REVOMAZE User Group

Does anyone in here regularly do puzzle hunts? I just did my second puzzle hunt this past weekend at MIT. It was a doozy, but all the puzzles are open for the public to see now at

http://www.enigmavalley.com/

for the first round puzzles, and once you've solved them, you get access to the rest of the puzzles at

http://www.coinheist.com/

for the rest of the puzzles (Click on a character to get to a list of puzzles which go together to make a metapuzzle). For the most part, the puzzles can be done by anyone, although they sometimes require specific MIT lore/knowledge.

Every puzzle's answer is a word or phrase, and you are allowed to google all you want. I recommend solving in teams for maximum fun.

Anyone here can join my team remotely next year =]

I have done a puzzle hunt before, but honestly prefer mechanical puzzles, as I am often the slow one on the team and not that great at trivia.

maztec wrote:I have done a puzzle hunt before, but honestly prefer mechanical puzzles, as I am often the slow one on the team and not that great at trivia.

I agree usually. My favorite pen and paper puzzles are the ones that use math, so you don't need some obscure knowledge, but these puzzles allow you to use google so it becomes a combination of online scavenger hunt and a matter of coming up with creative ideas of what to try, sort of like cracking cryptography. And being in a group of people solving these is quite satisfying.

There is nothing to beat a good physical puzzle though =]

By the way, check this out, it's my favorite, although I still can't figure out the solution. It's a 4 dimensional maze, using the arrows to move in two dimensions and the asdw keys to move in the other two dimensions.

http://www.coinheist.com/rubik/the_maze/index.html

That's pretty neat and just consumed too much of my time. Still good though.