Come and Getty

[tablesaw]

Last week, on Thursday July 7, I arranged a trip to the Getty Institute for the conventioners of the National Puzzlers' League. From what everyone was telling me, a good time was had by all. I'm not that surprised by that. What I am surprised by is the amount of people who were impressed by the puzzle handout I created for the event. I had thought that it was a minor little thing that would help direct people to different places around the museum. But people have been very, well, impressed.

I've made the handout available here. If you were to take this to the Getty today, all puzzles would be solvable except for puzzle E.

I'm going to be writing up my notes on the puzzles soon, once I can figure out how best to organize them.

Comments

[acroarcs.livejournal.com]

Personally, I was impressed because the puzzles were fun but not difficult, involved different types of solving, and led to many different parts of the center without requiring a huge amount of walking. In addition, the Getty Center was just cool as it was, and the puzzle handout was geared toward both a relaxed trip around the center while solving and allowed plenty of time for browsing after.

Some of the puzzles and the reveals for their locations were awesome as well. The anainstruction reveal blew me away.

[saxikath]

The puzzles were fun, and I was amazed by the amount of effort you'd clearly put into finding interesting, quirky things in the museum. I never did get to see puzzle E; that room was full every time we tried to go there. But the rest was great.

And you may yet see puzzle D's location in the Enigma. :)

My First in a Long Time

[(Anonymous)]

I said this in person, Tablesaw, but it bears repeating, I thought the Getty hunt was TERRIFIC. It was my first hunt at my first Con (I last did a hunt at MIT in 1989) and it was everything I'd hoped it would be. It was a great introduction for hunt newbies like me and the veterans obviously enjoyed it as well.

--Jeffurry

impressed

[(Anonymous)]

I was impressed -- it was fun, varied, well thought-out, at about the right level of difficulty, very suitable for group solving, and appropriate to its audience in its fine use of some Enigma puzzle types. The balance between puzzles you could solve on paper and puzzles that required finding something on the site turned out to be just about right. One of the top two events of this sort in my 20 cons. (Not that I did all the hunts at all the cons.)

It was perhaps a little too big, in that I had to not do two of the puzzles in order to have time to see the Rembrandt portraits. But that's mostly because LA is too big... a lot of time had to be spent on the way to and from the museum.

--Hot