Deanna's 2019 MIT Mystery Hunt Saga

You know, I never actually wrote up my Mystery Hunt post last year (I just gave myself a long list of notes and failed to turn it into text) and then after hunt this year I met someone who helped run the 2016 hunt who asked which things I liked and I completely couldn't remember and was glad I had an entry about it, so.

Spoiler Warning: I talk about actual things that happened solving puzzles here so if you see me mention a puzzle name you want to work on sometime, skip the next paragraph, because I will likely spoil you on it. This is your overall entry spoiler warning.

Also as a note: I'd usually include more photos, but their solutions pages are relatively good about having them when relevant for puzzles, so I'm only going to include a few of things I don't think are included there.

( Or I could just cut this I suppose. )

It's taken me 2 weeks since hunt to write this, which both feels REALLY long and simultaneously not actually that long since it's kind of a monster entry. But I think in the future I'm going to be happy to have this record of all the crazy stuff that happened?

I can't imagine anyone actually read all of this, but if you did, I hope at least some of it was enjoyable.