{"id":5,"date":"2018-02-05T18:10:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T18:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptexhunt.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2018-02-11T09:50:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T14:50:00","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cryptexhunt.com\/wordpress\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the official website of the Cryptex Hunt!<\/p>\n<p>The Cryptex Hunt is a <strong>free<\/strong> puzzle hunt provided by Justin Nevins, the creator of the first <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptex.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cryptex\u00ae<\/a> Security Box.<\/p>\n<h2>Who?<\/h2>\n<p>The primary hunt creators and puzzle designers are Errol Elumir, Darren Miller, and Dan Egnor. Technical assistance has been provided by David Lewis and Cryptex wrangling\/training and Cryptex technical consulting provided by Justin Nevins (as well as design and creation of the prizes). More information can be found on our <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptexhunt.com\/wordpress\/bios\/\">Bios<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>Several other people contributed to this hunt as game testers, creatives, and consultants: Julia Nevins, Manda Whitney, Alex Wai, Margaux Yiu, Michael Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Debbie Ridpath Ohi, Lizette Tanner, Kari Maaren, Mags Storey, and Tyler Goen. To them we owe huge thanks!<\/p>\n<h2>Why?<\/h2>\n<p>The idea came about while Justin was chatting with some of his puzzling friends and someone asked if there was a \u201cCryptex Day\u201d holiday, to which he replied \u201cSure\u2026 it\u2019s March 1st!\u201d (the day he created the first Cryptex back in 2004).<\/p>\n<p>It became a running joke and Justin declared March 1st to be \u201cInternational Cryptex Day.\u201d Then Errol said \u201cYou should make an online Puzzle Hunt for International Cryptex Day!\u201d and when Justin said he thought that would be cool, Errol responded \u201cI\u2019LL DO IT!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And then Errol took over.<\/p>\n<p>He gathered bunch of really talented people and somehow managed to get them to volunteer their time and together, resulting in what we hope is a very unique and fun puzzle hunt.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the official website of the Cryptex Hunt! The Cryptex Hunt is a free puzzle hunt provided by Justin Nevins, the creator of the first Cryptex\u00ae Security Box. Who? The primary hunt creators and puzzle designers are Errol Elumir, Darren Miller, and Dan Egnor. Technical assistance has been provided by David Lewis and Cryptex wrangling\/training and Cryptex technical consulting provided by Justin Nevins (as well as design and creation of the prizes). More information&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptexhunt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptexhunt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptexhunt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptexhunt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptexhunt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cryptexhunt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/cryptexhunt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptexhunt.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}