1. It always starts with the Comic
2. Is it a bit breezy in here?
3. Nice weather to eat outdoors?
4. Check out some ill sci fi, bro.
5. Other Pros and ____?
6. Origin Story
7. Top banana
8. See what they did there?
9. Got to use the bathroom.
10. No really, got to use the bathroom.
11. While I'm here, might as well see the school (requires typing)
12. How does a wolf-dog put things on credit?
13. Locations?

HFS: B11 - A4 - A10 - A16 - B4 - A5

What's missing here? (And could you find it in the Rotunda or on the Overpass?)

It's been years since we've done one of these, so maybe it bears a bit more explanation. You start with the location on the internet indicated by 1 and proceed, mainly via links, to the surprise ending.

As much as possible without spoilers, post your progress or lack thereof along the way.

I'm not sure how stable all these links are, so if you want to play, better start now!

EDIT: Crap, broken already. OK, here's a fixed route:

1. It always starts with the Comic
2. Is it a bit breezy in here?
3. Nice weather to eat outdoors?
4. Check out some ill sci fi, bro.
5. How about some games?
6. Origin Story
6.5. Always wanted to see the Rio Grande
7. Top banana
8. See what they did there?
9. Got to use the bathroom.
10. No really, got to use the bathroom.
11. While I'm here, might as well see the school (requires typing)
12. How does a wolf-dog put things on credit?
13. Locations?

HFS: B11 - A4 - A10 - A16 - B4 - A5

What's missing here? (And could you find it in the Rotunda or on the Overpass?)

My inbox is full, so post your answer here, but identify it only by letter and number so I know you really got it.

I'm sure I've got it tracked through 10 correctly (though that site doesn't play nice with https, which threw me for a bit.) I'm 75% sure I'm executing 11 correctly, and have a justifiable route to the end... but it doesn't clarify the last bit at all. I know what the Rotunda and Overpass are referring to, and I can imagine a page connecting them with the bit just above, but I'm not getting it. Tricky tricky...

I can't figure out step 13. I'm fairly sure I've done 1-12 correctly.

Just a tiny hint, once you arrive at 13, you don't need to go anywhere else. The last puzzle is solved right on the page.

Well, I skipped step 8 and didn't have to type step 11 (there is a link). Anyway, I'm probably going to regret this, but my answer is...

B10

Ok, definitely made it to 13. A16 isn't missing from your list, but out of all the options, it's the only one actually missing right now. So I say A16.

Zillitain is correct! Congrats! I'm gonna go ahead and assume you actually solved the last puzzle and didn't just take a lucky guess.

For anyone who wants first runner up points, I will accept the following.

Services: A1 - B4 - ? [space] A1 - B4 - ?

? is a letter of the alphabet, what letter is it?

OK, I'm not seeing the point of 'I see what you did there' - I get the 'gotta go to the bathroom' straight from 'banana', and I don't see the link as it's given.

(I did get to the end, but the last series of clues is sort of inscrutable)

If you're patient enough, you don't need the intermediate link.

Get it? patient enough?



Well they can't be completely inscrutable, since Zillitain solved them. Maybe I've just played way too many "escape the room" games, but they didn't seem that hard to me. You just need to reduce the info coming at you to a bare minimum....

I'm kind of disappointed with how little response this hunt got, but I guess it's just part of the long slow death of the forums.

At any rate, if there are no objections, I'll post the full solution here tomorrow --unless someone posts to tell me to hold off!

OK, kind of sad to do this:

The scavenger hunt is a follow the links game. Most of you seemed to do fine with that. The step people mentioned skipping over was looking at the portfolio for the web design firm --if you wait long enough, the destination comes up on the carousel anyway.

Maybe I've just played too many escape the room games, but I didn't expect the last puzzle to be such a killer. The page has several grids on it, and the code I put in the puzzle directed you to the corresponding boxes, battleship style. Take the first letter in each box, and you spell a name: SCHLOCK for the first one and BUN-BUN for the second. However there is no "K", so the last twist was to notice that of the two choices I gave you, one had a "K" wing, and the other had some other wing.

Grids? Maybe I was on the wrong page after all. I thought the final page was washington.edu/discover

The last page was www.hfs.washington.edu/huskycard/locations -- I recall trying something like the letter replacement that should have turned out SCHLOC, but I don't think I found that.