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I’ve talked about Mystery Hunt at length, from the perspective of a participant, the perspective of a hunt runner, and the perspective of a community member. Here I’ll take the perspective of a critic, or perhaps a scholar. I’m going to put my CMS hat⁠01 on and think about the Mystery Hunt from a media studies viewpoint, grounding some thoughts I have about the Hunt through comparison with other forms of media. What is the Mystery Hunt? I once described it as “the world’s oldest, largest puzzlehunt, an event where hundreds of teams, with sizes anywhere from one to a hundred, work to solve roughly a dozen rounds of roughly a dozen puzzles each, of kinds ranging from jigsaw puzzle to Sudoku variant to protein-folding crossword to submitting ridiculous dance videos.” I might refer to puzzlehunts as hunts, and the Mystery Hunt as the Hunt. That’ll suffice for now; I’ll give more context when it comes up. What is CMS? I don’t have a snappy answer. Like media studies, CMS includes the study

Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later by CJ Q. '23 cms major who January 29, 2023 in Best of the Blogs , Events , IAP , MIT History & Culture I&#8217;ve talked about Mystery Hunt at length, from the perspective of a participant , the perspective of a hunt runner , and the perspective of a community member . Here I&#8217;ll take the perspective of a critic, or perhaps a scholar. I&#8217;m going to put my CMS hat &#8288; 01 CMS is <a href="https://cmsw.mit.edu/about">Comparative Media Studies</a>, a department under MIT’s <a href="https://shass.mit.edu/">School of Humanities, Arts, and Social S

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