NES

NES is a team that participates in both the MIT Mystery Hunt and online hunts. The team was founded in 2019 as N3XT, named after Next House in MIT. NES placed in the top 20 for both the 2021 and 2022 Mystery Hunts.

History
NES's membership primarily consists of residents and recent alumni of Next House. In 2019, they competed in the 2019 MIT Mystery Hunt as N3XT, named due to the members being from the third floor (3W/3E wings). Later in 2019, the team participated in the Smogon Puzzle Hunt as National 3rosion Service, a reference to an incorrect guess submitted in that Mystery Hunt. In 2020, they merged with two other small Next House teams, TWTW ("Two West Three West", comprising the 2W/3W wings of Next House), and 2MysterE from the 2E wing of Next House, to become NES. NES has no official longform name.

For online hunts, NES generally fields two subteams. Both teams have the initialism NES, and are often thematic to the hunt theme. One of the subteams generally competes as Needlessly Eating [object starting with the letter S]. For hunts that allow teams to submit an personalized image, this subteam includes a picture of a person eating all previous objects that have been needlessly eaten from past hunts.