Whats This Mystery Hunt Thing

What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing Sotheres this Mystery Hunt thingyou might have heard of it. Its awesome. Its lots of fun. You should do it when you get here. Or keep working on those puzzles that Snively and Brian postedâ€"we still dont have right answers to those! Anyway, Im only posting just now, because Ive been Operating. Death From Above is a HUGE team (our mailing list tells me that there are 115 people!), and probably 1/4 or 1/3 of those are hunting remotely, instead of from on campus. Smaller teams can coordinate by just yelling across the room. Since we cant really get away with that, we have an Operator (inspired by the Matrix). Its the Operators job to keep track of whos working on which puzzle, where they are, how theyre doing, whether theyve slept, and when theyre hitting their heads against the wall so hard their brains are going to fall out. In addition, the Operator is responsible for calling in answers. When you think you have an answer to a puzzle, you fill out a little form on the official Hunt website, and they call you to check your answer. As the operator, I take other peoples answers and call them in, so I also get to enjoy all of the excitement when we get an answer right (which happens pretty rarely, for the recordâ€"were averaging less than one an hour). So Ive got this awesome little command and control center in the corner of our headquarters. Theres my laptop in the middle, where I watch what answers have been submitted, an extra computer on the left, where I have Skype, AIM, and Jabber open to talk to remoters, and the VOIP phone on the right that we borrowed from IST (because cell reception here is practically non-existent). I realized last year that Im a lot better at trying to organize people than I am at actually solving puzzles, so Ive been focusing on doing that. Every day since Friday, Ive shown up at noon, sat behind the desk for about 14-16 hours (with occasional interruptions to run over to the other rooms), and then gone home and slept for a few hours. It can be boring, but it gets really exciting every few hours because youre talking with 5 or 6 remoters, and trying to handle 3 different people who all have answers at the same time, and the phone just starts ringing off the hook, andits just awesome. So much fun. Anyway, thats my Mystery Hunt story. Anyway, back to the phonesâ€"while I was writing this, we just solved 3 more puzzles! (although were still at less than 1 per hour) Post Tagged #Mystery Hunt