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May. 26th, 2022 11:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretIf you liked my Hunt teammate Justin's ridiculously over-detailed discussion of the amazing work he did as art director of the 2022 MIT Mystery Hunt, you may enjoy his awesome new podcast, the Extraction.
https://theextraction.justinladia.com/
He's trying to dig deep into the details of Hunt style puzzles and how they're created and what makes them interesting and fun, by interviewing puzzle creators and doing a close examination of one particular puzzle per episode. I think they're really good, and I would guess that they are accessible even to people who don't know puzzles that well. Puzzling is such a weird interdisciplinary art and the first two episodes do an amazing job of providing context to the way puzzles force all these different skills to come together, both in the creation and in the solving. The first episode, with the co-creator of a high production value puzzle hunt, has a lot of great discussion about how project management and logistics intersect with art and design. The second, interviewing a Singaporean puzzle designer, talks a lot about the weird intricacies of language and how puzzles can reveal them.
https://theextraction.justinladia.com/
He's trying to dig deep into the details of Hunt style puzzles and how they're created and what makes them interesting and fun, by interviewing puzzle creators and doing a close examination of one particular puzzle per episode. I think they're really good, and I would guess that they are accessible even to people who don't know puzzles that well. Puzzling is such a weird interdisciplinary art and the first two episodes do an amazing job of providing context to the way puzzles force all these different skills to come together, both in the creation and in the solving. The first episode, with the co-creator of a high production value puzzle hunt, has a lot of great discussion about how project management and logistics intersect with art and design. The second, interviewing a Singaporean puzzle designer, talks a lot about the weird intricacies of language and how puzzles can reveal them.