Puzzled

The Mystery Hunt was last weekend. It was unexpectedly musicals-themed and expectedly exhaustingly awesome. I wanted to briefly highlight my favorite puzzles from this year:

My first puzzle of the hunt was Revisiting History, which was Doctor Who themed. The first set of answers were fun and easy to assemble, but it took us an embarrassingly long time to extract the final solution. (Not the writer’s fault, we were just warming up, I guess.)

Picture an Acorn is a puzzle full of puns. How could I not love it? It was voted best in the hunt.

And my personal favorite: Yo Dawg, I Herd You Like Puzzle Hunts (So I made you a puzzle hunt in your puzzle hunt so that you can solve a hunt while you solve the hunt.) A really clever puzzle with several layers. It took us a while to solve but not because we were stuck staring at it for ages, rubbing our chins and wondering what to do next. It’s just very rich.

Those links bring you to the hunt website. You can get the solutions to the puzzles by clicking on the link in the righthand corner.

If you did the hunt this year, what puzzles would you recommend going back and doing?