Come and Getty

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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

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