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'''MIT Mystery Hunt 2013''' was the 33rd iteration of the [[MIT Mystery Hunt]]. It was run by [[Manic Sages]], the winners of the 2012 Mystery Hunt. The hunt started with a presentation by Enigma Valley Investment & Loan, where teams learned that the running team had mortgaged the coin. The presentation is infiltrated by Alyssa P. Hacker (a reference to a character in a renown MIT computer science textbook and course, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programming), suggesting that the real objective of the hunt is to pull off a bank heist and steal the coin. In order to pull off the heist, teams needed to recruit six members. Upon recruiting each member (that is, solving the round), teams get an interaction where they get to do a practice version of an obstacle, that gets used again in the final runaround. |
'''MIT Mystery Hunt 2013''' was the 33rd iteration of the [[MIT Mystery Hunt]]. It was run by [[Manic Sages]], the winners of the [[MIT Mystery Hunt 2012|2012 Mystery Hunt]]. The hunt started with a presentation by Enigma Valley Investment & Loan, where teams learned that the running team had mortgaged the coin. The presentation is infiltrated by Alyssa P. Hacker (a reference to a character in a renown MIT computer science textbook and course, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programming), suggesting that the real objective of the hunt is to pull off a bank heist and steal the coin. In order to pull off the heist, teams needed to recruit six members. Upon recruiting each member (that is, solving the round), teams get an interaction where they get to do a practice version of an obstacle, that gets used again in the final runaround. |
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The hunt holds the record for being the longest hunt in history, with the coin being found over 75 hours after the hunt started by a team whose name was [[Alice Shrugged|the full text of ''Atlas Shrugged'']].<ref>This is despite many measures taken during the hunt in order to reduce its length, by giving teams many free answers and only requiring five out of six metas to be solved.</ref> |
The hunt holds the record for being the longest hunt in history, with the coin being found over 75 hours after the hunt started by a team whose name was [[Alice Shrugged|the full text of ''Atlas Shrugged'']].<ref>This is despite many measures taken during the hunt in order to reduce its length, by giving teams many free answers and only requiring five out of six metas to be solved.</ref> |
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Revision as of 00:44, 6 November 2022
| MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 | |
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| Running Team | Manic Sages |
| Winning Team | the full text of Atlas Shrugged |
| Timeframe and Location | |
| Location | MIT (Cambridge, MA) |
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| Hunt Link | Link |
| MIT Mystery Hunt Chronology | |
MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 was the 33rd iteration of the MIT Mystery Hunt. It was run by Manic Sages, the winners of the 2012 Mystery Hunt. The hunt started with a presentation by Enigma Valley Investment & Loan, where teams learned that the running team had mortgaged the coin. The presentation is infiltrated by Alyssa P. Hacker (a reference to a character in a renown MIT computer science textbook and course, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programming), suggesting that the real objective of the hunt is to pull off a bank heist and steal the coin. In order to pull off the heist, teams needed to recruit six members. Upon recruiting each member (that is, solving the round), teams get an interaction where they get to do a practice version of an obstacle, that gets used again in the final runaround.
The hunt holds the record for being the longest hunt in history, with the coin being found over 75 hours after the hunt started by a team whose name was the full text of Atlas Shrugged.[1]
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List of Rounds
| Round Title | Number of Feeder Puzzles | Number of Metapuzzles |
|---|---|---|
| Corporate Intranet | 6 | 1 |
| Danny Ocean | 17 | 1 |
| Richard Feynman | 25 | 1 |
| Agent 99 | 25 | 4 |
| Indiana Jones | 24 | 4 |
| Marty Bishop | 16 | 4 |
| Erno Rubik | 20 | 7 |
| Events | 6 | 0 |
| Final Runaround | 6 | 0 |
- ↑ This is despite many measures taken during the hunt in order to reduce its length, by giving teams many free answers and only requiring five out of six metas to be solved.
