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Washington Post Hunt

This Sunday, if you are in the DC area, there is a puzzle contest sponsored by the Washington Post.  Last year’s contest seems very fun and quite challenging, going by this article. I’ll be playing on a team with a friend from highschool—if anyone else is interested, let me know!

Crazy Scavenger Hunt Apartment

I just saw this on gizmodo. Some architect secretly built a huge scavenger hunt into an apartment.

FTA:

It took the family months to discover the scavenger hunt and weeks after that to figure it all out.

Wow it would be cool to discover that in your house. More from the New York Times

Welcome to Insight Required!

Hi there! Welcome to Insight Required, a site filled with directionless puzzles.

The puzzles on this site require you to figure out not only the answer, but also the way to get there. We've written an example puzzle, so that you can see one way to arrive at the solution. The kinds of manipulations allowed by the rules are nearly limitless--it's your job to figure out what to do.

Each puzzle has a toolbox below it. In the toolbox are some useful things for that puzzle: you can download the PDF, see any notes about the puzzle, check an answer, or request the solution. You'll have to have patience for the solution--you'll receive it in an email 24 hours later.

We were inspired to make this site from our experiences in the College Puzzle Challenge. We really enjoyed those puzzles, and searched for more puzzles of the same sort. There were none to be found, so we made some for one another.

Feel free to discuss the puzzles, resources for their solution or anything else on the forum.

We hope you enjoy solving these puzzles as much as we enjoy making them.