It's a huge bag of cryptograms, riddles, logic puzzles, geography puzzles, crosswords, that sort of thing. Of course, the puzzles are all written by whoever won last year, so it varies from year to year.
The Mystery Hunts often take a good chunk of the weekend -- there's a reason it starts on a Friday! -Jon On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 01:22:47PM -0500, Jerrad Pierce wrote: > Okay, again (please reply to me & the list) if you are interested > in participating in the MIT Mystery Hunt this weekend. We don;t really > know what it is other than that it involves solving puzzles, to find > out as little as we know see: http://mit.edu/puzzle/ > > NOTE: You can also telecommute to help, but lumps of meat in the immediate > vicinity would be more helpful. > > The hunt starts this Friday @ 12 noon in Lobby 7 (77 Mass ave., > the big fron entrance to MIT). If you can't make it then do to > work (lucky dog!) come when you can. After 12 we will be set up in either: > > > http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?locate=none&locate=bldg_6 > direcions, enter 77 Mass ave. head down the long corridor to the end. > immediately before exiting the building turn right, a short ways down > there will be a lobby with a big bubble machine on your left. > > or: > > http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?locate=isp > The ISP classroom, it is on the left hand side of building 16 as you > head east, right before the large lobby/ building 56. > > -- > H4sICNoBwDoAA3NpZwA9jbsNwDAIRHumuC4NklvXTOD0KSJEnwU8fHz4Q8M9i3sGzkS7BBrm > OkCTwsycb4S3DloZuMIYeXpLFqw5LaMhXC2ymhreVXNWMw9YGuAYdfmAbwomoPSyFJuFn2x8 > Opr8bBBidccAAAA= > -- > MOTD on Boomtime, the 17th of Chaos, in the YOLD 3168: > "A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he's crossing a one-way street."
