Joey and I just got back from Archon, St. Louis, an awesome annual sci-fi convention. During the weekend we played games, sold books and participated in panels — all oodles of fun BUT the best of all was at 4:00 pm on Saturday afternoon when Joey and I ran our first ever Archon puzzle hunt. The theme of the hunt was based around a delegation of enraged Plutonians who were angry that they small planet had been demoted by some humans.
What better way to convince the Earthlings that they were wrong about Pluto but by making them solve a bunch of puzzles to learn all about their small proud planet.
Sixty intrepid puzzlers took the challenge and came to solve the Plutonian hunt and kept solving until they’d worked their way through all five puzzles. Here they are hard at work solving.
The highlight was one puzzle that required the team as a whole to sing the newly deciphered Plutonian National Anthem in order to progress. The teams did so with such gusto and good spirit.
Want to solve the puzzles too? Stay tuned to this page. I’ve decided to publish a variation of this hunt for my annual Chanukah Hunt this year. In the meantime here’s a final pic of one the delegation returning to her abode.
