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  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  spend three consecutive days taping coins to the world's longest hallway

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Puzzled need a quick fix for your boredom? try this puzzle on for size.

  

  Each year during IAP, MIT has it's annual mystery hunt, and teams from all over come to MIT to compete to solve insane brain teasers with hopes to find a coin hidden somewhere on MIT's campus typically over the

  • by Bryan
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  and made it back to my team headquarters around 2 PM Saturday. The coin ... the hidden coin wins- which means they have the privilege of writing next year's Hunt. Normally, that means someone finds the coin and the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  coin and win the hunt in a mere 25--no, 15--no, 5 puzzles, if they'd only ... teams found the coin within a few hours of starting the hunt, they ... location of the coin: the Alumni Pool! So, we raced over to the Alumni Pool

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  and I give you my thoughts as a parent. There is only one coin. There are many sides to the coin, but there is only one coin. And you can flip

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  of a hidden coin. I'm [annotation note="I am on the same team as Shuli

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  would instead. The prize? Chocolate coins. Frank Wilczek, at the 2014 Ig ... article and pulled from his podium a bag of...chocolate coins, to waive tauntingly at Dr. Wilczek. Whether or not Dr. Wilczek won the coins would fully

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  are you stressed/anxious/ [emotion] about finals/decisions/[noun]?  here are some adorable dogs. also, me as james bond.

  

  photographed with a replica) As the centuries-old saying that I coined yesterday

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 13, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  .510.  Probability and Measure Flip a coin a bunch of times ... (approximately) normally distributed, and gets more so the more coins you flip.  But this isn't just a fact about coins; analogous statements are

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. The only prize for the winning

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  wasn't in San Francisco proper, it was in Concord). COIN - Sept. 23, 2022 ... anticipated that COIN wasn't SUPER popular yet so I didn't have to show up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  the last year's hunt prepares the puzzles and hides a coin somewhere on ... to open 0_0 The box contained chocolate coins (which I ate, even

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Events

  1 Month, 0 Classes IAP tomorrow and an opportunity to mystery hunt!

  

  together with friends to solve puzzles that will lead you to a coin hidden somewhere on campus. The hunt starts Friday at noon and ends when the coin is

  • by Bryan
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  coin. The winning team then writes the Mystery Hunt the next year. Team ... take the coin, because they wouldn’t want to write hundreds of puzzles ... coin-like object. All of these rules can be subverted, and often a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  into a metal detector, and used on an overturned beach to find coins with

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert An annual tradition bringing famous bands to campus.

  

  favorite song was really hard; sometimes, it was a near coin toss. 1966: The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  that the Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight found the coin at 8

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  to exchange my piggy bank's coins. Soon enough, we were at the airport

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2006 announced

  

  ultimate goal of finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005