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April 28, 2004

Mini Puzzle Hunt

Went to an NPL mini-con/puzzle hunt hosted by Hathor on Saturday and had a really nice time with the pre-hunt games and particularly doing the hunt, developed by Foggy and Ucaoimhu. There were a few minor typo-like errors but generally the puzzles were excllent and really fit well together. The final meta-puzzle was of the "follow a very long and complex sequence of instructions accurately" type but worked well, except that it turned out that a ton of the stuff we were doing wasn't really necessary to finding the final answer. For this hunt, this was fine but in a hunt where teams were really competitive, it would have been by far the most efficient thing to focus on the meta-puzzle from the start and skip doing huge sections of some of the other puzzles. Our team did get the final solution, solving pretty much everything, but about 15 minutes after the winning team. Thanks so much to Foggy, Ucaoimhu, and Hathor.

In the pre-hunt games, I was surprised that nobody in the crowd knew enough about the BBC television series The Office to know that it took place in Slough, England and that the main character, played by Ricky Gervais, is named David Brent. I thought this would be a show right up the alley of this group of people.

Posted by aarondf at April 28, 2004 12:58 PM

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