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…
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,…
