Hill Hunt

BANG 34: Hill Hunt was a puzzlehunt the afternoons of October 24 and (reran) November 7, 2015 in San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill neighborhood. It was an instance of the Bay Area Night Game, a puzzlehunt in which you scurry around a neighborhood for a few hours, solving puzzles. Each puzzle used the idea of "telegraph", "hill", and/or Telegraph Hill; most puzzles used more than one of those.

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Materials

• Prep Mail email sent to team captains before the hunt
• Starting packet. Teams got this when they registered, some minutes before the game start. They were told there was a puzzle in there they could start working on immediately.
  • Codesheet (Morse, 5-Bit Binary, NATO Phonetic, Semaphore)
  • Info Sheet
  • Treasures of Telegraph Hill
  • Fashion Statement
• Shakespeare
• Crosswordese
• Trees
• Parrots
• Steps
• Instagram
• Visual
• Wireless
• Hunt (Meta)

Results

The winning teams were Semiswift (formerly known as Pale Starches) and the Burnin’ Beaters.

• Run 1: October 24
• Run 2: November 7

Why two winners from two weekends? The scores aren't directly comparable: GC changed things in between.

• Larry's Photos

Credits

• Core GC: Larry Hosken, Jan Chong, Yar Woo & Paul Rundle via ththgc at googlegroups dot com
• Excellent site monitors: Moops, Tardigrade Appreciation Society, Team Snout, Deb Goldstein, Chris Yao, Galactic Trendsetters, The Walkin' Eds
• Dry run playtest teams: Moops and Tardigrade Appreciation Society
• Dry run clutch GC stand-in: Chris Yao
• Remote playtesters: Chris Yao, Joe Fendel, Todd Etter, CanNibble, and Team MAXIMUM SALARY.
• Early GC: Deb Goldstein, Scott Royer
• Awesome App: ClueKeeper