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2007 Mystery Hunt
Jan. 21st, 2007 08:36 pmI haven't written anything about this year's Mystery Hunt. Also, I don't intend to. A lot of other people have probably written about this year's Hunt, but I fell behind on LJ in the last week, and so I haven't read those things. Also, I don't intend to.
I like post-mortems as much as the next guy; no, probably more. But somehow, while I've enjoyed discussing things with my team, I don't feel any particular need to go through the typical recriminations and praises and so forth.
I did read the posts, and comments, on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thedan's blog. I didn't reply to any of them, though, tempted as I was. He talked about, and people replied to, thoughts about what he called "sweatshop teams" who, when he visited, looked more focused on solving than socializing. Noah has thoughts about "pure" vs. "shell" metas, about whether the Round VIII Meta was broken, and so forth, and I by and large won't comment on those, either. I will say that he talks about the 2003 hunt having "shell" metas, metapuzzles in which you put the words into a framework rather than just using them as words; but that by my count, there were only two rounds of seven where the answers were used as transformations on a grid (I'm not counting Round 2; we could have left out the grid, but that would have only made it harder). (I'll also note with amusement that he complains that, for the Mystery Hunt, "starting out with a round of pop-culture and a round of sports was somewhat inappropriate"; whereas many Hunters complain that having too many crossword-and-wordplay puzzles is inappropriate.)
( OK, maybe a little opinion. )
I like post-mortems as much as the next guy; no, probably more. But somehow, while I've enjoyed discussing things with my team, I don't feel any particular need to go through the typical recriminations and praises and so forth.
I did read the posts, and comments, on
thedan's blog. I didn't reply to any of them, though, tempted as I was. He talked about, and people replied to, thoughts about what he called "sweatshop teams" who, when he visited, looked more focused on solving than socializing. Noah has thoughts about "pure" vs. "shell" metas, about whether the Round VIII Meta was broken, and so forth, and I by and large won't comment on those, either. I will say that he talks about the 2003 hunt having "shell" metas, metapuzzles in which you put the words into a framework rather than just using them as words; but that by my count, there were only two rounds of seven where the answers were used as transformations on a grid (I'm not counting Round 2; we could have left out the grid, but that would have only made it harder). (I'll also note with amusement that he complains that, for the Mystery Hunt, "starting out with a round of pop-culture and a round of sports was somewhat inappropriate"; whereas many Hunters complain that having too many crossword-and-wordplay puzzles is inappropriate.)( OK, maybe a little opinion. )