I'm out of town for the weekend for my annual bit of intellectual masochism at MIT Mystery Hunt, and so am writing this several days in advance. For those who are unaware of this bizarre practice, it's something in the range of 48-72 hours of tricky puzzles solved in pursuit of finding "the coin" and winning the spectacularly awful booby prize of your team having to write the next year's Hunt.
The puzzles generally do not bother with things like "instructions" or "any meaningful sign of what you're supposed to do," and instead you have to simply figure it out by discerning a pattern of some sort in whatever the puzzle is.
Here's an example from two years ago that ought be in the wheelhouse of some of you. The answer to a given puzzle is always a word or phrase. I'd offer a prize to anyone getting it right, but given that the solution is linked in the upper right-hand corner, I can only offer my congratulations for your extreme skill at tasks with functionally no utility whatsoever.
Back Monday with some actual Doctor Who writing. Scandalous.