Puzzles
MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Recap
Last weekend I had the pleasure of spending it all doing the MIT Mystery Hunt with my favorite team, NES. We had the explicit goal of trying to finish for the first time, and while we fell…
MIT Mystery Hunt 2023 Recap
[Note: I will avoid specific puzzle spoilers, but will talk about structural things and how rounds worked. I am on team NES but my opinions are my own] I’ll start out by saying I thoroughly enjoyed hunt…
MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 Recap
[A note about this blog: In 2022 hoping to post both things related to puzzlehunts (hunt recaps, etc.) as well as my own crosswords. These have and will continue to be been posted in separate categories, but…
Huntinality Recap
Going to try and get back into hunt recaps~~ (spoilers ahead obv) I ended up doing this hunt with only a team size of three as we were a little short-handed due to conflicts, which I felt…
CRUMS Puzzlehunt Recap
This is perhaps a tad late, but I’d like to recap the excellent CRUMS Puzzlehunt that took place the week after December 12th. I was curious what it was going to be like, with just six puzzles…
Recap: DaroCaro’s Pixar Puzzle Hunt
This past Friday I took a shot at the DaroCaro puzzlehunt. I had really no idea where it was going to lie on the puzzle-quality spectrum so I tried to go in with as open a mind…
On the Psychology of Metapuzzles and Short-circuiting
While solving puzzles is satisfying, nothing quite tops the adrenaline of cracking a metapuzzle. You’ve put all this work into gleaning these seemingly random words from these puzzles. You’ve solved the mystery of this set of images,…