Turing Tar-pit (MIT Mystery Hunt 2024)
| Turing Tar-pit | |
|---|---|
| MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 | |
| Yellowstone, WY | |
| Author(s) | Jayden Yamada |
| Answer | Click to revealFACEOFF |
| Statistics | |
| No. solves | 48 |
| No. total guesses | 97 |
| Links | |
| Puzzle | Link |
| Solution | Link |
| Stats | Link |
Turing Tar-pit is one of puzzles with videos in MIT Mystery Hunt 2024.
Puzzle Elements[edit | edit source]
TO DO
Video - 2 of 4 subpuzzles used Video.
Hint In Flavortext - 54th Turing Tar-pit and 1982 reads to 54th paragraph of Alan Perlin's Epigrams on Programming.
Hint In Title - Said 54th paragraph was also referenced in wiki about esoteric programming language, under article named "Turing tarpit".
Red Herring - However, each languages used in this puzzle aren't categorized as turing tarpits.
- Chef - "Chocolate & Hot English Fudge" part provides video while title was acronym of language name.
You need to rewrite Method part from video before running actual program. - Piet - "Projections" part provides image while example was acronym of language name.
You need to adjust graph size and crop before running actual program. - Shakespeare - "A Message From Special Product Leaders" part provides video while transcript available.
Language has sensitive parts. - Rockstar - "Next Advertising Campaign: Rock Song" part provides audio while lyrics provided in transcripts.
Language has sensitive parts.
