Jan. 19th, 2011

l33tminion: (L33t)
Mystery Hunt was fun. The full hunt is here, and the answers are all up (clicking "call in answer" will now take you to the page with the solution). My team didn't do very well this year, we solved a few meta-puzzles from each round but only completed one super-meta. I wish we'd gotten Cut and Paste (got off on the wrong track and never figured it out) and the Megaman meta-puzzle (we never got on the right track on this one, though that shouldn't have been so hard) and the third solution for Making the Possible Impossible (all the puzzles that round had three solutions and we got the first two). Wasn't the best year for hunt, since I was sick (among other people). But still was fun.

The rest of the weekend was good, too. Had a Monday brunch date with someone I met off of OKC.

My shirts arrived from Daswani. And my worries about the color of the shirts have been largely dispelled, they all look good. If the fit isn't perfect, I'll just get some alterations on those as well.

The weather today was crazy. Hopefully I won't slip and fall on my way to work tomorrow.
l33tminion: (Kano)
I should have mentioned in that last post my favorite puzzles of this year's Hunt:
Parts of Speech
Unlikely Situations
Mario Clash

A lot of Hunt puzzles have the following form: Figure out the structure, solve the puzzle, extract an answer. Personally, I prefer puzzles that concentrate difficulty in the middle step and have a little cleverness in the first. Incredibly frustrating to solve a puzzle and be unable to solve the solution.

Parts of Speech is hard (but straightforward) once you figure out the structure (not hard, but creative). Unlikely Situations is relatively easy once you figure out the structure, which may be easy or difficult (but is probably easy for most Hunters). Mario Clash is easy once you figure out the structure (which there are many, many clues for; this one should have been easy but no one on my team got it). Extracting the answer is easy for all of those.
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