MIT Mystery Hunt 2021/Students

The Students make up one of the first available rounds of the 2021 MIT Mystery Hunt, with the first puzzles being accessible immediately upon entering the Projection Device, but with the final metas requiring much more progression due to the scattered nature of the puzzle givers throughout the entire map.

Description

Puzzle selection menu for the Students round.

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Navigation Puzzle

Click to revealThe book shows each NPC puzzle giver and their immediate surroundings. Solvers must locate these NPCs. By talking to the NPC, the corresponding puzzle is unlocked. Since there are many NPCs in this round (although not all NPC's are available from the start of opening the hunt, and more are unlocked as teams progress through hunt), it's also a viable strategy to just talk to NPC's in the Projection Device while exploring or walking to various locations on campus, and use the pictures only for locating the last few NPCs.

List of Puzzles

★	15x15	Alternate Controls	At A Loss For Words	Beverage Blunders	Blind Calculation
Bombs	Cacophony	Circles	Cooperation	Countries	Crossed Out
Cryptic Transmission	Debate Quotes	Doctor's Orders	Exactly	Express Yourself	FedEx
Film	Fish Hybridization	Form	Got Milk?	Heart of the Cards	Homemade Photography
Illiterate Programming	Let's Get The Ball Rolling	Lime Sand Season	Look At What We Drew	Magic Words	Musical Theatre Guild
Namesake	No, I Understand You Perfectly	Numbers	Nutrition Facts	Over 9,000: an Abbreviated Yet Awesome Tour Of Your First Equally Excellent Puzzle Mechanic	Paint
People Wear Clothes	Plus or Minus	Recursion	Relitasti	Rhythm Game Arcade	Simplicity
Sketchy Site	Stay Hydrated	Thank You To Our Sponsors	That Sinking Feeling	The Game	The Lexicographer Looks After His Own
Things	Tic Tac Toe	Triangles	Unraveling The Mystery	Whodunit	Who's That Pokémon?

Metapuzzle (Maseeh Hall)

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Metapuzzle (McCormick Hall)

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Metapuzzle (Baker House)

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Metapuzzle (Burton-Conner)

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Metapuzzle (MacGregor House)

The puzzle description is an April Fool's video of puzzle Youtuber Mr. Puzzle trying to solve a two-piece giraffe jigsaw puzzle.

Click to revealThis meta takes two answers, with the meta answer simply being the combination of the two answers to form a well-known phrase.

Metapuzzle (New House)

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Metapuzzle (Next House)

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Metametapuzzle (Dorm Row)

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Metapuzzle (Simmons Hall)

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Metapuzzle (EAsT camPUS)

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Metapuzzle (Random Hall)

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Metametapuzzle (Student Center)

Click to revealAll feeder puzzles, as well as additional information associated with each puzzle, are used in this metameta. In addition, the four high-level submetas (combining all the dorm row dorms into Dorm Row) are thematically linked, offering a potential hint to the metameta mechanism. TO DO