Mystery Hunt roundup 2015
Jan. 22nd, 2015 09:04 pmSo! This past weekend was MIT Mystery Hunt, which means it's time for my annual Mystery Hunt roundup. Unfortunately the puzzles aren't up yet on the archive, or full stats, but limited stats are up in the form of the slideshow, and the solutions are at least up for those of us who participated. Hopefully everything's up before too long, but I'm just going to go ahead and do this anyway. EDIT: I've now put the links in. (Also, I had accidentally mislabeled "Dory" as "Nemo".)
I was once again on the Donner Party team this year. Not a very large team. We did OK, I guess? Solved a decent fraction of the puzzles. Ended up right about the middle of the pack. We didn't solve any of the metametas (certainly didn't make it to the runaround -- I don't know how possible the runaround would have been anyway, seeing as we're a mostly-remote team), and I don't think we even solved any of the metas until after the coin was found (and we only got two of those). So, not great. Apparently we solve a record number of puzzles for our team, but that was probably helped by the existence of the School of Fish round, which consisted of a large number of lower-difficulty puzzles (apparently designed to be about "something like one-third the difficulty of typical ocean puzzles").
Nobody else here really joined in, although Seth and Noelle each did very briefly, and so did Angus, who was here for the weekend, and actually Angus and Seth both ended up contributing substantially during that brief time! But oh well. Anyway, on to discussing particular puzzles.
( Cut for spoilers )
So, that's that. We'll see what next year brings. (Maybe I should join a different team -- I miss having a shot at actually winning...)
-Harry
I was once again on the Donner Party team this year. Not a very large team. We did OK, I guess? Solved a decent fraction of the puzzles. Ended up right about the middle of the pack. We didn't solve any of the metametas (certainly didn't make it to the runaround -- I don't know how possible the runaround would have been anyway, seeing as we're a mostly-remote team), and I don't think we even solved any of the metas until after the coin was found (and we only got two of those). So, not great. Apparently we solve a record number of puzzles for our team, but that was probably helped by the existence of the School of Fish round, which consisted of a large number of lower-difficulty puzzles (apparently designed to be about "something like one-third the difficulty of typical ocean puzzles").
Nobody else here really joined in, although Seth and Noelle each did very briefly, and so did Angus, who was here for the weekend, and actually Angus and Seth both ended up contributing substantially during that brief time! But oh well. Anyway, on to discussing particular puzzles.
( Cut for spoilers )
So, that's that. We'll see what next year brings. (Maybe I should join a different team -- I miss having a shot at actually winning...)
-Harry
