{"id":4148,"date":"2016-01-19T18:26:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T00:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=4148"},"modified":"2020-12-09T10:42:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T16:42:48","slug":"mit-mystery-hunt-and-three-js","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/mit-mystery-hunt-and-three-js\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Mystery Hunt and three.js"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much of my weekend:\u00a0<\/span>The MIT Mystery Hunt<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>is a yearly\u00a0<\/span>giant weekend puzzle race<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>that has well over a thousand participants. Get a taste\u00a0<\/span>here<\/a>\u00a0– this year’s was “easier”, in that a team solved it Sunday evening, almost\u00a053 hours after the hunt began. If you know the answers to this<\/a> or this one<\/a> (both quite graphics-oriented!), let me know, I got nowhere with them.\u00a0Yes, that\u2019s all the information you get, and your goal is to find a word or phrase somehow hidden in what you see. Using a supercomputer is entirely fine. I kept saying “Enhance!<\/a>” but it didn’t help.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are many other amusing puzzles to poke at in this year’s collection<\/a>, such as massive tiled sudokus and flag color pie charts. Give it a look, it’s fun to see the sheer scope and warped brilliance of some of these.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was able to help our\u00a0“small” team of 35+ to solve the last part of one cool puzzle (sadly, the link to it is dead!)\u00a0<\/span>by\u00a0<\/span>using three.js<\/a>. The puzzle itself is fun, it\u00a0was a few-hour-long solve for me, then some time writing a three.js program<\/a> to help find the solution.\u00a0If you want to fast forward, find the final hidden word<\/a> if you can\u2026 (I couldn\u2019t \u2013 a teammate did; I’m an OK\u00a0puzzler, but sometimes forget the maxim, “look again, and again.” And, looking back on it four years later, I can’t seen the word now!)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Much of my weekend:\u00a0The MIT Mystery Hunt\u00a0is a yearly\u00a0giant weekend puzzle race\u00a0that has well over a thousand participants. Get a taste\u00a0here\u00a0– this year’s was “easier”, in that a team solved it Sunday evening, almost\u00a053 hours after the hunt began. If you know the answers to this or this one (both quite graphics-oriented!), let me know, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4148"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5447,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148\/revisions\/5447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}