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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:

  • 284 Teams participated
    • 21 CMU teams
  • 227 Teams solved 1+ puzzles
  • 154 Teams solved 1+ metas
  • 35 Teams finished the hunt

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Prepuzzle!

Arbitrary blue and yellow department store Hunt!

Braille in order of box size from smallest to largest

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What Happened? (Meta spoilers)

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You and your teammates visited the arbitrary blue and yellow department store for a quick meal at the food court. The food court served HOT COUCH POTATOES.

But it turned out the department store was possessed! The robot Karkar asked for your help:

- To reprogram the glitched cleaning robots, you QUASHed WEIRD PUDDLES

- To manufacture a better furniture arsenal by STALKing HOME DEPOT

- To SWEDISH OUT PUNISHMENT and save the department store!

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Funny stuff

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Under the Sea

We got dozens of those lol

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Oops I dropped my Taskmaster-themed puzzle in the DIY round

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By Onefin of Tchotchke Sellers: Best Inventory

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More fun statistics:

  • The first puzzle solve of the hunt was by Things & Stuff & Bric-a-brac & Items! (Swedish Chef) at 1:21 PM!
  • Most hint requests: asdfghjkl; with 88
  • Fewest hint requests: The Fish’s Guide with 2
  • Most correct submissions: The Swedish Chef with 218
  • Most incorrect submissions: Under the Sea with 1,120
    • In second, Oops I dropped my Taskmaster-themed puzzle in the DIY round with 1,036
  • What comes next? had 0 correct submissions and 502 incorrect submissions!
    • As intended :)

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Fastest Finishing Teams

Rank

Team

Finish Time

1

🜽 CASHIER'S CONVEYOR BELT

6:20 PM

2

we are zoomers (real (trust me bro)) - wayne gretzky - michael scott

6:59 PM

3

it the funny number today

7:40 PM

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🔥🔥🔥Galactic Stockblazers🔥🔥🔥

7:43 PM

5

The C%r%line Schism

8:54 PM

6

Mathemagicians Maneuvering Minivans

9:48 PM

7

Avez-vous essayé de « blaze it » ? #80

10:11 PM

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Tchotchke Sellers: Best Inventory

11:10 PM

9

Needlessly Extravagant Splurge

11:25 PM

10

Temp Team Name

11:35 PM

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

Rank

Team

# Students

Finish Time

# Puzzles Solved

19

ghostbloods

2

3:42 AM EDT

28

35

We Tried ;-;

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1:02 PM EDT

25

52

honkerino poggerino

5

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22

63

Inbred Kiwis

6

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21

80

000

3

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19

87

Shinzo wo Sasageyo

6

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19

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112

Madmahogany

1

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Prizes sponsored by

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CMU Puzzlehunt Staff

Cindy Gao

Elina Lee

Abe James

Tali Kirschenbaum

Johnathan Subramanian

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And also thanks to our playtesters <3:

Kell, Cameron, Kaz, Liam, Jace, Robert

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Elara Wei (president)

Ryan Judge (playtesting czar)

Farid Khuri-Makdisi (treasurer)

Kiera O’Flynn (chief hunter)

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Many thanks to Dillon for managing the hunt website as always :)

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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/CMUS24exit

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