This weekend was the annual MIT Mystery Hunt. I hunted for Codex, like last year. We didn’t win, but you don’t need to win to enjoy mystery hunt.
My favorite puzzle, and the one to which I contributed most, was probably
“20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, which started as a cryptic crossword with the additional conceit that “sub” was treated as a single letter, then became 4 simultaneous overlapping battleship puzzles, and ended with a reference to Barney Miller, a Captain (of the police force) who worked with Fish (a guy named Fish).
Back to reality, now.