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The Game Is Afoot!
Or, really, at the ankle, right now.
As part of my trip to visit![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
veek in Providence come January, I've also been planning on involving myself in the MIT Mystery Hunt. This is something I've wanted to do for a while, ever since I read an article in Games Magazine over a decade ago. The Hunt is a weekend-long puzzle competition, with several mind benders leading up to one solution, the location of a single coin. Back then, I thought it was the coolest idea ever. Today, having been exposed to many other cool ideas, I still think it ranks high up in the top ten. For the past few years, I've been downloading the puzzles as they get posted, without actually taking part. This year I intend to be in the thick of things.
I just got confirmation fromsaxikath, the team leader of ACRONYM, that, despite worries about size, there was space for me on the team. I'd been hoping for this. ACRONYM has some members from the National Puzzlers' League on it, which I thought would be fun. Initially, Sax said I probably wasn't going to be let on and that I should find another team. But I didn't do this right away, because I am lazy. Then, as I was about to ask another team, I learned that davidglasser was on ACRONYM. Suddenly, getting on to that team meant more than just getting onto a team with lots of people in the same group as I, it meant spending a weekend with someone I had known via the internet for quite a while. I decided to hold out and see if I could get on. I did. Woo, followed by Hoo.
Together, DG and I shall focus the awesome monkey power of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
ifmud and propel ACRONYM to victory. It will be so. Oh yes, it will be so.
FriNYTX: 51:15. Wow, that kicked my @$$. SatNYTX: 25:30. Saturday took half the time of Friday? All is not right with the world. SunNYTX: about 19 (screwed up the timer). SunLATX: 16:45.
As part of my trip to visit
veek in Providence come January, I've also been planning on involving myself in the MIT Mystery Hunt. This is something I've wanted to do for a while, ever since I read an article in Games Magazine over a decade ago. The Hunt is a weekend-long puzzle competition, with several mind benders leading up to one solution, the location of a single coin. Back then, I thought it was the coolest idea ever. Today, having been exposed to many other cool ideas, I still think it ranks high up in the top ten. For the past few years, I've been downloading the puzzles as they get posted, without actually taking part. This year I intend to be in the thick of things.I just got confirmation from
saxikath, the team leader of ACRONYM, that, despite worries about size, there was space for me on the team. I'd been hoping for this. ACRONYM has some members from the National Puzzlers' League on it, which I thought would be fun. Initially, Sax said I probably wasn't going to be let on and that I should find another team. But I didn't do this right away, because I am lazy. Then, as I was about to ask another team, I learned that davidglasser was on ACRONYM. Suddenly, getting on to that team meant more than just getting onto a team with lots of people in the same group as I, it meant spending a weekend with someone I had known via the internet for quite a while. I decided to hold out and see if I could get on. I did. Woo, followed by Hoo.Together, DG and I shall focus the awesome monkey power of
ifmud and propel ACRONYM to victory. It will be so. Oh yes, it will be so.FriNYTX: 51:15. Wow, that kicked my @$$. SatNYTX: 25:30. Saturday took half the time of Friday? All is not right with the world. SunNYTX: about 19 (screwed up the timer). SunLATX: 16:45.