Mystery Hunt 2012 Recast: COMPLETE!!!

[jadesmar]

[L'lanmal]

Of puzzles in the William S. Bergman round (which had two unlock groups), the least solved was Good Neighbors (2 teams), followed by 25th Annual Putnam County Debate Tournament (4 teams) and How Hard Could It Be? (4 teams). The most solved was In Vivo (22 teams). 20 teams completed the task for Coming to a Location Near You.

[LordKinbote]

[Suspence]

[Scurra]

Whilst I managed to be away over this weekend and thus missed the big finish, I'd like to say how much I enjoyed the chance to visit puzzles I simply didn't see in the original hunt, and to see how people tackled some I did do.

And on that subject, I'd like to put in a counter-offer to people - I'm currently hunting with Team Unseen, which is something more of a midtable team than the big hitters (like Codex, Manic Sages, SETEC or Palindrome) who are seriously contending for victory, even though I appreciate that Codex are far less likely to be trying that hard for a while... I started out hunting with Codex (that's how I ended up here in the first place) and then managed to leave the year before they won - and thus missed what may have been my one chance to write MIT puzzles!

The tradeoff is that, being a much smaller team, there is a decent chance that you get to actually work on a puzzle you enjoy without someone swooping in and solving it from underneath, sometimes without you even being aware of it happening. On the other hand, this means that we take longer in "unlocking" puzzles, although if the new pattern of keeping the hunt open until essentially the closing ceremony regardless of when it is technically solved is going to continue to be the norm, that makes that feel much less of an issue.

So if you'd like to do the Hunt with a team who definitely aren't going to win (not that I don't think we wouldn't like to, but the probability is low!), then that's an alternative... I know that there are several other Team Unseen people on the GL.
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[Suspence]

I'm open to joining any team that will have me. I've PMed LK already, but if he doesn't think Codex is right for me, I'm happy to join Team Unseen.

Unfortunately, my ability to make final leaps is not all that great, and I can neither do advanced math nor program. I'm very happy to do grunt work, however, and I'm pretty persistent.
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[LordKinbote]

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I offered to join Codex first, so I'll stick with that if you will have me LK. I was at least halfway helpful on CISRA, I hope.
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[kaihuang]

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Given that I'm in Mass, I wonder if I could be on-site (at least for some of that weekend). Do they let anybody show up? How does that work?
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[Scurra]

As I understand it, they have to smuggle you in under cover of darkness, preferably in separate packages that can be reassembled on site.
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[LordKinbote]

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Where and what time is that?
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[LordKinbote]

[Suspence]

Thanks, I should add that I'll probably chicken out. I'm fairly phobic of social interaction, and the thought of meeting lots of new people is already making my skin crawl.
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[LordKinbote]

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Anyone want to take a shot at 2011's puzzles while we wait?

EDIT: New thread for this is up.
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