Greetings puzzlers!

We are pleased to announce that the 37th annual MIT Mystery Hunt will begin at noon on January 12, 2018 in Kresge Auditorium and will run through 10AM on Monday, January 15, 2018.  Wrap-up will take place in Kresge Auditorium at noon on Monday the 15th.  We invite you to join us for a fun-filled weekend of puzzles!

Hunt ( Read more... )

I realize nobody uses Livejournal anymore (and with good reason), but here's my writeup of my experience during this year's hunt anyway ( Read more... )

http://devjoe.livejournal.com/53063.html

I've seen a bunch of posts on Reddit and of course devjoe's stuff, wondering what I'm missing, without the tumblr this time around ( Read more... )

I tried to limit spoilers to obvious things or to physical puzzles (which I'm guessing won't be something post-Hunt solvers can do). http://mystery-fish.livejournal.com/37537.html

Here are my two posts about this year's Hunt: my overall thoughts on it, and my comments on specific puzzles. I tried to be a little less spoilery than usual, but there are still some spoilers in the puzzle notes.

It's extraordinarily long (as in I went up against the 65536 character limit) and contains spoilery spoilers, but if you're on this community you probably played in the hunt anyway? Just warning, because Random is going to make one of the rounds available as a book (which I completely didn't work on anyway) and the entire hunt available just on a ( Read more... )

jadelennox hosted the Invisible Ficathon fanfic exchange, which just revealed its stories. It resulted in two Escape from Zyzzlvaria fanfics. Naturally, they both contain puzzles.



Where on the Brass Rat is Captain Blastoid (2780 words) by seekingferret
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Escape from Zyzzlvaria (Board Game)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive ( Read more... )

It took me a minute to remember that I had a livejournal account that could post things here, but I wrote a (long) blog post about things we strove for in the Alice Shrugged hunt and, as I plan on directing Random to it, I welcome comments/criticisms/etc from other people that have written hunts before (or even just people who have participated in ( Read more... )

Here are my thoughts on this Mystery Hunt as a whole and individual puzzles I had comments on.