I was on the writing team and involved in the final runaround until ~5 am on Sunday - so I wasn't directly involved in the Sunday afternoon batch and can't speak to that. I will say there definitely wasn't "saving" wordsearches for certain teams. The runaround was designed to have no set order, but to be flexible. So a team starting after you may still have gotten to the wordsearch room before you, and this would have been true whether you were in the Saturday batch or the Sunday batch.
Anyway, we faced internal debate on how many to print - it's actually fairly expensive to print on large format paper. I want to say each word search cost over $100? We'd have to run out eventually.
> I don't think that last part is true at all. If you decide to stay open until a fixed time to let people finish the Hunt, you're committing to, well, letting people finish the Hunt.
You got to see every puzzle and every character interaction except for one puzzle (and one puzzle that, as of Saturday morning, we weren't sure would be included or not). I would say that counts as "finishing the hunt".
EDIT: I'm sorry hunt ended on a bad note for you. I really am.
RE: Re: runaround
Anyway, we faced internal debate on how many to print - it's actually fairly expensive to print on large format paper. I want to say each word search cost over $100? We'd have to run out eventually.
> I don't think that last part is true at all. If you decide to stay open until a fixed time to let people finish the Hunt, you're committing to, well, letting people finish the Hunt.
You got to see every puzzle and every character interaction except for one puzzle (and one puzzle that, as of Saturday morning, we weren't sure would be included or not). I would say that counts as "finishing the hunt".
EDIT: I'm sorry hunt ended on a bad note for you. I really am.