![]() I felt like there wasn’t as much production value in the physical puzzles this year. 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. 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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