjoyed the Scavenger hunt this year. We churned through puzzles at a good rate through all of Friday and the beginning of Saturday, and once we started getting a little tired and puzzles started getting harder, we started getting Santa unlocks at a solid rate so there was always something meaningful to be working on. I can’t speak to the experience of the top teams, of course, but things seems balanced really well for us this year. I’ve joined in discussions on this topic in a couple different forums over the past couple years, and as a member of a mid-strength team that doesn’t generally finish the hunt, we’ve felt really bottlenecked a few times, especially last year with Inside Out. I think you really, really nailed the unlock structure this year. My opinions do not necessarily reflect that of the entire team, of course. I’ll chime in if I have simple answers deeper questions may give me something to talk about in my upcoming posts.
Cryptext hunt 2019 free#
In the meantime, feel free to comment here about things you liked and disliked (let’s be constructive, please) about Hunt, puzzles you recommend that others look at, and/or questions you might have about the construction process. I’m itching to talk about the project I had to keep secret for a year, but I don’t get paid to write about Hunt, so my Mystery Hunt posts (covering things like story/structure, my experience overseeing metas, puzzles I wrote, and a conversation about backsolving etiquette) may dribble out over the next month or so. But unlike the last couple of years, I don’t have a buffer week between now and the beginning of my semester tomorrow I have orientation meetings (assuming my car can traverse the sheet of ice on my driveway) and Wednesday I’m in front of a class. I was proud of what we did.Īs you can imagine, I’ve got lots to say about Hunt.
We made a Mystery Hunt! Hope you liked it. The next few posts will contain many spoilers.) Puzzles and solutions can currently be found here. (This is a preview to a recap/review of the 2019 MIT Mystery Hunt, which happened this month.
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