MIT Mystery Hunt 2018
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| MIT Mystery Hunt 2018 | |
|---|---|
| Running Team | Life & Order (Death & Mayhem) |
| Winning Team | Setec Astronomy |
| Timeframe and Location | |
| Location | MIT (Cambridge, MA) |
| Links | |
| Hunt Link | Link |
| MIT Mystery Hunt Chronology | |
MIT Mystery Hunt 2018 was the 38th iteration of the MIT Mystery Hunt. It was run by "Life & Order", a renaming of Death & Mayhem, and themed after the Pixar movie Inside Out.
TO DO
List of Rounds[edit | edit source]
| Round Title | Number of Feeder Puzzles | Number of Metapuzzles |
|---|---|---|
| Emotions and Memories | 34 | 6 |
| Games Island | 18 | 2 |
| Pokémon Island | 18 +6 backsolve-only | 4 |
| Sci-Fi Island | 18 | 7 |
| Hacking Island | 22 | 4 |
| Grand Finale | 0 | 1 |
Mentions in Other Media[edit | edit source]
- Fivethirtyeight - Can You Stay Awake For 50 Hours And Solve 150 Puzzles? by Oliver Roeder
- The Tech, newspaper at MIT - Setec Astronomy wins 2018 Mystery Hunt by Tu-Lan Vu-Han
Reviews and write-ups[edit | edit source]
From the organizing team[edit | edit source]
- Ryan Veeder - 2018 MIT Mystery Hunt
- Tanya Khovanova - My 2018 MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzles - Mathy Puzzles at 2018 MIT Mystery Hunt - Punny Puzzles at the MIT Mystery Hunt
- Reddit AMA
From solvers[edit | edit source]
- Alex Irpan - MIT Mystery Hunt 2018
- betaveros - 2018 MIT Mystery Hunt
- conveyorspeedmax - 2018 MIT Mystery Hunt Recap
- Dan Katz - Part 1: General Thoughts - Part 2: My Meta Experience - Part 3: My Meta Experience, Continued - Part 4: Some Puzzles
- devjoe - part 1 - part 2 - part 3
- dr_whom - Mystery Hunt feelings
- extratricky - Overall Thoughts - Individual Puzzles
- fortenforge - MIT Mystery Hunt 2018: The Puzzles
- intirb - (reddit comment)
- Joe Bohanon - Mystery Hunt 2018 Wrap Up
- lahosken - MIT Mystery Hunt 2018, Left Coast Left Out
- Michael Andersen - Falling Down the Puzzle Hunt Rabbit Hole
- phenomist - 2018 MIT Mystery Hunt Recap
- seekingferret - 1 - 2
- sniffnoy - 2018 Mystery Hunt roundup
Leaderboard[edit | edit source]
The leaderboard is generated from the solve log CSV provided. Finishing teams are ranked by when they unlocked the "Grand Finale" interaction (unlocked with all four world supermeta solves), and teams that did not finish are ranked by number of solves, tiebroken by last solve time.
| Rank | Team | Solves | Finish Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Setec Astronomy | 157 | 2018-01-14 3:33:47 PM |
| 2 | Team Left Out | 159 | 2018-01-14 5:59:24 PM |
| 3 | Palindrome | 159 | 2018-01-14 6:00:30 PM |
| 4 | (Still Just A) Cat in a Rage | 159 | 2018-01-14 8:56:14 PM |
| 5 | ✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈ | 159 | 2018-01-14 9:29:59 PM |
| 6 | Holiday Hallmark Classics | 156 | 2018-01-14 9:59:53 PM |
| 7 | Super Team Awesome | 159 | 2018-01-14 11:35:01 PM |
| 8 | Codex Vorbis | 151 | 2018-01-15 3:33:22 AM |
| 9 | The Team to Be Named Later | 154 | 2018-01-15 7:20:15 AM |
| 10 | teammate | 151 | 2018-01-15 7:22:59 AM |
| 11 | Hunches in Bunches | 155 | 2018-01-15 8:17:34 AM |
| 12 | Metaphysical Plant | 152 | |
| 13 | Up Late | 149 | |
| 14 | Left as an Exercise for the Reader | 147 | |
| 15 | Immoral, Illegal, and Fattening | 146 | |
| 16 | Central Services | 143 | |
| 17 | Funny Enough | 121 | |
| 18 | Wafflehaüs | 121 | |
| 19 | Frumious Bandersnatch | 119 | |
| 20 | The Providence Transplantations | 117 |
