On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Jerrad Pierce wrote: > Okay, again (please reply to me & the list) if you are interested in > participating in the MIT Mystery Hunt this weekend. We don;t really know > what it is other than that it involves solving puzzles, to find out as > little as we know see: http://mit.edu/puzzle/
Glancing over this site, the puzzles look fiendishly difficult. Like, say, http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/96/gifpuzzle.html -- it's a psychedelic mangling of an Escher print that, when viewed with XV, and, well: If you look at the colormap as a 16x16 grid (as shown in xv) and you look at each color component separately (an easy way to do this is to set the gamma value for a single component to 1000 and set the gamma value for the other two components to 0) you get: Red - SHO Green - EPR Blue - INT For an answer of shoeprint. That's just obscene. How are you supposed to jump through those hoops? This doesn't *quite* scare me away, but if the whole thing is like this it might be too arcane & obscure to be any fun. But I'll try anyhow... :) I won't be able to get there until after dinner, if that's not too late. How will I be able to find the group? Will anyone have a cell phone, or will you know by tomorrow which room you're going to be meeting in? Given that it seems to run until well into Sunday, how late will people be working on it on Friday evening? -- Chris Devers "People with machines that think, will in times of crisis, make up stuff and attribute it to me" - "Nikla-nostra-debo"
