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Welcome to the Wiki for the team formerly known as Lake Effect Snow for the MIT Mystery Hunt.

Announcements

VOTE on Logo Proposals

We have had some more serious logo proposals. I have posted them to a new page along with the logo from the earlier page which was actually "logo-sized." PLEASE EDIT THE PAGE TO VOTE ON WHICH YOU LIKE BEST! You can also put in your own ideas if you want, but at this point, it seems a better use of everyone's time to just endorse what they like.

Tutorial

It's come to my attention that not everyone is a wiki-a-holic as I am. *blush* Either way, I'm starting a couple pages to help deal with this.

• Tutorial - if you are unfamiliar with wikis, this'll help you learn. If you are familiar, please add your 2c.
• Sandbox - Beginners can experiment here. do whatever the heck you want, we don't care!

Puzzles

For now I'm putting up a link to where we'll have a puzzle list page, and the kickoff puzzle, and a sample. This should be cleaned up at some point. --Andria 20:34, 7 January 2006 (PST)

• Puzzles list
• Postcard aka "From the Desk..." Kick-Off puzzle
• Sample Puzzle

Room Assignment

Rooms have been assigned.
Ours are not the best.

Our work room (aka HQ) is 36-156. We are sharing a sleeping room, 56-191, with another team, in a building that's a slight walk from our HQ, probably via bridges if we don't want to go outside. We're not sure how big the rooms are. One thing that will need to be kept in mind is that we CANNOT discuss the Hunt in the sleep room since people from at least one opposing team will be present. There is the possibility of instead crashing at a local team member's place so that we do not feel so constrained. And so we can shower. But that's TBD.

--Andria

Wiki Accounts

To get an account on the wiki, please contact Dan or Andria.

Yahoo Group

Please join the Yahoo Group Lake Effect Snow to facilitate emailed communication. If you've already gotten an email about it, follow the directions in the email. Otherwise you can send an email to lake_effect_snow-subscribe@yahoogroups.com to be added automatically.

Intro

The MIT Mystery Hunt officially begins on Friday January 13, 2006. Nathan has registered our team requested two rooms - the plan is to try and get two adjacent rooms so that we can use one for solving and one for sleeping - and we're just waiting for confirmation. (Last year a number of the more freakish of us felt we were losing too much time by doing things like going home and showering.)

If you are able to join the team right from the kickoff around noon on Friday Jan 13, that'd be awesome, but if you have to work then please do trickle in as soon after as possible. We normally start off with a few puzzles to work on Friday afternoon and can't access any others until those are solved, so the pace will pick up after we've unlocked a few additional puzzles.

Useful internal pages

If you're looking for a place to start, please explore the following pages.

• Tutorial
• Sandbox
• Directions
• Supplies
• About the Hunt
• Wiki users
• 2006 team - please add your name!
• Puzzles
• To-Do List
• Helpful Links
• Logo Contest! insufficient participation
• Logos, Revisited from Reuven and Tony at the moment
• Team name insufficient participation
• Sample puzzle-in-progress
• HTML to wiki translation guide

Please see documentation on customizing the interface and the User's Guide for usage and configuration help.