New: Puzzle Hunts are Everywhere, Even Brevard County, Florida

Brevard County Florida was already cool what with Cape Canaveral and all. But it's even cooler now: they have Midnight Madness Brevard. It's pretty The Game-like, but different. The activities are likely to be less puzzle-y and more likely to be a rebus whose answer is a location. It's team based, vehicle based; you're driving at night. Local knowledge seems useful--some of these puzzles seem like they'd be pretty hard if you didn't know local street names. There's activities which are different from what I've seen--creative, make you think "Oh hey wow I wouldn't have thought of that; diversity's a good thing."

It looks like the same organization runs these, and it runs a few each year. This suggests that they don't try to do some extravaganza. And, OK, a quick rebus isn't as exquisite as a word search with an embedded ternary message and letter-forms (which is darned exquisite, and I appreciate that). But... it seems like people keep playing anyhow. One suspects that these folks are having plenty of fun. What's that thing Curtis says about cold pizza vs no pizza? Yeah, that.

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Posted 2009-06-17