Could you spend more than 20 hours working on a single
puzzle? Even if it's a sudoku?
Every
puzzle's worthwhile
Sudokus
engender absolute dejection
Nos.?
I don't think so, son
I could
spend days making choices about digits
How often do your dreams feature MIT runarounds?
Everyone
relishes runaround fantasies
Every so
often; they're annoying, I believe
Not any day or
night
Always bad
dreams, i.e. nightmares
Eleven PM Friday night, what's your team doing?
Watching MTV
Constructing
cryptoquotes
We want beer,
bad!
Working on a
way to make our frontal lobes grow
Cryptic clue or answer in Morse code?
Cryptics eat
it; Morse rules!
Dash; dot; dash
– it is oh so sad
Radio
transmissions aggravate; anagrams elevate
Cryptics vs. Morse
code has the potential to create an amazing argument
Know any good reference books?
OED bucks like
a rodeo!
I don't look at
books; I opt for tabula rasa
Thesauri benefit
literate contenders
Almanacs,
atlases....I love them!
Are you able to keep a poker face when a solving team is
nearing a correct answer?
Totally
impassive
I laugh or sob
unrestrainedly
Emotions kept
under control, I lie easily and nobody else can lie to me
Simply
ROFLMAO
Remember your favorite hunt? Which one was it?
Dragnet as a
theme rocked the school hard
1996's hunt, viz. mad ninja Calvinists
Mighty Morphing
Power Rangers
Absolute
favorite: Albino lesbian minotaurs
Coins are for kids – and sometimes silly rabbits! What do
YOU think?
Animal
completely eclipses neonates
IMHO, coins ain't
for lagomorphs
Stick it to the
kids; I love rabbits!
Given the choice
betwixt beauty and the beasts, I'd avoid the beasts
Have you ever considered slipping the coin in your pocket
right before the winning team finds it?
Proclaiming
innocence: Negative!
Last January I
almost did palm it
No, I'd never
thought of it, but maybe I should start a new tradition
A coin (four
oz.) proves simple to withdraw
If you could only compose one type of puzzle from now until
the day you die, what type would it be?
Anything but
kakuro
Perplexing,
devious slitherlink variants
Hands-on puzzles
with some assembly required
Scavenger hunts
with intentional snafus that make teams scream like
maniacs
Very angry teams have been calling HQ for the past hour
complaining about a particular metapuzzle. What is your response?
Probably
Tylenol, certainly Ativan
Mock them
wrathfully
Pugnaciously
say, "Hush!" and hang up
Make them
RTFM
Every team needs a spirit animal. What would your team's
animal be?
A dormouse,
probably in a pagoda
Some type of
wild thing, e.g. a feral sphinx
Australian
kangaroo
Here ya go: Fish
is my choice
Some people say there are more important things in life than
the Mystery Hunt. What do you think?
Ignorant idiots!
Moderation in
all things is truly wisdom
I plan to be
hunting until the end of days
A hunt is just
mystery QED