Left Out, Like Objections at a Wedding

Mystery Hunt was this weekend, this time themed after a theme park. Team Left Out (like any regrets after participating in this Hunt) ran an excellent and meaty hunt with really great puzzles and really interesting structure, won by Galactic Trendsetters well into Sunday afternoon. My team managed to be fifth and last to finish, just in under the wire, and it was pretty cool to see an endgame again, this year's was funny and heartwarming and cool. We weren't that far behind the winning team, they found the Coin just as we started on the runaround, but per Mystery Hunt usual, not winning is its own reward.

Some stand-out puzzles I worked on this year:

King's Ransom (rebuses and cutout clues)
Hackin' the Beanstalk (program fragments)
Horse (M:tG graph logic puzzle)
Crocodile (animals paired by clues)
Magic Railway (a "duck puzzle", except the ducks are wizards and it's more of a duck LARP)
Checkerboard (really creative source material for this puzzle)
Domino Maze (literally an expansion set of Domino Maze puzzles that's also a Mystery Hunt puzzle)
Zip Line (a zip file of zip codes)
The Trebuchet (boggle word searches with a twist)
Snack Bar (crossword construction from piles of snacks)
The Excelerator (giant spreadsheet of trigrams)
Breakfast Menu (menu items as heraldic descriptions)

(I wish I'd been early enough to figure out the mechanic for that last one, since it relates to something I learned about only recently. Was a fun puzzle.)

Edited to add: Also, two members of the writing team literally got married at Hunt kickoff. Which I suppose is one way to handle it if you have to write Hunt and plan a wedding in the same year.