Mystery Hunt has come and gone again.
- It was short. I feel like I was robbed of a day of puzzling. Went home Saturday, watched the Pats game, came back around midnight, hunt over at 00:31 Sunday.
- Though the puzzles were clever / good / elegant, they didn’t engage me.
- Our team was good. I like the people. Interesting to have a set of people that we see and interact with only once a year.
- It was good to see Jon and Ain’t I Hip.
- The scavenger hunt was hard this year. Which made it that much more fun.
- Since the puzzles weren’t engaging, I spent a lot of time staring at metas. I think I helped solve about three of them. In some ways, didn’t do much that was useful besides organizing data and people.
- Jon’s team won! Good news because that also means the person who wrote the Puzzle Boat which I really liked, will be writing next year’s hunt.
- Next year’s hunt will be different… mostly because of life circumstances. Odd feeling.
We haven’t checked this out yet, but you may like the Puzzle Boat author’s new magazine if you haven’t found it already: http://www.pandamagazine.com/index.php.