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by Smaug123 895 days ago
The MIT Mystery Hunt starts today, and Mathematica is my go-to language and environment for puzzle hunts. As the saying goes, it's the second-best tool for everything. Fast iteration on ill-specified problems, trivial visualisation and interactivity and so on, an unparalleled range of built-ins to perform extremely complex tasks, building up huge blobs of personal state that you're going to throw away entirely in an hour.