Now it has an addendum there (maybe someone wrote in or found this after I called this out? since it wasn't there last week, I swear):
The 1988 hunt was canceled. In 2014, we received the following note: "I was part of the winning team in 1987 (originally a team of 2, merged into a team of 3, then merged again into about 8 with some really extraordinary solvers including I think Eric Albert). As part of the tradition that I learned upon winning, I was to set the 1988 hunt. I applied for the $25 funding from MIT for the reward, put a listing in the IAP guide. But then I was totally overwhelmed by the magnitude of the task, and also heard from someone else on the team that "someone else was doing it", and so I just canceled it. (I think I put up a single handwritten poster in Lobby 7.) I'm *very* glad that this didn't kill the whole thing. (I believe the ads for 1989 said something like "this one won't be canceled".) I was a grad student in Math (excuse me, Course XVIII) at the time."
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Now it has an addendum there (maybe someone wrote in or found this after I called this out? since it wasn't there last week, I swear):
The 1988 hunt was canceled. In 2014, we received the following note:
"I was part of the winning team in 1987 (originally a team of 2, merged into a team of 3, then merged again into about 8 with some really extraordinary solvers including I think Eric Albert). As part of the tradition that I learned upon winning, I was to set the 1988 hunt. I applied for the $25 funding from MIT for the reward, put a listing in the IAP guide. But then I was totally overwhelmed by the magnitude of the task, and also heard from someone else on the team that "someone else was doing it", and so I just canceled it. (I think I put up a single handwritten poster in Lobby 7.) I'm *very* glad that this didn't kill the whole thing. (I believe the ads for 1989 said something like "this one won't be canceled".) I was a grad student in Math (excuse me, Course XVIII) at the time."