Individual Puzzles at the Hunt.

The actual puzzles for the Hunt aren't going to be up until this weekend, so I'll start on them now. I'm cutting the rest of this post because it will have spoilers for many Hunt puzzles. If you're interested in getting a chance to look at or solve them before you read the spoilers, you should probably wait until the Hunt is made publicly available. I'll make an announcement and relink to this post when that happens.

I think I'm going to talk about metas and structure separately. First, here are the puzzles I worked on:

• Little Rascals
  
• Mystery Rallye
  
• Knots and Crosswords
  
• Remember This?
  
• Spectral Analysis
  
• Alien Species
  
• Manual Transmission
  
• Magnetic Poetry
  
• The Bottom Line
  
• Character Witness
  
• Big Musical Number
  
• Frontal Lobotomy
  
• Campsite
  
• Confession
  
• Special Ops
  
• Son of the Realm of Unspeakable Chaos
  
• Talk to Me

( Details on the puzzles I worked on )

I'll be writing more, but I need a break first. The process of solving a hunt, then running a hunt, then solving a hunt again, and then getting ready to write and run another hunt has gotten me thinking about these puzzles differently, and I feel like I need to say more than what was cool and what wasn't.

Another Thing

I'd meant to post this last night to be a short post for the 24th before spending a long time writing about the hunt, but I forgot to set my alarm. I didn't sleep well the day before, so my body took the opportunity to sleep well past the time I was supposed to go into work. ojouchan was out singing karaoke, so I didn't realize anything was wrong until she frantically woke me up when she got home.

Anyway, the most mindblowing thing that happened during the Hunt wasn't puzzle related, it was discovering that ennirol, who I'd met almost two years earlier, not grew up near me, but took classes with my high-school drama teacher. In fact, I'd seen her in a play with my friends, gone out to eat, and had dinner with her. She'd also seen me perform in my high-school musical my senior year as Van Buren in Damn Yankees.

It's one of those really, really crazy things that don't seem so crazy until you think about it. This person, who I first met about ten years ago, came to me again through a friend who lives in New York because of an event held in Boston. And I didn't know about it until my fiancée started talking to her.

Actually, that last part about Ojou isn't so surprising.

Photos.

I uploaded the pics from my camera today, but most of them sucked. I didn't remember to take too many during the Hunt, and the group photos didn't turn out so well.

The only ones I like were from Boxwood Hall, where ojouchan worked in high school. We went to visit her friend and former boss. I put them up on Picasa for the hell of it.

There are a few pictures elsewhere, though. ennirol got some better group photos in her Flickr set. And Katherine has many pictures, mostly of Hunt HQ, but also of us finding the coin. My favorite picture is this one: