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Dominion Puzzle Hunt?
« on: August 09, 2012, 07:46:50 pm »
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzlehunt for the unaware

So, a year ago a puzzle hunt at a program I attended had a dominion-themed Meta for the puzzle hunt, which got me thinking. I was wondering if:

A) There is interest for a dominion-themed F.DS puzzle hunt
B) People think it is possible for a few people to write a Dominion/other boardgames themed Puzzle Hunt (run on F.DS) that wouldn't suck.
C) Anyone would be interested in helping me write a puzzle hunt.


The most likely answers are maybe, probably not and no respectively, but if there's any interest its something I would love to attempt to run. College starts September 23rd for me so I have plenty of free time until then (the only other thing I'll be doing is learning LaTeX probably.)
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Re: Dominion Puzzle Hunt?
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2012, 07:56:01 pm »
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How would it look like? Like, what would the puzzle's be?
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Re: Dominion Puzzle Hunt?
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2012, 07:58:45 pm »
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There's also the logistics of when/how to run it, considering that there is a massive range of time zones here. Still, that's certainly possible to account for, and it doesn't really matter since I assume this is primarily for fun. So each team doesn't necessarily need to start at the same time, since who cares? If teams really want to compete, I suppose there could be a timer to measure how long the team took to finish the puzzle hunt.

Hm. I suspect that B is possible. I can't really help with C. But A is the question that actually matters.

EDIT: @Grujah, an example is at http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=1449.msg23524#msg23524. The puzzles probably won't be nearly as difficult.
« Last Edit: August 09, 2012, 08:00:56 pm by Titandrake »
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Re: Dominion Puzzle Hunt?
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2012, 08:27:32 pm »
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Quote from: Grujah on August 09, 2012, 07:56:01 pm
How would it look like? Like, what would the puzzle's be?

Puzzles often involve standard language encoders (Braille, morse code and such are popular choices). May involve googling random things and requiring free-association skills, may involve small amounts of math (as those are the puzzlehunts I have background in).

Basically, easier versions of the MIT link titandrake gave you (because I'm writing it and I'm not a team of 20-200 people talented enough to win MIT mystery hunt).

Puzzles come in "stages", and the solutions to each stage typically form the basis of a "metapuzzle". For example the answers for the dominion-meta I experienced was "playing games" as a hint and

Angela Merkel (Chancellor)
Indiana Jones (Adventurer
Hermione Granger (Witch)

and several others as answers.
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Re: Dominion Puzzle Hunt?
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2012, 08:41:04 pm »
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I'm interested in helping write it if it's going to happen. I've participated in a number of puzzle events including 3 where the event was about creating puzzles.
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Re: Dominion Puzzle Hunt?
« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2012, 09:00:39 pm »
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I was editor-in-chief of the <a href="http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/11/puzzles/">MIT Mystery Hunt a couple of years ago</a>, and would be happy to help write and edit puzzles for this.
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Re: Dominion Puzzle Hunt?
« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2012, 10:20:57 pm »
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I was on the writing team for Mathcamp Puzzle Hunt 2011. ;)
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Re: Dominion Puzzle Hunt?
« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2012, 11:09:42 pm »
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Well, it appears (C) is certainly easily satisfied  ;D

Now.. do we actually have people interested in participating? We'd need a pretty large amount to make it worthwhile..

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Re: Dominion Puzzle Hunt?
« Reply #8 on: August 10, 2012, 12:18:03 am »
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Quote from: O on August 09, 2012, 11:09:42 pm
Well, it appears (C) is certainly easily satisfied  ;D

Now.. do we actually have people interested in participating? We'd need a pretty large amount to make it worthwhile..

If someone needs to participate, I will, but really I want to help make it.  I think participants are overrated, anyway.
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Re: Dominion Puzzle Hunt?
« Reply #9 on: August 10, 2012, 05:04:42 am »
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Glad to see my interest in participating but not creating will be well-received.
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Re: Dominion Puzzle Hunt?
« Reply #10 on: August 10, 2012, 05:14:36 am »
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I might play.
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