MIT Mystery Hunt 2013

MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 was the 33rd iteration of the MIT Mystery Hunt. It was run by Manic Sages, the winners of the 2012 Mystery Hunt. The hunt started with a presentation by Enigma Valley Investment & Loan, where teams learned that the running team had mortgaged the coin. The presentation is infiltrated by Alyssa P. Hacker (a reference to a character in a renown MIT computer science textbook and course, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programming), suggesting that the real objective of the hunt is to pull off a bank heist and steal the coin. In order to pull off the heist, teams needed to recruit six members. Upon recruiting each member (that is, solving the round), teams get an interaction where they get to do a practice version of an obstacle, that gets used again in the final runaround.

The hunt holds the record for being the longest hunt in history, with the coin being found over 75 hours after the hunt started by a team whose name was the full text of Atlas Shrugged.