Figured I'd post a quick update so it didn't seem like we went dark on everyone today. We got into Boston pretty late tonight, so the full recap will have to wait (Jonathan's on it, but won't finish tonight.)
The leg in New York today was great, though. While yesterday in NJ was probably my least favorite leg, the New York one may have been my favorite so far.
We had three waves of puzzles today. The first was a pretty straightforward wave that took us all over Manhattan from Central Park to Times Square to Battery Park. The second was a purely optional bonus wave with a linear sequence of very difficult, but all fair and solvable puzzles, all in Central Park. The third was a set of driving puzzles to solve on the way to Boston that told us where to go and what the final password of the leg was.
We got a solid 10 hours of puzzling in today, as we didn't finish the final location puzzle until around 7pm. Good news is that we solved the bonus wave and got a 3 hour bonus, so our actual time was probably somewhere around 7 hours. And we've still solved every puzzle in the hunt and not taken a hint, which we decided a few days ago was one of our top goals for the week.
Tomorrow we've got the final leg in Boston which should prove to be fun. It is a little sad the adventure is almost over, but it has been an amazing experience so far.
Your challenge for Boston is to use "wicked" as much as you can in recaps and conversations with Bostonians. e.g. The General Hooker gate at the state house was wicked crowded!
ReplyDeleteChallenge 2: take a pic of someone (or each team member?) sitting on one of the duck statues. Bonus points if you have to fight a kid for the privilege.