{"id":232,"date":"2005-01-22T19:30:38","date_gmt":"2005-01-23T03:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/wp\/?p=232"},"modified":"2005-01-22T19:37:39","modified_gmt":"2005-01-23T03:37:39","slug":"mystery-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/mystery-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, I participated in the MIT Mystery Hunt, an annual puzzler extravaganza put on by the most famous of nerd schools. My participation came via <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/storborg\/www\/\">Scott<\/a>, a friend who currently attends said instution. My team-by-proxy was &#8220;death-from-above&#8221;, and though I directly helped solve only one puzzle out of more than 100, my &#8220;team&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/normalville.org\/stats.html\">solved 79<\/a>, placing solidly above some teams, but solidly below the top-tier teams this year.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at the one I helped with, called &#8220;Logomania&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/media\/image.jpg\" alt=\"Mystery Hunt Logomania\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To solve it, the Washington sub-team figured out the <a href=\"http:\/\/moretti.silverfir.net\/hunt\/logomania.txt\">name of the company associated<\/a> with each logo, then we took the first letter of each compnay and <a href=\"http:\/\/moretti.silverfir.net\/hunt\/mess.txt\">made a sentence<\/a> out of it, which pointed us to the &#8220;company of the sixth logo,&#8221; or N-Star, which was the answer to the puzzle.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds complicated? It was. And this was also, I assure you, one of the easiest puzzles in the game. Oh, and if you read <a href=\"http:\/\/moretti.silverfir.net\/\">Bobby<\/a>&#8216;s AIM profile, yes, &#8220;(03:33:48) Ryan McElroy: I&#8217;m a whore barbie ok&#8221; really is a quote from me, said at 3:33 am. It was an attempt to solve another puzzle, called &#8220;ten times a second.&#8221; My guess was way off base, in case you were wondering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, I participated in the MIT Mystery Hunt, an annual puzzler extravaganza put on by the most famous of nerd schools. My participation came via Scott, a friend who currently attends said instution. My team-by-proxy was &#8220;death-from-above&#8221;, and though I directly helped solve only one puzzle out of more than 100, my &#8220;team&#8221; solved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}