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What will "MIT Mystery Hunt :checkmark: " be called in MITMH24?
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resolved Jan 15
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(blank team name)
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Wouldn’t it be cool if this name was also a lousy haiku too?
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Pancakes and Trouble
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Minecraft But It's The MIT Mystery Hunt
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I don’t like this one
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'!'
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Setec Astronomy
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NullPointerException
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Team 1646
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Team 3734
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[title of team]
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Codex Tobedeterminus
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J. Pennis and the Gumshoe Gang
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Tetacetera
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The DONUT within the DONUT
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I Don't Understand the Question and I Won't Respond to It
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An Attempt Was Made
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(The team did not register, and will not be hunting in MH2024)
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All teams are listed at https://mitmh2024.com/register

The team name history so far -

https://www.puzzles.wiki/wiki/The_MIT_Mystery_Hunt_%E2%9C%85

I will add any team names suggested on comments as a new option.

The market will close when the coin is found, or 16 January 0000hrs TIMEMIT, whichever is earlier. If Other wins, this entire market will be N/A-ed.

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If Other wins, this entire market will be N/A-ed.

I can't think of a good reason to do that, and it messes with the way the bet payouts should work, I would recommend just resolving to Other (not suggesting you change it, but for future questions).

@jack That phrasing was intentional and works perfectly with the market's design from my end. Since the market was a guessing game of a known but secret event, all it needed to not be "Other"-ed was for the correct answer to be added as an answer before deadline.

So the line worked as intended. It's a consistent statement and was there from the start of the market. If there was a way to remove "Other" from the market, I would.

@Soni it is necessary for there to be an Other option for free response math to work. When answers are created, they are split out of Other. It normally means "any answer that isn't already added". Using it this way works sort of but also sort of breaks the logic behind Other. For example, a malicious trader could spam 100 answers and prevent anyone else from adding further answers, therefore guaranteeing that the right answer, if not already present, can't be added. If you use Other the normal way, that doesn't change anything, anyone who bet on Other still gets paid out as they expect. But with the way you use it here, that means that they lose all future guesses.

Again, I'm not saying you should change anything about this market, you definitely should not since that line was there since the beginning. I'm just informing you that it doesn't really make sense to do it that way from the way market mechanics work.