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WRAP-UP

Closing ceremony!

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Solutions are up on the hunt website

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Fun puzzlehunt stats:

  • 297 Teams participated
    • 28 CMU teams
  • 256 Teams solved 1+ puzzles
  • 180 Teams solved 1+ metas
  • 70 Teams finished the hunt

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Prepuzzle!

Magic Hunt!

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What Happened? (Meta spoilers)

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You wake up in the Celestial Magic Universe with no memory of how you got there. As you tour the cloud kingdom, you see BLUES CLUES, and you realize that everyone is quite sad.

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What Happened? (Meta spoilers)

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You determine that the magicians are sad because they have NO LAUGHING ANTIMATTER. You work on synthesizing it.

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What Happened?

(Meta spoilers)

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To make the laughing antimatter, you build a TICKLE ACCELERATOR.

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You can now go home.

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What Happened?

(Meta spoilers)

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Simply MOONWALK FROM THE SKY!

Our favorite sculpture.

Cindy also made an origin story for how you got to the sky:

struggle bus 😔

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Funny stuff

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Happy end of daylight savings!

The times, they are indeed a-changin’!

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More fun statistics:

  • The first puzzle solve of the hunt was Projectyl: The It-Is-ening at 1:21 PM!
  • Most hint requests: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice with 72
  • Fewest hint requests: The Times They Are a-Changin’ and Returning home with 0
  • Most correct submissions: The Magic Book with 247
    • In second, Traveller's Guide with 231
  • Most incorrect submissions: Ella Musk’s Field Trip with 1,745
    • In second, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice with 1,125

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Fastest Finishing Teams

Rank

Team

Finish Time

1

𓎐 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH JUST CUPS NO BALLS

4:18 PM

2

🆓 yannick

4:19 PM

3

huntinality.com starts 12/1 (An advertisement? In OUR team name? It's more likely than you think)

4:32 PM

4

NES

5:19 PM

5

try our friend's game, Galactic Diner, on Steam

5:35 PM

6

The C@r@line Syzygy

5:46 PM

7

Top-hat Suspicious: Bunny Inside

6:36 PM

8

DAVID ZENG 251 TA BASTION MAIN 🎉NOT A NEET🎉 🚎RB.GY/6QV6Q🚎 🐟RB.GY/55Q9P🐟 42POTATOES CRUCIFIXPANDA ERASMUS ERAMOOSE TIMEBUFFALO EPOCHBISON YEARDEER 🕓🐂⏳🐃🕰️🦬 TSUKIHI ARARAGI #1 FAN + friends

7:06 PM

9

yoyo lobster taco 🪀🦞🌮

7:18 PM

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Please Clap

7:30 PM

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Prize Winners (we have 25 prizes! - some haven’t arrived)

Rank

Team

# Students

Finish Time

# Puzzles Solved

35

ghostbloods

3

1:27 AM EDT

18

38

balloon defense

6

1:35 AM EDT

21

48

It's LeviOsa not LeviosA

5

4:57 AM EST

18

50

We Tried ;-;

4

5:39 AM

18

74

shrimps

4

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16

78

Dobedobe

6

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Prizes sponsored by

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CMU Puzzlehunt Staff

Cindy Gao

Elina Lee

Jace Yagoda

Johnathan Subramanian

Kasper Menezes

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And also thanks to our playtesters <3:

Alex, Ariel, Kaz, Liam, Olga, Robert

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Summit Wei (president)

Ryan Judge (playtesting czar)

Farid Khuri-Makdisi (treasurer)

Kiera O’Flynn (chief hunter)

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HUGE thanks to Dillon for managing the hunt website (and saving it when it died for a second)!

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Please join our staff!

  • We hold weekly meetings (pizza sometimes!) and write a puzzlehunt every semester, as well as an orientation week puzzlehunt.
  • We also solve other puzzlehunts.
  • Help us write puzzlehunts in the future!
  • We have a Discord for prospective staff members (or check us out on Tartan Connect).
    • We'll give you a link to the Discord if you show interest on the exit survey!

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Exit Survey (please fill it out!)

tinyurl.com/CMUF23exit

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