MIT Mystery Hunt 2004

MIT Mystery Hunt 2004
Running Team	The French Armada
Winning Team	Setec Astronomy
Timeframe and Location
Location	MIT (Cambridge, MA)
Links
Hunt Link	Link
MIT Mystery Hunt Chronology

MIT Mystery Hunt 2004 was the 24th iteration of the MIT Mystery Hunt. It was run by The French Armada, the winners of the 2003 Mystery Hunt (as Kappa Sig). The theme of the hunt was based on the film Time Bandits. Prior to the hunt, a set of publicity puzzles were released.

TO DO

List of Rounds

Round Title	Number of Feeder Puzzles	Number of Metapuzzles
NeoTokyo	12	1
Vatican	14	1
Pirates	15	1
Las Vegas	15	1
Aztec	15	1
Yukon	12	1
Timbuktu	16	1
Titanic	10	1
Booty Metas	0	4
Endgame

Reviews and Write Ups

Writeups from organizers

• Anand Sarwate - misery punt
• Jeff Barrett - Mystery Hunt Withdrawal - Too Many Secrets - We Sucked - Writing a Hunt
• John Owens - [1]

Writeups from others

• Aaron Fuegi - MIT Mystery Hunt 2004 - Maps and Time Bandits
• emengee - Mystery Hunt
• Eric Berlin - Random Observations From the Hunt
• foggyb - Getting Back on Track
• Heaneyland! - I went to the Mystery Hunt and it was fine
• jadelennox - ramblings
• noahspuzzlelj - (no subject)
• prog - Longest birthday party ever. - (no subject)
• tablesaw - Still Angry.

Other Media

• The Tech - Setec Astronomy Wins French Armada’s Mystery Hunt, Sixty-Eight Hour Hunt Longest Game in Recent Memory

Trivia

• Teams were given a plaster skull at the beginning of the hunt. Inside the skull was a map to the coin, and, at some point during the final runaround, teams needed to smash the skull to get through a wall, thus revealing the map. If any team had thought much about the plot points of the movie Time Bandits and decided to smash the skull earlier in the hunt, they would have been able to bypass the entire hunt and win. No team did this, so Setec had to win the hard way.