MIT Mystery Hunt 2014
| MIT Mystery Hunt 2014 | |
|---|---|
| Running Team | Alice Shrugged |
| Winning Team | One Fish Two Fish Random Fish Blue Fish |
| Timeframe and Location | |
| Location | MIT (Cambridge, MA) |
| Links | |
| Hunt Link | Link |
| MIT Mystery Hunt Chronology | |
MIT Mystery Hunt 2014 was the 34th iteration of the MIT Mystery Hunt. It was run by Alice Shrugged, the winners of the 2013 Mystery Hunt (with the full text of Atlas Shrugged as their name). The theme was Alice in Wonderland, a fakeout from the original theme of a research symposium featuring speaker John Galt. The winning team was One Fish Two Fish Random Fish Blue Fish.
TO DO
List of Rounds[edit | edit source]
| Round Title | Number of Feeder Puzzles | Number of Metapuzzles |
|---|---|---|
| MIT | 24 | 4 |
| The Tea Party | 16 | 1 |
| The Mock Turtle | 13 | 1 |
| The White Queen | 18 | 1 |
| The Red and White Knights | 16 | 1 |
| The Caucus Race | 14 | 1 |
| Humpty Dumpty | 14 | 1 |
| Events | 4 | 0 |
| Final Runaround | 5 | 0 |
Mentions in Other Media[edit | edit source]
- Boston Magazine - The Thrill of MIT's Mystery Hunt
- The Tech - Mystery Hunt coin found in Courtyard
Reviews and Write Ups[edit | edit source]
From Alice Shrugged[edit | edit source]
- coendou - Mystery Hunt Write-Up, Part 1
- colossusofrhode - Writing a Mystery Hunt - A Mystery Hunt Design Philosophy
- intotheweeds - The 2014 MIT Mystery Hunt - Alice Shrugged
Others[edit | edit source]
- Tumblr collection - Alice Shrugged Recap
- 530nm330hz - One Mystery Hunt thought for now
- claviscryptica - MIT Mystery Hunt 2014 Recap – Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4
- cougarfang - (no subject)
- devjoe - MIT Mystery Hunt 2014, part 1 (pre-Hunt and the MIT round) - part 2 (parts of the Tea Party, Mock Turtle, and White Queen rounds) - part 3 (bits of several rounds up to my sleeping break) - part 4 (Saturday afternoon with all the rounds open) - part 5 (Saturday evening through end of Hunt)
- dougo - The Tea Party meta
- dr_whom - Alice in Puzzle-Land - Puzzles in Alice-Land
- dr4b - My long overdue MIT Mystery Hunt entry
- Eric Berlin - Gotta Catch Them All
- Joe Bohanon - MIT Mystery Hunt Wrap-Up Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6
- mystery_fish - Oh, you can't help that. We're all mad here.
- Neville Fogarty - Puzzle #80: Medusa's Lair
- Piper '13 (MIT Admissions Blog) - —-.—… – . .-. -.—/ …. ..- -. -!
- rhysara - (no subject)
- sniffnoy - Mystery Hunt 2014 roundup
- Tanya Khovanova - Mathy Problems from the 2014 MIT Mystery Hunt
- Tyler Hinman - Down the Rabbit Hole
Leaderboard[edit | edit source]
The top 8 teams were ordered by when they finished the last metapuzzle (based on a reconstruction from a number of sources, see ref link for full work).[1] All other teams are ordered by the number of solves that they had by the end of the hunt, using this graph as a reference.
| Rank | Team | Solves |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | One Fish Two Fish Random Fish Blue Fish | 119 |
| 2 | We're Up All Night To Get Lucky | 110 |
| 3 | Left Out | 119 |
| 4 | Codex Gigas | 119 |
| 5 | Death and Mayhem | 115 |
| 6 | Palindrome | 118 |
| 7 | Immoral, Illegal, and Fattening | 107 |
| 8 | Metaphysical Plant | 108 |
| 9 | Setec Astronomy | 106 |
| 10 | Galactic Dogesetters | 105 |
| 11 | Up Late | 103 |
| 12 | The Rage of the Quebecois | 99 |
| 13 | Central Services | 86 |
| 14 | The Providence Transplantations | 78 |
| 15 | Wafflehaus | 78 |
- ↑ Random won, so are 1st. They probably finished their last meta around 10PM Saturday. Luck finishes last meta 11PM Saturday Left Out finished last meta 11:50PM Saturday Codex 4th, likely finishing their last meta around 2AM Sunday. D&M 5th by process of elimination, likely finishing their last meta around 5AM Sunday. Palindrome 6th, last meta 8AM Sunday IIF finishes hunt, towards the end Plant 8th (last team to finish)
