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yomikoma held a puzzle potluck birthday party. I wrote a puzzle called Constellation Celebration, and in honor of his 51st birthday today, I finally finished writing up my solution for it. But you should totally try to solve it yourself first! And feel free to ping me for hints before giving up and looking at the solution.
This is the first "real", full-length MIT Mystery Hunt-style puzzle I've written, and I'm moderately proud of how it turned out. If I had had more time (i.e. if I hadn't procrastinated until so close to the deadline), I might have tried harder to make the constellation names be a bit less contrived. It was only after I'd finished the whole thing that I realized that this could have worked as a metapuzzle, with 13 feeder puzzles that could have justified the contrivedness of their answers. Maybe next time...
Anyway, happy birthdayyomikoma and cnoocy!
yomikoma held a puzzle potluck birthday party. I wrote a puzzle called Constellation Celebration, and in honor of his 51st birthday today, I finally finished writing up my solution for it. But you should totally try to solve it yourself first! And feel free to ping me for hints before giving up and looking at the solution.This is the first "real", full-length MIT Mystery Hunt-style puzzle I've written, and I'm moderately proud of how it turned out. If I had had more time (i.e. if I hadn't procrastinated until so close to the deadline), I might have tried harder to make the constellation names be a bit less contrived. It was only after I'd finished the whole thing that I realized that this could have worked as a metapuzzle, with 13 feeder puzzles that could have justified the contrivedness of their answers. Maybe next time...
Anyway, happy birthday
yomikoma and cnoocy!