Sunday, 14 January 2024

Walker

Here’s a walkthrough for Freddie’s Water Walk, explained by bakpao: https://youtu.be/7JkEyeHXFvE

One of the world’s largest puzzle hunts, the MIT Mystery Hunt, is running this weekend! 📝 🏛️ The hunt, run yearly since 1981, brings thousands of participants to campus, with many teams between 30 and 80 solvers. The hunt culminates in a final runaround to find a "coin" 🪙 , and the first team to finish wins the responsibility of writing next year’s hunt. If you’re curious, I’d recommend checking the archive of past hunts; there are puzzles about all sorts of things (including some Sudoku / grid logic puzzles), so there’s sure to be something you’re interested in!

Speaking of, I found this oddly-shaped Haisu puzzle tucked behind a poster on campus. How strange… (For hunt solvers, the usual "not a puzzle" disclaimer: this puzzle is not associated with any of the puzzles in this year’s Mystery Hunt.)

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting path through the centers of all unshaded cells, starting from the S (start) and finishing at the G (goal). Each clued cell must be traveled through on the path’s Nth visit to the region the clue lies within, where N is the value of the clue. The colors are just for theming, and have no relevance to the solve.

Try the first GAPP Haisu, by Eric Fox: Discord message

Example (Penpa): http://tinyurl.com/ywn9m7yj

Solve in 3:00 or under for a Speedy Sloth! 🦥
Complete in 6:00 or under for a Quick Crab! 🦀
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will earn a Mystery Hunter's Sunbird! 🐦

Puzzle (Penpa, no color): http://tinyurl.com/ynq2xn7x
Puzzle (Penpa, color): http://tinyurl.com/yqqgf6h7