MIT Mystery Hunt 2011

MIT Mystery Hunt 2011
Running Team	Metaphysical Plant
Winning Team	Codex
Timeframe and Location
Location	MIT (Cambridge, MA)
Links
Hunt Link	Link
MIT Mystery Hunt Chronology

MIT Mystery Hunt 2011 was the 31st iteration of the MIT Mystery Hunt. It was run by Metaphysical Plant, the winners of the 2010 Mystery Hunt. The theme of the hunt was video games, beginning with a wedding between Mario and Peach at kickoff, when Peach is kidnapped by Bowser. Mario has to traverse through several different video game worlds in order to rescue Princess Peach. Codex was the first team to find the coin.

TO DO

List of Rounds

Round Title	Number of Feeder Puzzles	Number of Metapuzzles
Mario	21	4
Mega Man	30	7
Zelda	9 Click to revealEach puzzle has 3 answers, for a total of 27 answers	4
Civilization	24	7
Katamari Damacy	20	3
Endgame

Mentions in Other Media

• The Tech - Codex wins Hunt in 42 hours
• Boston Globe - Aha!

Reviews and Write Ups

From Metaphysical Plant

• dr_whom - We had a Mystery Hunt - I wrote some puzzles - Other people wrote some puzzles
• mystery_fish - And all of next year's Hunt is still unsolved
• noahspuzzlelj - How Codex won hunt
• okosut - Hunt Write-Up
• redcat9 - Made it to January 17
• Ricky Liu - Ricky Liu's post-Hunt thoughts, part I - part II

Others

• 530nm330hz - My stery Hunt 2011
• Alex Calhoun - Your Princess Is in Another Game: The 2011 MIT Mystery Hunt
• Andrew Plotkin - Puzzle structure in 2015
• brokenwndw - Another Review
• cesium12 - Walkthrough
• colossusofrhode - MH2K11
• cougarfang - I hope this fits in the entry box o_o;;
• dalryaug - Hunt 2011: Our princess is... somewhere else
• Dan Katz - Hunt Report (better late than never)
• devjoe - Mystery Hunt 2011
• Eric Berlin - This Magic Moment
• Eric Prestemon - 2011 Mystery Hunt - Squared Key, from MIT Mystery Hunt 2011
• foggyb - (no subject)
• motris - What a Wedding! - 2011 Mystery Hunt Report
• qaqaq - 2011 Mystery Hunt - Part II
• rhysara - (no subject)
• snowspinner - Wrap-Up - Wrap-Up Part Deux: The Puzzles
• sniffnoy - Mystery hunt roundup
• tablesaw - Mystery Hunt Recs
• tacotortoise - Yet another Hunt recap
• tahnan - 2011 Mystery Hunt
• Tanya Khovanova - A Math Guide to the MIT Mystery Hunt 2011
• Tyler Hinman - Peachy keen
• Yan Z. - Mr. E. Hunt

Leaderboard

Data taken from the solve log provided in this link. Finishers are ranked by the last meta solve. Other teams are ranked by number of solves.

Rank	Team	Solves	Finish Time
1	Codex Alimentarius	104	2011-01-16 3:09:40 AM
2	Manic Sages	106	2011-01-16 5:26:06 AM
3	The Team Your Team Could Smell Like	106	2011-01-16 6:17:47 AM
4	Luck, Luck, Goose	102	2011-01-16 1:35:42 PM
5	Random Answer Generator	95
6	Immoral, Illegal, and Fattening	85
7	Left Out	85
8	Setec Astronomy	82
9	Palindrome (Stacy's Super-Aware Pussycats)	75
10	The Silly Hat Brigade	65
11	Death From Above	62
12	Project Electric Mayhem	60
13	Battlestar Electronica	58
14	Central Services	55
15	Up Late	42

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