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Re: Puzzles - Mystery Hunt

[(Anonymous)]

Day 1!

Before the hunt started, we got a set of warm-up puzzles - sadly no longer publicly available - themed around an invasion of 'super-intelligent (fictional) rats from the stars!' Every year's Mystery Hunt usually has a theme to it (i.e. last year's was 'Inverse MIT,' the year before's was a decrepit amusement park), so we expected that would be the theme for this year.

As the kickoff started and the organizers started introducing the rat invasion concept to us, though, they were suddenly interrupted by a report that MIT's Hayden Library had mysteriously disappeared into a storm of children's books - popular ones like Peter Pan and Where the Wild Things Are, but with their contents replaced purely with puzzles! Since the impending collapse of the campus into a book singularity was far more important than any mere genius rodents, we were instead tasked with solving the puzzles and figuring out what, exactly, this rift in time and space was supposed to be.

So that's the plot summary. Puzzle-wise, I think this year's hunt is way harder than previous years' hunts because it took us almost the whole day to solve the first round of puzzles, haha. Either that or we just suck more than usual (highly possible). A lot of puzzles felt like they required a lot of work on the research/clue-solving front, and then a whole separate epiphany to figure out the extraction method for it; I'd expect that from a later-round puzzle, not the introduction set of puzzles.

Re: Puzzles - Mystery Hunt

[(Anonymous)]

:D I watched the kickoff video on youtube even though I'm not taking part and enjoyed the amateurish feel of the acting, wondered how much of that was intentional given the twist. :P I often find puzzley things get harder as the years go on, as the question-setters try to outfox their regulars who are getting wise to tactics used in previous years... can make me wary of joining in with something if it's been going for ages (if it doesn't have difficulty tiers, anyway). Glad you got them solved though!