: New: Puzzle Hunts are Everywhere, even Downtown SF

That @Mastermindhunts San Francisco hunt was the real deal. Yeah, yeah—they mostly run short hunts for not-so-puzzly people. But but but hey I'm telling you—they also run some more serious events. And for this here event today, they had an "expert" division, aimed at Our People. I played with Team Sloth: brave captain Bruce Lin, his wive Flavia, Allen Cohn, Deanna Rubin, and some dude named Jay. As befits "Sloth", we finished late... but that's because we were having fun and wanted to finish.

We got all of the puzzles at the beginning, so we could divvy them up amongst team members. (I didn't see all the puzzles; but I could have if I'd been a bit more moth-y, there was a tractable number.) Puzzles didn't solve to words like MONGOOSE or whatever. Instead, each puzzle would end up giving you a set of instructions: go to such-and-such place, look for such-and-such feature, note down such-and-such observation. Depending on the puzzle, some of this instruction might be in plaintext, but some of it would be puzzle-ish. Sometimes there'd be a puzzle that would be super-difficult—except you knew you were looking for the name of a street that intersected Powell, so that narrowed it down.

So it wasn't like a linear BANG; it was more like a Mastermind Hunt, but bigger-scale than their small evening hunts.

Keep an eye out for another of these (next year, I ?guess?). I know some of y'all were turning up your noses, but it was good times, I swearz.

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