If your memory is very good, you might remember there was a TV crew getting footage at the 2020 MIT Mystery Hunt.
Specifically, I dodged around that crew as I carried pancakes at the Pancake Pictionary Character Breakfast event.*
Now a TV Show, CBS Sunday Morning, has aired a feature using that footage.
Thus you can now see some video of the pancake event. Also, they show folks milling around spots on the
Rumpelstiltskin's Cottage
mini-runaround puzzle that I wrote: staring at a giant periodic table, rubbing George Eastman's nose, etc.
Yeah, that's right: I made an especially telegenic Mystery Hunt puzzle (albeit by piggybacking on scenic MIT spots).
Anyhow, you can take a look. It starts out with stuff from the 2020 MIT Mystery Hunt and then gets into other puzzly interests of author A.J. Jacobs.
*The TV crew was there to follow an author around.
When I wrote about it, I got the author wrong, relaying a false rumor, d'oh.
The correct author was A.J. Jacobs.
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