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From here, you can travel to the north, east, south or west. You might need to collect more wisdom before you are ready to go north.
A tuxedoed gentleman with a blank white face -- The Terrible Trivium -- greets you.
"Did you just say PUZZLES?" He pronounces the word like he just swallowed a slug. "Rearrange your priorities. I need all butterflies sorted from best to worst; I need a list of jets that don't contain themselves; and I need someone to train my GAN (by hand, of course -- it's artisanal)."
"Too tedious?!" The Terrible Trivium reads a Wikipedia text dump and then balks. "You should appreciate it. Tedium is the enemy of curiosity."
He grumbles for seven hours. "To get you away from puzzles faster, I'll offer two hints, usable anytime. To earn them, all you have to do is empty a bathtub with a spoon. Email me a video of you doing this to 2018caltechpuzzlehunt@gmail.com with 'TERRIBLE TRIVIUM' in the subject line."
You can spend a hint anytime to get help on any non-meta puzzle, in one of three kinds:
To ask for a hint, email 2018caltechpuzzlehunt@gmail.com with "HINT REQUEST" (and any additional info) as the subject line. In your email body, include your team name, the token, the puzzle name and the hint category. If you are asking for category 2, please tell us what you have done so far and include up to five clues you would like us to answer for you. If you are on the wrong track, we will give you hint 1 instead.
You do not need to ask for two puzzles at the same time. The second time you ask for a hint, simply refer to this task that you have already completed.
If you're on campus, you can swing by HQ and we're likely to give you a much bigger hint!