Puzzle Hunt

2015-06-01T00:04:40Z

Sguertin: /* Past themes */

=About=
Puzzle Hunt is a puzzle hunt, that is an interactive event for people who want to complete puzzles and logic test. The PuzzleHuntCMU group's variety is usually a day-long event for teams of 2-5 that incorporates logic puzzles as well as a plot and sometimes interactive puzzles. It often takes Way Too Long but is also Lots Of Fun. It occurs roughly every semester.

=History of Affiliation with KGB=
Puzzle Hunt was originally a KGB event. It was written and produced by members, pizza lunch and props were sponsored by KGB dollars, and mostly KGB members participated. As the event became more well-known on campus though, non-members made up a larger group of participants. In the 2008-2009 range, some KGB members believed that KGB should no longer be associated with Puzzle Hunt while others saw no reason to deny them funding. This small issue of funding responsibilities was eventually resolved in Fall 2011 when Facebook offered to sponsor the event.

Since then, the hunt has been sponsored by Facebook and Dropbox in various semesters. The staff and participants are still largely (though not solely) comprised of KGB members, and the Puzzle Hunt planning wiki still exists on KGB's website. The event is un-officially run by a group which adopted the name PuzzleHuntCMU on Facebook and is not a CMU-recognized organization.

=Past themes=

Spring 2007 - Soviet Alice in Wonderland

Fall 2007 - Where in the World is Carmen San Diego

Spring 2008 - Hackorp / Trust Busters

Fall 2008 - Psychic Agents for Geller Hotel (highly interactive, teams of psychics solve to recover their powers)

Spring 2009 - Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey (time travel)

Fall 2009 - Cerulean Augmented (teams learn they are clones of one another and have to make decisions on what to do with other teams)

Spring 2010 - The Wizard's Elemental Tower (adventuring party to find the wizard who was once thought bad but is revealed to be a good guy in danger)

Fall 2010 - (Hunt didn't happen this semester because we were all lamers)

Spring 2011 - Jackson Detective Agency (film noirey detective story with a mayor, an adultering wife, and three mob bosses)

Fall 2011 - Babel Systems (Aperture Science-esque, teams must escape from industry)

Spring 2012 - The Great Library (Myst-inspired, teams world-jump in order to rebuild and return to their own home)

Fall 2012 - The Weathermen (CMU alternate universe with a weather machine and conspiracy theorists)

Spring 2013 - Pirate Treasure Hunt (teams acquire staff members and battle the Ice Pirates)

Fall 2013 - An Infinitely Improbable Puzzle Hunt (Hitchhiker's Guide themed, teams must save the Earth from becoming an inter-galactic highway)

Spring 2014 - Zombies

Fall 2014 - Bird Hunt

Spring 2015 - Space

=Links=

For a great example: [[A Maze of Twisty Passages (KGB Puzzle Hunt)]]

Puzzle Hunt wiki: http://puzzlehuntwiki.cmukgb.org/

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2013-10-17T04:34:43Z

Sguertin: Fixed the KGBoobs committee, because Zora didn't include it.

OFFICER REPORTS
Broman
Had a weekend
event for three minutes before puzzlehunt planning
but not entirely because there were more mistakes
then puzzlehunt
there were mistakes
it went okay
did work eventually on sunday
decided not to sleep
watched highlights of football on the internet
Caroline
had a week
started with a hat that did nothing to her
still only in the double digits of job applications sent out this week
has a group project and everyone is chill and awesome
doesn't know what karmic reprecussions will happen
JRAM
had a weekend
started with sliver of the event
then lots of puzzlehunt being broken
then being fine
has been playing dota with friends instead of work
event
video game night
wean 5300
friday at 7:00
we'll post a thing for people to sign up to bring things

Marlena
had a weekend
involved being possessed by a deceased soviet officer
after that work maybe got done
PRAVDA!

Zora

Dillon
had a weekend
planning puzzlehunt
planning runaround for hunt during hunt
went rather well
then did lots and lots of work on sunday

Mike
had a weekend
friend visited
soviet possession didn't really know how to drive a car
didn't notice the puzzlehunt problems
tried to do work on sunday but comics instead

COMMITTEE REPORTS
ccolombo is an anti aircraft tank: it's not a challenge. it's not

ad hoc lie on the floor try not to cry cry a lot: the puzzlehunt was a field of broken dreams

innovative tech: this is actually a tech talk, they lied about KGB
sign your name on a blank piece of paper for the Adventure Initiative

illust journalist: various ghosts, spirits, whites, and revenants have appeared for an annual haunting of Tad McDaniels
who allegedly murdered someone once

ad hoc I would have gotten away with it

scp: any ghosty things can be returned to scp for a reward

dkirby scared stupid: got dead space

booth: planning in porter a18a on sunday at 3 for the rest of the semester

innovative tech
will not accept brides as bribes
there's a typo

guid of calam intent: calling evil seafood a buynch of little bitches

evil seafood: what i'm sorry we can't hear you over the sound of your families screaming

ad hoc what is this: i don't even

eforney is pretty: pintrest

50 shades of xander: electric bill came back with refund for 12 dollars
nobody complained, they cyborg

