In 2017, my MIT Mystery Hunt team, Death and Mayhem, found the Coin first. I wasn’t actually at MIT at the time. I was helping out as best I could from the great state of Iowa.
The horrible fate of each winning team is that they have to design the following year’s Hunt. For me this was a dream come true: I admired the Mystery Hunt from afar for years, and it was really exciting just to be on a competing team when I joined D&M in 2015. Over the course of 2017 I got to help make the MIT Mystery Hunt which feels like a fictional sentence even now.
Then MLK Day Weekend of 2018 appeared, and I went to Boston to help with Hunt operations in whatever way I could. That was the plan, anyway.
I must have caught something on the plane ride, which probably interacted with the incredible stress of the epic undertaking I had involved myself in, and I fell ill. I was out of commission for like 70% of the weekend. WHOOPS
So let’s get back to 2017: I got to contribute a whole bunch of different things to this Mystery Hunt, and I’m very proud of them, and now, four months later for some reason, I’m devoting a blog post to bragging about them.