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It's impressive how computer technology keeps making puzzle hunt construction get harder. Like how much a search engine or Wikipedia helps with the original Mys
by schoen 4y ago
It's impressive how computer technology keeps making puzzle hunt construction get harder. Like how much a search engine or Wikipedia helps with the original Mystery Hunts
https://puzzles.mit.edu/1981/mysteryhunt1981.pdf https://puzzles.mit.edu/1981/mysteryhunt1981.pdf
https://puzzles.mit.edu/1982/mysteryhunt1982.pdf https://puzzles.mit.edu/1982/mysteryhunt1982.pdf
or how much human effort an image ID or song ID task was expected to require in the early 2000s...
- ehsankia 4y agooh absolutely, you have things like /r/PictureGame who have perfected the art of fooling reverse image search. Meanwhile many world puzzles put specific tricks to fool Nutrimatic, or anagrams that can't be easily brute forced. It is definitely an arms race.