Puzzle hunts are a fun way to solve puzzles together with friends! The goal is to solve several puzzles that culminate in a final challenge, called a 'metapuzzle'. After a presentation teaching common solving strategies, you'll have the opportunity to work on a small puzzle hunt with others. You don't need any specialized puzzle-solving knowledge to participate.

Have you ever seen a crossword or sudoku puzzle and wondered how people make them? We'll teach you!

Learn how to play the game of Scrabble in a way that nets you more wins than ever! We'll start by learning strategy by playing against some of the bots, while learning about parallel plays, bingo tiles, board dynamics, and endgame. We'll then analyze two games between top players to see how the pros do it. We'll end by exploring Quackle and Zyzzyva, two fantastic resources for upping your Scrabble game.

Join us to create a personalized task management system to help you stay organized and on track! Learn about various task management techniques, software, and tactics. Using plain notebooks, washi tape, stickers, and pens, you will have the chance to design a unique journaling system fit for you. (: We have limited blank journals, so if you have your own, please bring it!

Want to learn more about how the Chinese romanization system works? Curious about how to pronounce Chinese surnames like Xu, Cai, or Qiu? Come to this class to gain a better understanding of how China developed the Hanyu Pinyin system and learn how to read romanized Chinese words. I will go over the basic tones as well as tricky initials and finals sounds.

Become a chocolatier and join us to learn all about how chocolate is made! Led by the MIT Lab for Chocolate Science (LCS), this unique experience will take you through the rich history, science, and modern techniques of chocolate production. You'll gain an appreciation for the diverse origins, quality, and manufacturing techniques of chocolate by tasting and comparing various types of chocolate.

Considering that the program theme this year is fireflies, it would be pretty thematic to do some firefly logic puzzles!

Learn how to solve pencil-and-paper logic puzzles! We'll be teaching the basic deductions for a puzzle type (likely Akari or Masyu) and working through many puzzles together. We'll also show you how to find more logic puzzles!

Want to learn more about how the Chinese romanization system works? Curious about how to pronounce Chinese surnames like Xu, Cai, or Qiu? Come to this class to gain a better understanding of how China developed the Hanyu Pinyin system and learn how to read romanized Chinese words. I will go over the basic tones as well as tricky initials and finals sounds.

so there's this island, and it's getting invaded, and we're the (supernatural) spirits that need to stop the invaders before the island gets destroyed (it's a cooperative board game)

Puzzle hunts are a fun way to solve puzzles together with friends! The goal is to solve several puzzles that culminate in a final challenge, called a 'metapuzzle'. After a presentation teaching common solving strategies, you'll have the opportunity to work on a small puzzle hunt with others. You don't need any specialized puzzle-solving knowledge to participate.

Learn how to build a Virtual Museum in Minecraft as you are taken on a tour through a recreation of MIT's East Campus dormitory.

Have you ever wondered how languages work? How do we put together sounds into words or words into sentences? Come and learn the basics of linguistics!

Minesweeper is a logic/puzzle game played on a grid, where the goal is to clear out all of the safe squares without hitting a mine. Come here to learn how to play, learn a few new tricks, or just have a good time playing Minesweeper! Open to both new and experienced players.

Play Mahjong with each other!

Have you done/do you enjoy Sudoku? Well here you can learn how to do other puzzles that use similar types of deductions, but with much different rules!

Puzzle hunts are a fun way to solve puzzles together with friends! The goal is to solve several puzzles that culminate in a final challenge, called a 'metapuzzle'. After a presentation teaching common solving strategies, you'll have the opportunity to work on a small puzzle hunt with others. You don't need any specialized puzzle-solving knowledge to participate.

Learn how to pronounce stuff and categorize the ways people pronounce stuff, and also read those strings of letters and other symbols that appear on wikipedia pages Also useful if you want to try making your own language at some point

Learn how to play Riichi Mahjong, which is like a combination of Rummy and Poker but with tiles instead of cards!

If you already know the rules of some logic puzzles, this class will teach some slightly more advanced techniques in those logic puzzles

Here we learn how to get every advancement in Minecraft.

Minesweeper is a logic/puzzle game played on a grid, where the goal is to clear out all of the safe squares without hitting a mine. Come here to learn how to play, learn a few new tricks, or just have a good time playing Minesweeper! Open to both new and experienced players. THIS IS A WALK-INS CLASS. You can join it any time you want on the day of Splash, no registration required!