Puzzle Hunt 9

November 5-6, 2005

Puzzle Hunt was fun. Our team ruled. This page assembled in approximately 15 minutes total... just dumped the pictures off my camera, resized, and uploaded... I need to sleep. Maybe I'll do more with this later.

Pictures

• Meta Puzzle 1 using our origami skills to find Mace in the folds of the newspaper.
• Scrabble puzzle solved; does this look like a "38" to you?
• Our team at 5am
• Brian solving the Camera Store puzzle
• Close-up of the Camera Store
• Taping the World Together for one of the meta-puzzles.
• The World, sitting out on the table
• Our team at 11am
• Drew, being super-scary
• The Radiation Trail puzzle in mid-solution, after we'd gotten "alpha = odds, beta = primes, gamma = div by 3"
• People sitting around being entranced by the Prime Number Shitting Bear
• Radiation Problem Solved - "Labyrinth Studio"
• Radiation Problem with all five papers
• Assembling the World without out knowing the third key word
• He's Got The Whole World In His Hands
• The World Is Round Like a D20

Quotes from the Whiteboard

"What do you need for driving? Seven letters?"
"Alcohol!"
-- Lahut

"Congratulations. You found four fucking stars."
-- Ian, who spent way too long staring at constellations

"Jupiter is always between the legs of Virgo."
"That must hurt."
-- (I forget who)

"Afar!"
-- Mike J, imitating a Texan yelling "A fire!"

"Sure I can solve them once I know the answer..."
--Deanna, on cryptics

"And the page is from Denmark... which is where *I* personally go for my tea, of course."
-- Jason

[after realizing that Dacca is Accad backwards]
"Great. They'll just rub it in counter-clockwise."
-- Jason

"Oh, is this a meta?"
"Yeah, why do you think it's such a bitch?"
-- exchange between Drew and Lahut at like 5am

"All I see in the answer to that puzzle is 'I suck.'"
-- Brian N

[on the prime number shitting bear]
"It wiggles. That's a nice touch."
-- Ryan

"If it comes out of the bear's ass, it's good enough for me."
-- Brad