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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 {{w|Time Bandits}} and decided to smash the skull earlier in the hunt, they would have been able to bypass the entire hunt and win.
|hunt_name = MIT Mystery Hunt 2004
|running_team = [[Alice Shrugged|The French Armada]]
|winning_team = [[Setec Astronomy]]
|location = MIT (Cambridge, MA)
|hunt = [[MIT Mystery Hunt]]
|prev_hunt = [[MIT Mystery Hunt 2003|2003]]
|next_hunt = [[MIT Mystery Hunt 2005|2005]]
|hunt_link = https://puzzles.mit.edu/2004/
}}


'''MIT Mystery Hunt 2004''' was the 24th iteration of the [[MIT Mystery Hunt]]. It was run by [[Alice Shrugged|The French Armada]], the winners of the [[MIT Mystery Hunt 2003|2003 Mystery Hunt]] (as Kappa Sig). The theme of the hunt was based on the film ''{{w|Time Bandits}}''. Prior to the hunt, a set of {{L|Publicity Puzzles|publicity puzzles}} were released.
No team did this, so [[Setec Astronomy|Setec]] had to win the hard way.

{{to do}}
==List of Rounds ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!Round Title
!Number of Feeder Puzzles
!Number of Metapuzzles
|-
|{{L|NeoTokyo}}||12||1
|-
|{{L|Vatican}}||14||1
|-
|{{L|Pirates}}||15||1
|-
|{{L|Las Vegas}}||15||1
|-
|{{L|Aztec}}||15||1
|-
|{{L|Yukon}}||12||1
|-
|{{L|Timbuktu}}||16||1
|-
|{{L|Titanic}}||10||1
|-
|{{L|Booty Metas}}||0<ref>Answers are reused from earlier round feeders</ref>||4
|-
|colspan=3|<center>'''{{L|Endgame}}'''</center>
|}

== Reviews and Write Ups ==
=== Writeups from organizers ===
* Anand Sarwate - [https://ergodicity.net/2004/06/26/misery-punt/ misery punt]
* Jeff Barrett - [http://www.foonyor.com/2004/01/mystery-hunt-withdrawal_21.html Mystery Hunt Withdrawal] - [http://www.foonyor.com/2004/01/too-many-secrets.html Too Many Secrets] - [http://www.foonyor.com/2004/06/we-sucked.html We Sucked] - [http://www.foonyor.com/2005/01/writing-hunt.html Writing a Hunt]
* John Owens - [https://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~jowens/game/mitmh.html]
=== Writeups from others ===
* Aaron Fuegi - [http://scv.bu.edu/~aarondf/hearth/archives/000155.html MIT Mystery Hunt 2004 - Maps and Time Bandits]
* emengee - [https://emengee.livejournal.com/36482.html Mystery Hunt]
* Eric Berlin - [https://web.archive.org/web/20040201033025/http://www.ericberlin.com:80/mt/archives/2004_01.html Random Observations From the Hunt]
* foggyb - [https://foggyb.livejournal.com/11213.html Getting Back on Track]
* Heaneyland! - [http://www.yarnivore.com/francis/archives/000179.html I went to the Mystery Hunt and it was fine]
* jadelennox - [https://jadelennox.dreamwidth.org/82458.html ramblings]
* noahspuzzlelj - [http://deadlymantis.blogspot.com/2004/01/i-spent-all-weekend-working-on-mit.html (no subject)]
* prog - [https://prog.livejournal.com/259966.html Longest birthday party ever.] - [https://prog.livejournal.com/260546.html (no subject)]
* tablesaw - [https://tablesaw.dreamwidth.org/187641.html Still Angry.]
===Other Media===
* The Tech - [https://thetech.com/issues/123/65/pdf Setec Astronomy Wins French Armada’s Mystery Hunt, Sixty-Eight Hour Hunt Longest Game in Recent Memory]

== Trivia ==

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* 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 ''{{w|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 Astronomy|Setec]] had to win the hard way.

== Notes ==

Latest revision as of 21:40, 18 September 2023

MIT Mystery Hunt 2004
Running TeamThe French Armada
Winning TeamSetec Astronomy
Timeframe and Location
LocationMIT (Cambridge, MA)
Links
Hunt LinkLink
MIT Mystery Hunt Chronology
← 2003
2005 →


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 TO DO

List of Rounds[edit | edit source]

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[1] 4
Endgame

Reviews and Write Ups[edit | edit source]

Writeups from organizers[edit | edit source]

Writeups from others[edit | edit source]

Other Media[edit | edit source]

Trivia[edit | edit source]

  • 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.

Notes[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Answers are reused from earlier round feeders
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