OLD BUSINESS
The Thing!
too many freshmen going home is not skyes fault

NEW BUSINESS

captain vulcanov: zis is not games, zis is training exercises
ad hoc twister chess: many butts
ad hoc words: success
PASSES
$10 to Marlena, she and anyoen else who will wear the hat

dkirby scared stupid: to report on any scary games that he will play
isn't it made redundant by the existance of dan?
change title to scared by stupid: to report onterrible horror movies
FAILS
change purpose to shit dan does:
already exists
committ discussion to dkirby is so full of himself to make it a subcommittee
PASSES

kgbutts committe: put all of kbg butts above kgb heads
so twister chess
change name to semore butts
no
isn't this committee a little cheeky
ad hoc kgb gymnastics: success
motion ot append cloud
mis ap spoken song lyrics: lookit dat butt x3
touchin' butts: doesn't say anythign
change name to kgands
fails
PASSES
$7 to stuart, anyone with a butt will chair

outdated memes: hail englip
JACK'S VAN JACK'S VAN
why aren't you buying more tangerines
this this this this this this this this this this this this this this
by the power of grayskull
tortellini
epic fail
epic win
lol
invisible bicycle
dancing baby gif
supersonic limpo: pew pew pew
yuma yuma
omg shoes
the bubonic plague
stahp
dillon would like to welcome the kgb to the internet
charlie bit my finger
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE
xander votes no on everything
FAILS

twister chess league: oversee all games of twister chess and ensure that they're all unsafe and unproductive
change name to strip twister chess committee
not yet friendly
kgbutts approves of both
isn't this a committee a duplicate of the kgbutts committee
mis ap spoken song lyrics: .....
ad hoc recursion: approval
make committee the set of all committees that don't contain themselves
dillontory: dillon!
$4 to zeph, dillon will chair

ill spirit and bitter: bid on committees so that people will have to pay more
mis ap alcoholist committee: would like to know how this committee feels about bitters
this is what drew does already
report from treasurer: yessssssss
PASSES
$14 to Drew, he will chair

the committee of the real meaning of columbus day: spread spirit of columbus day by invading everyone's yards and spreading new diseases
Caroline thought that the true spirit was for cmu students to complain about how everyone got the day off
no you're all wrong take credit for things that other people have done first
no you're all wrong the real purpose is to kick people out of their homes
you're all just wrong
wait but isn't it just a holiday where we watch Colombo
oh god why committee: you should not do these things around xander
no you're all wrong take credit for things that other people have done first
PASSES
$3 to mcginnis, disbanded

flat earth: if the earth was round then we'll all just roll off it
actually with a sufficiently large sphere and the right axis you can get it to rock in stable motion forever
ptolemy was right, motion to append geotension
nope
motion to declare universe as flat
out of order
don't worry earth, one day you'll hit puberty
mis ap don't worry it's for science: we sent some one to investigate. Don't worry, it's for science
append turtles all the way down
conspiracy theory: if the earth is flat then how did we fake the moon landing
max bid committee: approves
guild of calam: if the earth is so flat, then how did we take over your govt?
PASSES
$2 to drew, disbanded

kgboobs: to provide companionship to the kgbutts committee
$29 to drew - appreciators of boobs will chair

dillon's weight in gold: to procure enough gold to replace dillon as treasurer
replace water in r7 with lard
glasses of water can be purchased at the moon for $10 a pop
will this golden dillon still be a pokemon?
yes, shiny
change kgb to gold standard
no
JRAM: diet tip: if you eat multiple things from the same animal then only the first thing counts
Caroline: waffle are shaped like 0s so they have 0 calories
change committee to make dillon fat
PASSES
don't worry it's for science: jram and caroline's statements true
inov tech: gold machine turns you bald
dillontory: many counts of noooooo
point of order: we need $2.6 million
PASSES
$10 to McGinnis, anyone who might have the treasurers will chair

allocation not to exceed $50 for the event

crazy horse: do any experiment possible for the kgb
change name to crazy train
passes
kgb mashup: trains just iron horses
we're goin' off the reins on a crazy horse
spaghetti
PASSES
$11 to Zeph, mike will chair

kgbrains: we're more than our kgbutts and [REDACTED]
kgb zombies approve greatly
all we want to do is want your brains, we're not unreasonable
I mean, no one's gonna eat your eyes
append to purpose particle physics
PASSES
mis ap skeptics: there is nothing to support string theory
change name to kgboner
FAILS
change name to kgbiceps
FAILS
change name to kgb rains
FAILS
PASSES
$25 to drew, people who appreciate brains

ANNOUNCEMENTS

EVENT
videogame night
friday at 7 in Wean 5300 corridor
sign up in the google doc to bring things

Sweatshirts!
we're gonna post a facebook thing, fill it out

CtFwS is in 11 days!
Judges meeting at some point
if you want to judge send exec an email
required that you've played before

Boooooooth
planning meeting
porter a18a, 3:00 on Sunday

pre-ctfws
we're gonna take and hold the fence next week
also doing fun and interesting things! like handing out candy and ribbons
we need people to sign up!
googledoc on the internet

SCHMUCKS

round of applause for drew for funding kgb

new episodes of doctor who uncovered
mcginnis has enemy of the world
he'll stream it at some point

it's been recently uncovered that episodes of 3rd rock--DAMMIT THOMAS GET OUT OF MY HEAD

illust journalists gonna start planning and doing things this midsemester break
message xander on facebook

innovative tech is recruiting out the door

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Puzzle Hunt

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