Puzzle Hunts are Everywhere, even Cambridge, MA in the frickin wintertime AGAIN

I'm back from Boston, having helped run the 2020 MIT Mystery Hunt. For now, you can see the puzzles at pennypark.fun, but soon-ish we hope to move them to https://www.mit.edu/~puzzle/. (That's what I'm working on now—webmonkey tasks that we didn't have time to get to before the hunt. E.g., getting that [SPOILER REDACTED] video into the solution-page for the Tall Tales puzzle…oh hey that just finished uploading. Guess I should stop blogging and get back to web-monkeying.)

Anyhow, write-up coming… eventually. After web-monkeying is done. And some surprisingly-important things I've been putting off until I was done with this (Hi, Curtis!).

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Three especially-popular blog posts from last year:

• Some people think I went overboard writing an app and designing an elaborate ritual to tell me where to take my walks, but… In which I belittle other folks' impressive accomplishments.
• Book Report: How Smart Machines Think about a readable book on a potentially-difficult subject.
• Were you excited to hear that I'd written a set of Puzzled Pint puzzles… Link to that set of Puzzled Pint puzzles from me this year… good grief, was that this year‽, he said, in a daze from Mystery Hunt efforts…

(I thought it might be nice to post something like this annually, giving occasional visitors a way to "catch up" on the blog. Now that Facebook can no longer import blog posts, folks who follow me on Facebook don't normally see my blog posts. I'm too lazy to hand-copy all of my blog posts over to Facebook… But once a year, I could hand-copy a "best of" blog post. Anyhow, I'm doing that again today. And I can do that again next year, uhm, if I remember?)

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