2021 Mystery Hunt roundup
Jan. 19th, 2021 03:23 amSo obviously I didn't go up to Boston this year. But with Daniel and Emma showing up here at Solarium so often anyway, well, they showed up here and so we had our little Plant sub-team here. Cassels also showed up Sunday to help out with Divided Is Us. We also managed to recruit Alex for Game Ditty Quiz and for Treasure Maps. As usual, I didn't start until well after kickoff Friday, so I missed the Yew Labs round.
Plant seemed to do pretty well this year. Not like last year when, when the coin was found, there were still a number of rounds we hadn't unlocked yet. This year -- well, we didn't make it to the final runaround (?), which I gather required solving all the round metas -- but we had at least unlocked most of the puzzles by the end. I mean, in most of the rounds we had unlocked all the puzzles, but the one exception was in ⊥IW.giga, where we never so much as made it to ⊥IW.kilo, let alone to ⊥IW.milli. So we only saw about 1/3 of the puzzles in that round. Also, on the Green Building, we only unlocked 10 of the 13 switches, since each switch requires solving a puzzle.
( Cutting for spoilers, since I feel like even discussing hunt structure has a fair bit of that this year, especially as I'm also going to be describing navigation puzzles )
And, I think that's it!
As for Mystery Hunt 2022, well, next year in Cambridge?
Plant seemed to do pretty well this year. Not like last year when, when the coin was found, there were still a number of rounds we hadn't unlocked yet. This year -- well, we didn't make it to the final runaround (?), which I gather required solving all the round metas -- but we had at least unlocked most of the puzzles by the end. I mean, in most of the rounds we had unlocked all the puzzles, but the one exception was in ⊥IW.giga, where we never so much as made it to ⊥IW.kilo, let alone to ⊥IW.milli. So we only saw about 1/3 of the puzzles in that round. Also, on the Green Building, we only unlocked 10 of the 13 switches, since each switch requires solving a puzzle.
( Cutting for spoilers, since I feel like even discussing hunt structure has a fair bit of that this year, especially as I'm also going to be describing navigation puzzles )
And, I think that's it!
As for Mystery Hunt 2022, well, next year in Cambridge?
