December 2009
2 posts
MIT Mystery Hunt 2008, Spectral Analysis
This puzzle felt like more work than puzzle, and the work wasn’t work I was especially good at.  I still had fun and got to a solution after two and a half hours. By the way, I highly recommend the Shinteki pads for puzzle solving: http://3.ly/TAD Don’t head to a puzzle hunt without them! The puzzle is here: http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/08/spectral_analysis/ and you can read my...
Dec 30th
MIT Mystery Hunt 2008, Character Witness
I leave in 15 days for Boston! I’m getting excited. And I’m back full bore on this here puzzle blog until then. Here’s Character Witness: http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/08/character_witness/ I had some problems with this puzzle. You can try to solve it first or just read after the break for my minute-by-minute. I failed at this puzzle, and failed to follow the rules of this...
Dec 30th