Have you tried
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Have you tried is a popular puzzlehunt document, written by ACME in 2001. The PDF page has been cited in a lot of puzzlehunt resources, with multiple variations and versions of the same.
Other versions of the document include -
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.
- All That's Left To Do Is Extract from Teammate Hunt 2021
- Making Connections from MITMH10 from MIT Mystery Hunt 2010
- Yeah, But it Didn't Work! from MIT Mystery Hunt 2018
History
The guide was originally written by ACME members in 2001, and worked well enough to help ACME win MIT Mystery Hunt 2002.
They continued to use the guide when writing MIT Mystery Hunt 2003, and released it publicly during the hunt when teams were getting stuck on specific encodings already in the guide, including Morse code. While that did not result in teams getting unstuck, it did get picked up by other teams and became popular on it's own, spawning multiple versions and variations. It was later also listed on MIT Mystery Hunt's [beginner resources https://puzzles.mit.edu/resources.html].
The guide was likely written by Lance Nathan, Dean Sturvesant and Francis Heaney.
