MIT Mystery Hunt 2023/The Wyrmhole

The Wyrmhole is one of AI rounds from the 2023 MIT Mystery Hunt unlocked after Reactivation is solved. TO DO

Description

Visually, the round is displayed as a sheet of grid paper, with a hole torn out in the middle. The hole reveals the round page, with clickable images corresponding to the puzzles. Solving a meta unlocks the next layer, which uses the previous meta answer as one of the feeders. Once multiple layers are open, the layers can be traversed by clicking on the magnifying glass to zoom in and out. Click to revealUpon solving the fourth layer, it turns out that the meta is in fact a feeder of the first layer, creating a loop. This also opens up the metameta to this round.

List of Puzzles

Layer 1

In this layer, the feeder puzzles are identical to various Museum act puzzles and also have identical answers.

• ♊ - puzzle from the World History round
• Brain Freeze - puzzle from the Science round
• Collage - puzzle from the Art round
• Natural Transformation - puzzle from the Science round
• Showcase - puzzle from the Atrium round
• You're Telling Me - puzzle from the Atrium round
• Meta: The Legend

Layer 2

• The Legend - meta from the previous layer
• 4D Geo
• Degeneration and Regeneration
• Endless Knots
• Izzy's Art Gallery
• Shared Characters
• Meta: The Scheme

Layer 3

• The Scheme - meta from the previous layer
• Error: File “txtadv.py” not found
• Flooded Caves
• Folded Cards
• Sea Bass
• The Devil's in the Details
• We Made a Quiz Bowl Packet but Somewhere Things Went Horribly Wrong
• Meta: Lost at Sea

Layer 4

These puzzles are intentionally left blank. Click to revealTheir answers correspond to the green triangles found in the Collage graph.

• Lost at Sea - meta from the previous layer
• Bedtime Stories
• Castle Grounds
• Easy as Pie
• Fire Starter
• Follow Me
• Robber Baron
• Meta: Collage

Metameta

• Period of Wyrm

Round Elements

 

• Recursion - For using puzzles from museum, and round structure itself.