MIT Mystery Hunt 2009
| MIT Mystery Hunt 2009 | |
|---|---|
| Running Team | The Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb At Midnight |
| Winning Team | Beginner's Luck |
| Timeframe and Location | |
| Location | MIT (Cambridge, MA) |
| Links | |
| Hunt Link | Link |
| MIT Mystery Hunt Chronology | |
MIT Mystery Hunt 2009 was the 29th iteration of the MIT Mystery Hunt. It was run by The Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb At Midnight, the winners of the 2008 Mystery Hunt. The theme of the hunt was the fictional board game Escape from Zyzzlvaria, which was first introduced in the 2002 Mystery Hunt puzzle "D2: The Mighty Duck Konundrum". The setting from that puzzle was greatly expanded, and teams were given a copy of the board game, with aspects of the board game being used throughout the hunt.
TO DO
List of Rounds[edit | edit source]
| Round Title | Number of Feeder Puzzles | Number of Metapuzzles |
|---|---|---|
| Planet Pluto | 8 | 1 |
| The ATM | 5 | 1 |
| Hiigara | 7 | 1 |
| Castor & Pollux | 5 | 1 |
| Kronos | 9 | 1 |
| Harvoid Constellation | 7 | 1 |
| Virtual Sectors | 14 | 1 |
| Combat Simulator | 12 | 1 |
| Orbital Nexus | 8 Click to revealEach puzzle has 4 variations, which during hunt would randomly be selected. | 1 |
| Astro Jail | 16 | 1 |
| Lazyr Zone | 12 | 1 |
| Reverse Dimension | 18 Click to revealPuzzles needed to be paired up so that their answers would form cluephrases for 8 answers and 1 instruction phrase used to do the meta. | 1 |
Mentions in Other Media[edit | edit source]
- The Tech - 'Beginner's Luck' Wins 63-Hour Mystery Hunt
Reviews and Write Ups[edit | edit source]
By Evil Midnight[edit | edit source]
- Dan Katz - (Part 1) - Part 2 of my Hunt posting: Puzzles I wrote (or helped write) in Inner Zyzzlvaria. - Part 3: Puzzles I wrote in Outer Zyzzlvaria
- Heaneyland! - Sixteen things (plus one)
- motris - Mystery Hunt Warp-up?
Others[edit | edit source]
- 530nm330hz - Mystery Hunt Wrapup
- Aaron Fuegi - Mystery Hunt 2009
- cananian - Mystery Hunt lessons
- dalryaug - Hunt 2009: Zyzzlvaria and back again
- davidglasser - yet another hunt report
- devjoe - Mystery Hunt over - Reverse Dimension - Other puzzles I worked on - Supplies
- dougo - ZyzzlCon 3009, part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4
- dr_whom - Prisoners of Zyzzlvaria - The post where I comment on a few specific puzzles
- dumble - Mystery Hunt thoughts
- emengee - Just a Few Thoughts
- gwillen - Mystery Hunt!
- humbletoafault - Quickest Hunt Thoughts
- jadelennox - Escape from Zyzzlvaria
- mystery_fish - MH2k9
- noahspuzzlelj - Zyzzlvaria
- okosut - That's 9
- oonh - hunt wrapup
- prog - Off to the strike
- qaqaq - Mystery Hunt 2009 - And now, the long version
- rford - (no subject)
- rhysara - 2009 Mystery Hunt
- Tanya Khovanova - Sexacholics at MIT Mystery Hunt - A Math Guide to the MIT Mystery Hunt
- Todd Etter - The 2009 MIT Mystery Hunt
- Yan Z. - Good Will Mystery Hunting
- zandperl - Hunt 2009: Spaceship
