Writing MIT Mystery Hunt 2023
This post is about 55,000 words long, and is riddled with spoilers for pretty much every aspect of MIT Mystery Hunt 2023. There are no spoiler bars. You have been warned. Please pace yourselves accordingly.
This post is about 55,000 words long, and is riddled with spoilers for pretty much every aspect of MIT Mystery Hunt 2023. There are no spoiler bars. You have been warned. Please pace yourselves accordingly. I feel like every puzzle aficionado goes through at least one conversation where they try to explain what puzzlehunts are, and why they’re fun, and this conversation goes poorly. It’s just a hard hobby to explain. Usually, I say something about escape rooms, and that works, but in many ways the typical puzzlehunt is not like an escape room? “Competitive collaborative spreadsheeting” is more
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