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Mystery Hunt
Well, Mystery Hunt is over. IHTFP/Lebowitz's Urban Achievers/EC Come EC Go didn't win. We did get over half of the puzzles we saw, which is probably good. And I got to hack on RT a bit. I wonder if I didn't throw too much into it, though; spending a night in the East Campus Talbot Lounge probably wasn't good for me. I spent way too long staring at the puzzles I thought I could do; for example, I spent most of the day staring at the cross-sum puzzle trying to do half in base 10 and half in base 11, but it got solved fairly quickly (all in base 11) once I handed it off. I probably put 8 or 10 hours total into the genealogy puzzle, and had one of the two important insights that would be needed to solve the problem.
I think the best thing I can say is "okay, now I've done that". I don't think I feel particularly compelled to do it again next year, even if it is an MIT Experience (TM). Working from home yesterday meant that I got sleep, at least, which was good. (Oh, and nothing I brought to campus specifically for Hunt seemed to get used, which was a little disappointing.)
I think the best thing I can say is "okay, now I've done that". I don't think I feel particularly compelled to do it again next year, even if it is an MIT Experience (TM). Working from home yesterday meant that I got sleep, at least, which was good. (Oh, and nothing I brought to campus specifically for Hunt seemed to get used, which was a little disappointing.)