MIT Mystery Hunt 2014
MIT Mystery Hunt 2014 | |
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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
Round Title | Number of Feeder Puzzles | Number of Metapuzzles |
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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 |
Leaderboard
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 |
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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)