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a little more on hunt, some other stuff I guess...
Long periods of time go by and I don't update this. It bothers me not to have the updates, but I don't feel like writing a lot.
So yeah, there was Mystery Hunt. I went to Boston for the weekend and played with team Up Late, who had merged with the group that usually does a remote team in Redmond (but basically Mike and Matt and Robb and I were the only ones from the MSPH community to go to Boston). We had about 30 people there in Boston, maybe? Everyone was amazingly nice and smart and cool and funny and I really had a great time puzzling with them. And they had a great puzzler-friendly dog too (she seemed to sense when you were stuck on a puzzle and would come over and puppy-nudge you). The puzzles were very high-quality IMO, at least the ones I did significant work on. The events that I went to were fun too, especially that I got to basically sit there and play Wheel of Fortune Ricochet Robot for half an hour at one point. It was also super-cool to meet a lot of people or see old friends -- bizarrely the team across the hall from us had a bunch of assorted puzzlers I know from elsewhere.
I'm glad I went, aside from the silly downsides like only sleeping 11 hours in 3 days, or getting mild frostbite from the freezing weather, or eating approximately 8239482394832 pounds of chocolate over the weekend. I should probably go back next year when gwillen's team hosts, because he came out to Liboncatipu's puzzle hunt this fall :)
(If you also played through it, I'll just say that my two favorite puzzles were "Written Down" and "Yo Dawg, I Herd You Like Puzzle Hunts")
Aside from Hunt, I did nothing in Boston. Matt and Mike and I got lunch/dinner from Legal Sea Foods by Kendall station that Sunday, and then caught the train/bus to the airport. I do have to admit that after I spent so long writing the Magical History Tour puzzle, it was funny to be going around on the T.
(I hope to add to this more after the 28th, if I remember to.)
So yeah, there was Mystery Hunt. I went to Boston for the weekend and played with team Up Late, who had merged with the group that usually does a remote team in Redmond (but basically Mike and Matt and Robb and I were the only ones from the MSPH community to go to Boston). We had about 30 people there in Boston, maybe? Everyone was amazingly nice and smart and cool and funny and I really had a great time puzzling with them. And they had a great puzzler-friendly dog too (she seemed to sense when you were stuck on a puzzle and would come over and puppy-nudge you). The puzzles were very high-quality IMO, at least the ones I did significant work on. The events that I went to were fun too, especially that I got to basically sit there and play Wheel of Fortune Ricochet Robot for half an hour at one point. It was also super-cool to meet a lot of people or see old friends -- bizarrely the team across the hall from us had a bunch of assorted puzzlers I know from elsewhere.
I'm glad I went, aside from the silly downsides like only sleeping 11 hours in 3 days, or getting mild frostbite from the freezing weather, or eating approximately 8239482394832 pounds of chocolate over the weekend. I should probably go back next year when gwillen's team hosts, because he came out to Liboncatipu's puzzle hunt this fall :)
(If you also played through it, I'll just say that my two favorite puzzles were "Written Down" and "Yo Dawg, I Herd You Like Puzzle Hunts")
Aside from Hunt, I did nothing in Boston. Matt and Mike and I got lunch/dinner from Legal Sea Foods by Kendall station that Sunday, and then caught the train/bus to the airport. I do have to admit that after I spent so long writing the Magical History Tour puzzle, it was funny to be going around on the T.
(I hope to add to this more after the 28th, if I remember to.)