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* [[MIT Mystery Hunt 2010/Making Connections|Making Connections from MITMH10]] from [[MIT Mystery Hunt 2010]] |
* [[MIT Mystery Hunt 2010/Making Connections|Making Connections from MITMH10]] from [[MIT Mystery Hunt 2010]] |
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* [[MIT Mystery Hunt 2018/Yeah, But it Didn't Work!|Yeah, But it Didn't Work!]] from [[MIT Mystery Hunt 2018]] |
* [[MIT Mystery Hunt 2018/Yeah, But it Didn't Work!|Yeah, But it Didn't Work!]] from [[MIT Mystery Hunt 2018]] |
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== Have you tried == |
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''This list is an incomplete mirror and expansion of the "Have you Tried" document. Please help Puzzle Wiki improve by expanding it.'' |
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=== For starters - Have you tried... === |
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* ...reading the title and the blurb? |
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* ...googling things? |
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* ...writing down all observations and hints you can, even if not answer related? |
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* ...looking at the list of helpful websites? |
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* ...pursuing every train of thought that doesn’t seem to give an answer at first? |
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* ...reading through title and flavourtext again, maybe googling them? |
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* ...looking at the binder of useful stuff? |
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* ...starting to organise all info in one place in the sheet? |
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* ...writing down what you think the puzzle could be? |
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=== Letters and words - Have you tried... === |
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* ...alphabetizing? |
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* ...using the leftover letters to spell something? |
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* ...putting it on nutrimatic? |
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* ...rearranging the letters (aka “anagramming” or “transposing”)? |
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* ...looking for unusual letter frequencies? |
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* ...determining if it is a Caesar shift in general? |
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* ...looking for a number you can index into? What words can you index from the number? |
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* ...shifting from letters to numbers? |
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* ...diagonalizing (taking the first letter of the first answer, the second letter of the second...)? |
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* ...taking first letter, or last letter, or average of two letters? |
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* ...looking for weirdness with the words, like repeated letters, or common phrases? |
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* ...sorting the words by length to see weirdness? |
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* ...seeing if they have interesting substrings (Like every word has "OR" in it) |
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* ...checking for similar words (homophones / one letter edit / homonyms) |
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* ...treating letters as call letters? |
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* ...treating letters as protein sequences? |
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* ...seeing if these words relate to song lyrics? |
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* ...seeing if there are any acronyms of phrases? |
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* ...turning it into a cryptic crossword clue? |
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* ...looking at a computer keyboard? |
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* ...a pun? |
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* ...googling the words to see if we're missing something? |
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=== Numbers - Have you tried... === |
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* ...graphing it functionally? |
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* ...graphing it parametrically? |
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* ...googling numbers? |
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* ...putting them on OEIS to see if it's a known pattern? |
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* ...checking to see if your numbers are in the right base (including hex)? |
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* ...shifting from numbers to letters? |
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* ...loooking for patterns in the numbers? |
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* ...treating numbers as atomic weights, numbers, etc.? |
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* ...treating numbers as dates? |
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* ...using it as a phone number? |
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* ...using it as an IP address? |
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* ...matching numbers to MIT buildings/courses? |
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* ...treating numbers as latitude/longitude or GPS coordinates? |
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* ...treating numbers as radio stations? |
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* ...treating numbers as ASCII numbers? |
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* ...treating numbers as PLU numbers? |
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* ...treating numbers as ISBN numbers? |
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* ...seeing if there are any strange sequences? |
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* ...seeing if prime numbers are involved? |
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* ...seeing if fundamental constants are involved? |
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* ...asking what other numbers are close to the one you have? |
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* ...googling the flavourtext again to see if it has hints? |
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* ...Searching for a themed set of items that is numbered to use as a conversion |
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=== Ways of looking at a Puzzle - Have you tried... === |
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* ...looking at it in the mirror? |
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* ...squinting at it from far away? |
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* ...tilting it? |
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* ...looking at it upside down? |
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* ...looking through it? |
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* ...rewriting it neatly? |
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* ...rewriting it on graph paper? |
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* ...saying it out loud to someone else? |
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* ...putting yourself in the constructor’s shoes? |
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* ...making it 3D? |
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* ...cutting it up? |
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* ...folding it? |
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* ...connecting the dots? |
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=== What is it? - Have you tried... === |
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* ...looking at a song/poem/book/movie/TV show? |
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* ...Braille? |
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* ...Morse code? |
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* ...overlaying it on a map of MIT? |
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* ...getting on the T? |
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* ...checking it for pop culture references with Tanis, Jenn, Denis or James? |
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* ...using the Library of Congress or Dewey decimal system? |
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* ...asking whether it has anything to do personally with the constructing team? |
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* ...Palm graffiti? |
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* ...running it by someone who goes to MIT? |
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* ...googling it again? |
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=== Zen - Have you tried... === |
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* ...trusting your instincts? |
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* ...trusting someone else’s instincts? |
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* ...asking “what’s weird about this?” |
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* ...taking a step back? |
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* ...asking for fresh brains? |
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* ...checking your work? |
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* ...asking someone else to check your work? |
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* ...explaining your work to someone else? |
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* ...doing what you’ve already done again to the output? |
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* ...consulting the list of expertise? |
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* ...leaving the room? |
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* ...asking people if it looks like anything they recognize? |
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* ...thinking about what’s missing? |
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* ...asking yourself whether you’ve used all the information? |
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* ...keeping even a strange-looking result? |
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* ...brute force? |
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* ...not thinking about it? |
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* ...splitting up tasks to solve in a group? |
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* ...talking to a hunt veteran? |
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* ...talking to a hunt newbie? |
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* ...asking “what’s the pattern”? |
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* ...rereading the instructions? |
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* ...rereading the title and flavour? |
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* ...googling everything again? |
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Revision as of 00:16, 16 February 2024
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Have you tried is a popular puzzlehunt document, written by ACME in 2000s. The PDF page has been cited in a lot of puzzlehunt resources, with multiple variations and versions of the same.
The document has inspired Have you tried (team), the name of a puzzlehunt team. The document is also the inspiration/data source behind multiple hunt puzzles. Some of them are given below.
