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cjb / codex-blackboard

Meteor app for coordinating solving for our MIT Mystery Hunt team
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Automatically create a Meta Meta puzzle page in the event it is needed? #126

Open nothorian opened 10 years ago

nothorian commented 10 years ago

Create a Meta Meta puzzle page automatically that will aggregate the answers to earlier Meta puzzles much like a normal Meta puzzle? This provides a place for people to work on such a puzzle (which can be renamed if the hunt actually provides it one).

In 2014, we pre-emptively created a round "Wonderland Meta Meta" but it didn't have the information about the other Meta puzzles. It turns out there wasn't a Meta Meta anyway, but I could see this being a useful page.

It also makes it possible to implement https://github.com/cjb/codex-blackboard/issues/125 to hide Meta puzzle solutions without fear of making it more difficult to aggregate Meta puzzle solutions as part of solving a Meta Meta.

cscott commented 10 years ago

Every hunt is different. I think it's best to manually create a 'Meta Meta' round, or 'Runaround' round or what-have-you as needed. I am hesitant to try to tie things too closely to hunt structure, which is inherently unpredictable. The basic ideas of 'puzzles', 'rounds', and 'groups of rounds' seem to be solid, and then we adlib whatever else is necessary. For example, the MIT 'round' this year had several different levels of metas and a runaround; we handled that by just adding extra puzzles to the round.