I have returned!

I have returned to LJ-land after a fun weekend of puzzle-solving. Please let me know if I missed anything you posted and want me to know, since I doubt I'm going through everyone's posts.

Hunt 2009: Spaceship

I'm going to start chronicling some of what went on at the Hunt. Rather than having a single absurdly long post, or else lose steam and never post it (like happened last year), I've decided to do it in installments. This one is about the spaceship competition, and a bit of team history.

( Spaceship Competition )

( Team History )

( More Spaceship )

Hunt 2009: Girly TMI

( Cut for girly stuff that's related to the Hunt )

Digg

Apparently a blog I follow, WallStats.com, was banned from Digg.com for selling things. I wonder what gives.

Need More Spaceship!

Now in Puke-O-Vision!

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Zyzzlcon 3009 kickoff!

These days, every MIT Mystery Hunt has a theme, and the kickoff at 12noon on the Friday of Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend always presents the story of the theme. This year, it was a futuristic Sci-Fi convention (Zyzzlcon 3009) with guests of honor the crew of the Brass Rat, that got sucked into the region of space called Zyzzlvaria. The only way to escape is to find all the missing crew members and the Covertly Operational Inversion Node (COIN - traditionally the Hunt ends when one team finds a coin or other representational object at the end of a scavenger hunt). Here's T$'s video of the kickoff.

And a direct link.