{"id":85,"date":"2007-01-16T03:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T03:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/?p=85"},"modified":"2007-01-16T03:43:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T03:43:00","slug":"yay-second-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2007\/01\/yay-second-place","title":{"rendered":"yay, second place!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still a little woozy from the weekend. I feel like maybe I&#8217;m getting just a little bit old to pull an all-nighter, but when someone signed me up for the 2-10 am &#8220;puzzle devil&#8221; shift, how could I say no? I&#8217;m practically nocturnal here anyhow, so it was not much of a stretch.<\/p>\n<p>So, we came in second by about 90 minutes. Once I learned that another team had won the Mystery Hunt, I decided to try to go home and get caught up on sleep. Little did I know that my team was hot on the trail of the solution and called it in almost before I was back to Kate&#8217;s place.<\/p>\n<p>The good news about being second is that you get to participate in the hunt the next year. The poor winners &#8212; a team named Doctor Awkward &#8212; have to BUILD the hunt next year which I think will be a lot of work, albeit fun work. In the meantime, I have some time to bone up on puzzling and see if I can hone my skills enough to be a benefit to the team in ways that aren&#8217;t just organizational next year. Here are some links.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/puzzle\/www\/07\/puzzles\/\">The puzzles from this year&#8217;s hunt<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/puzzle\/\">MIT Mystery Hunt<\/a> main page.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jessamyn.vox.com\/library\/post\/pictures-or-it-didnt-happen-mit-mystery-hunt.html\">My post about the Mystery Hunt on Vox<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/tags\/mitmysteryhunt\/\">few pictures of the hunt from me<\/a> on Flickr and <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/tags\/mysteryhunt\/?\">a few from other people<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/jessamyn\" rel=\"tag\">jessamyn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/abada+abada\" rel=\"tag\">abada abada<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/mystery+hunt\" rel=\"tag\">mystery hunt<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/mit\" rel=\"tag\">mit<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/puzzles\" rel=\"tag\">puzzles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2007\/01\/yay-second-place\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to yay, second place!\"><p>I&#8217;m still a little woozy from the weekend. I feel like maybe I&#8217;m getting just a little bit old to pull an all-nighter, but when someone signed me up for the 2-10 am &#8220;puzzle devil&#8221; shift, how could I say no? I&#8217;m practically nocturnal here anyhow, so it was not much of a stretch. So, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[572],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized","h-entry","hentry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}