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12 September: Different Area, Same Hunt
All-day game of puzzles, puzzles, walking, and a little navigation. And puzzles.
Grab a few chums, pick "Standard" level, and see you in London. £65 for a team of 3-5 lovelies.
Or play you virtually - DASH runs in two dozen cities on most continents.
Just one week left! #PuzzlerPride2025 launches in 7 days!
We won! — Last Saturday I participated in a German-language #puzzlehunt named #Rätselnacht as part of the team Cheatahs. It was a lot of fun and I met a couple really nice people on that team. This is the second time I participated in Rätselnacht and I liked it a lot more than last time — mostly because of the airplane part last year (I hear others have complained about it too), but also because this year ended with a number of easy puzzles so we were able to sprint rather than limp to the finishing line. Looking forward to next year’s already! https://raetselnacht.de/rn5
Second day of the Glyph #PuzzleHunt about to start!
We love Glyph - it always has good puzzles and the hint system for when you are stuck generally works well.
We're down to 4 people puzzling today so the second place we've managed on a couple of previous occasions is likely out of reach, but it'll be fun to see how we do - maybe we can win the medium size team category!
Many #puzzlehunt constructors fall into the trap of making-a-puzzle-about-my-favorite-thing. What if I did the opposite: made a puzzle about something I hate?
Anyhoo, those are all the stats we have for now -- stay tuned as we'll have a few more announcements this week!
Based on my chats and giving out DIY kits, my money is it's 60-40 in favour of save, you soft lot.
Number of clippys killed or saved: NOT YET DETERMINED
Our arcade finale was a bit too last-minute to get the proper analytics treatment, so we're going to gain insights in the same way we did for our first ever @emf puzzlehunt "Dreamcatcher" back in 2018:
This weekend I'm going to go to our storage container and count how many stickers are not there.
@paintcat stats from our MS paint puzzle:
🎨 Number of images tooted: 21
🚫 Number of images rejected by moderation for being rude: 0, well done everyone! (Yes, we built a moderation system in case one of you did something puerile)
⬜ Number of images rejected by moderation for having 1 or fewer pixels of interest: 3
💤 Hours of downtime MS Paint puzzle needed before the giant school smartboard decided to randomly start working again: 26
🕹️ Escape room players: 236
📖 Escape room bookings: 68
🏃 Fastest escape room completion: 17m 52s, team Pingue
Now the dust is settling on #emfcamp #emfcamp2024 it's time to reflect on the thing we all hold most dear to our hearts: raw, unfiltered, and likely untrustworthy statistics! 🧵
🧩 Total puzzle solves: 937
💣 Most solved puzzle: Minesweeper, with 152 solves
🕊️ Early bird award:
Team "yomimono", with Solitaire at 2024-05-31 05:40:46
🐟 Fastest first-to-last solve: 04:20:57 ("fish face")
More in 🧵...
We still have some build-your-own-Clippy-crime-scene kits left! If you would like one please email an address (and whether you want a save or kill shiny sticker) to team@dreamcat.uk and we'll do our best to post you one :)
(Or Sneakernet if you happen to be within Sneak distance!)
#emfcamp2024 #puzzlehunt
Cerebral Puzzle Showcase: New Game Launch! 🏆
In @simogo's Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, you'll explore an old baroque manor solving #puzzlehunt style challenges in search of the truth. Be prepared to fall down the rabbit hole 🕳️🗝️
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2008920/Lorelei_and_the_Laser_Eyes/
A neat corner of the internet I hadn't come across before – the #PuzzleHunt space. Sounds like teams work to solve a bunch of puzzles in a short time using online/offline resources.
One emerged three years ago at Stanford called #Huntinality. Their third puzzle gets started in ten days.
Seems too intensive for my tastes – a pub quiz is about as much as I ever hazard – but I like that this exists!
See the link if you're interested. Reading the about & faq is fun too.
It’s #StarTrekDay! Y’all wanna solve some puzzles and help save my starship? https://snout.org/curtis50trek/ #puzzleHunt #aThinVeneerOfStory
Hello internet! Over the past year I've been working on a web-based puzzle game as a sort of side project.
Feel free to try it out here: https://normalexisting.neocities.org/lambdaetaphi/
(Images are taken from the website.)
#puzzle #html #css #puzzlegame #puzzlehunt #furry #protogen #puzzle
The Cryptex Hunt starts today, and the theme is puzzles hidden in videos! If you like puzzles but not super competitive puzzle hunts, it's a good one to try because it's low-key and welcoming and eventually hints are released. I didn't make a puzzle this year, but I helped playtest it and there are some really creative and fun ones.
Do you enjoy the combination of logical and out-of-the-box thinking? Come join the #puzzlehunt "enigame 8-enimal kindom", organized by our Department of Mathematics, on April 28-29. 🧩 Put the puzzles together and get to the top with your team: http://go.tum.de/868934
📷 TUM Department of Mathematics
