MIT Mystery Hunt 2025 - by Danielle - today things
I spent my weekend at the MIT Mystery Hunt making complicated spreadsheets for fun. (And tasting mystery liquids to try to identify their ingredients!) But good morning, time to get back to work today where I spend hours making different complicated spreadsheets instead!
I’ve been doing the Hunt every year since 2012 (when I was with Codex and helped write and illustrate the Producers-themed 2012 Hunt). Nowadays I solve with Small Llama Malls (which started as a small Codex offshoot), lauded at wrap-up this year as the team with the most number of team name changes (207).
…in that banging your head against a wall way, sometimes. But god that moment when things just click into place, there is no purer rush in this life
Just F---ing Behave! - poem about naughty children that uses animals that are also verbs to clue connect-the-dots patterns that draw out letters
Kindred Spirits - cocktail ingredient transformations, which led to us being handed a set of mystery liquids to sniff and taste and try to identify what was in them (a nice nostalgic nod back to prior years, where we’ve tried to identify spice blend ingredients and mysterious white powders by taste)
