Puzzles

We on Floorpi really like doing puzzles. We participate in lots of puzzle hunts, including Mystery Hunt, Dash, BAPHL, and PANDA Magazine. Many on hall also enjoy playing trivia games (Sporcle, Quiz Bowl) and doing logic puzzles (US Puzzle Championship, Nikoli, Logic Masters India).

Mystery Hunt

Floorpi has competed in Mystery Hunt for many years, often joined by alumni and friends of hall. Hunting usually takes place in the lounges and residents' rooms, and certain people (such as Ian) have been known to stay awake for an absurd length of time during hunt. Our most recent hall teams were named "✈✈✈Galactic Trendsetters✈✈✈" (2013), "Occupy Leisure Station" (2012), and "Desert Catbus" (2011).

There have historically been a fairly significant number of Mathcampers on hall, and they often hunt with Manic Sages, who won in 2012 and wrote the 2013 hunt. In 2013, a number of hall members also hunted with Palindrome, placing 2nd.

Floorpi Puzzle Results

2013

CISRA Puzzle Competition

[pi] placed 1st of the 211 teams who completed at least one puzzle.

MUMS Puzzle Hunt

[pi] placed 2nd of 138 teams, but received 3rd prize due to not being able to fly to Australia to solve the runaround.

Mystery Hunt

✈✈✈Galactic Trendsetters✈✈✈ (appearing as "wub", which was our Hunt website username; it was second place on our "name the Mystery Hunt team" poll) placed 16th of 44 teams. We were joined by the Stanford University Mathematical Organization for the 2013 hunt.

2012

Mystery Hunt

Occupy Leisure Station placed 17th of 33 teams.

2011

Mystery Hunt

Desert Catbus placed 32nd of 41 teams.