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Dec. 9th, 2010 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretThe announcements about this January's MIT Mystery Hunt have gone up in the past week or so, and it's been heartbreaking for me to read them. I've been Hunting since the '06 SPIES hunt and I haven't missed a Mystery Hunt since then. A version of the team that ran the '06 Hunt won last year and will be running the Hunt this year and early indications are that it should bear many of the hallmarks of that beautiful Hunt.
One of my college roommates is getting married that weekend, though, and much as I wish I could do both, I'll be going to the wedding.
If you haven't Hunted, it's an incredible experience. You spend a weekend hyped up on adrenaline, caffeine, and sugar fighting your way through the most beautiful, elegant, perplexing, varied, and torturous puzzles you've ever seen. Crosswords on crack. Sudoku on smack. Jigsaws on jet fuel (um.... I went through a list of drug names that begin with J and that seemed to work). And you spend it with awesome people who are just as dedicated, just as crazy, and just as creative. I've been to 5 Hunts and I've never had a bad experience.
I know people on a number of teams. If you might be interested, I can connect you with someone who can get you into the loop much better than I can this year. Working remotely is definitely feasible, too- if you can't make it to Cambridge on Martin Luther King Weekend, that doesn't mean you can't have a satisfying Mystery Hunt experience.
One of my college roommates is getting married that weekend, though, and much as I wish I could do both, I'll be going to the wedding.
If you haven't Hunted, it's an incredible experience. You spend a weekend hyped up on adrenaline, caffeine, and sugar fighting your way through the most beautiful, elegant, perplexing, varied, and torturous puzzles you've ever seen. Crosswords on crack. Sudoku on smack. Jigsaws on jet fuel (um.... I went through a list of drug names that begin with J and that seemed to work). And you spend it with awesome people who are just as dedicated, just as crazy, and just as creative. I've been to 5 Hunts and I've never had a bad experience.
I know people on a number of teams. If you might be interested, I can connect you with someone who can get you into the loop much better than I can this year. Working remotely is definitely feasible, too- if you can't make it to Cambridge on Martin Luther King Weekend, that doesn't mean you can't have a satisfying Mystery Hunt experience.