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[motris]

I participated in Lost: The Game on Stanford's campus this weekend, a puzzle hunt designed by some Stanford students. It was my first experience captaining a team and while my friends were not terribly experienced with puzzle-solving, we did rather well IMO finishing all the puzzles and the meta before the event ended. There was a very close call

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[thedan]

> One of the second layer steps that I got was a list where all the words but one could be typed with exclusively the right hand on the keyboard (the other word exclusively with the left hand).

There was a puzzle like this in one of the early Setec Hunts, escept the left/right translated into binary and then ASCII (or was it Morse?) Shortly before the Hunt, after the puzzle had already been test-solved, I asked how it worked, and my teammates gave me more and more blatant tips until they asked me to type the words on a keyboard. As they watched me tap them out with two fingers, they said, "Oh. Never mind."

[meeko713]

HEY, thanks for playing!!! glad you liked it. reading stuff like this definitely makes it all worth it. we actually really lucked out because i was like "damn, if tom snyder's playing the game, there's gotta be a really intense logic puzzle!!" but yeah. a lot of teams liked it, so that worked out well. apologies for the awkward strings; the only argument i can make for them is that it keeps teams from reverse-solving the clues.