Some folks are playing @octothorpean during #mysteryhunt and that's OK. Puzzle Hunts are everwhere and, between them, welcome folks of all puzzling experience levels. When Octothorpean opened up a couple of months ago, pretty everybody playing was an experienced puzzlehuntist. They'd quickly zip through the "intro" puzzles and not slow down that much for the "real" ones.

Lately, there have still been experienced folks playing, but there have been these other teams, too. These other teams act differently. They take hints on the intro puzzles—they're still learning to recognize things like Morse code and indexing and all the rest of our sensical nonsense. They're new and I'm excited to see them. And I kind of wish that they were Mystery Hunting today, that they even knew that the MIT Mystery Hunt was a thing…but then again, they're pretty new. Maybe they'll have a better time in the long run if they learn some stuff and then play in the Mystery Hunt next year. Maybe?