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Re: Puzzle Hunt topic
« Reply #45 on: May 05, 2014, 11:25:11 AM »
New MUMS puzzle hunt will be from May 5th to May 9th: http://puzzlehunt.mums.org.au/

Is now underway! If the forum seems quiet for the next little while, this is why ;)

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« Reply #46 on: May 13, 2014, 10:13:41 AM »
sosolved mucheverything veryincludingthemeta. wow

Thanks to Sekti and Javra for joining in and munching some of the hardest puzzles. :thumbsup:

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Re: Puzzle Hunt topic
« Reply #47 on: May 13, 2014, 11:22:32 PM »
There's a pretty entertaining article about the puzzle hunt organization here: http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~mums/puzzlehunt/2014/Behind_the_Puzzles.pdf

Interesting to read about the original version of the doge puzzle...

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« Reply #48 on: May 14, 2014, 02:07:38 AM »
The first puzzle hunt in 2004 was co­ordinated by (the now infamous) Julian Assange  of Wikileaks who was vice­president of MUMS at the time.

 :o Small world!

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Re: Puzzle Hunt topic
« Reply #49 on: October 22, 2014, 07:08:34 AM »
ΣUMS Puzzle Hunt starts Monday 27th.

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Re: Puzzle Hunt topic
« Reply #51 on: April 08, 2015, 08:08:29 AM »
MUMS 2015 starts May 4th.

Hunt puzzles, you will...

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« Reply #52 on: May 03, 2015, 11:03:21 AM »
*SNOP* puzzle time!

...in 15 hours.

Has anybody registered our team yet? You can probably find out here: thesuicidalrodents.proboards.com

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Re: Puzzle Hunt topic
« Reply #53 on: May 03, 2015, 02:41:40 PM »
Could anyone tell me what this is? I see lots of posts and links I don't understand.

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« Reply #54 on: May 03, 2015, 06:50:49 PM »
*SNOP* puzzle time!

...in 15 hours.

I'll probably be asleep...

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Re: Puzzle Hunt topic
« Reply #55 on: May 04, 2015, 02:09:00 AM »
Could anyone tell me what this is? I see lots of posts and links I don't understand.

It's a competition, LF enters a team every year. The puzzles come in sets of four or so, one set released each day for a week. The object is to find the answer to the puzzle (in the form of a word or short phrase, IIRC), and submit the answers before the day is over.

The puzzles are quite cryptic -- they typically don't give any obvious indication as to how to attain an answer from it. Last year, one of the puzzles was just a piece of sheet music -- guessing how the answer is encoded in the sheet music is part of the challenge.

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Re: Puzzle Hunt topic
« Reply #56 on: May 07, 2015, 09:16:35 PM »
Could anyone tell me what this is? I see lots of posts and links I don't understand.

The puzzles are quite cryptic

that is a serious understatement. I would say the puzzles are of at least "savagely hard" difficulty. :P
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Re: Puzzle Hunt topic
« Reply #57 on: October 29, 2015, 05:02:47 AM »
ΣUMS Puzzle Hunt starts in like 4 days, there was some weird short notice from the "confirmation" e-mail to the start of the contest.
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Re: Puzzle Hunt topic
« Reply #58 on: October 30, 2015, 08:20:00 AM »
I see starfields and planets... not another Star Wars hunt I hope! :lix-gasp:

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Re: Puzzle Hunt topic
« Reply #59 on: October 31, 2015, 09:57:18 PM »
Has anyone signed us up already?
I've notified my non Lemmings forums friends.

Not sure if I'll have a lot of time or motivation to put in a lot of effort this time though.