Etch-A-Sketch Puzzle - Length: 6:24
The MIT Mystery Puzzle Hunt takes place every year on Martin Luther King, Jr. Weekend. Teams solve puzzles which lead them to more puzzles. The team that gets to the end first wins - which means that they get to write the puzzles for the next year.
My friend Francis Heaney was on the winning team in 2002, so he was on the hook for coming up with puzzles for the 2003 Mystery Puzzle Hunt.
In 2002, I was at a party, and did a quick sketch Francis on my Etch-A-Sketch. He was amused enough with my Etch-A-Sketch skills that he started using his brilliance (and I don't use that word lightly) to come up with a puzzle that would use this skill set.
This is the video that the puzzlers saw. Feel free to try to figure it out as well.
If you are really stuck, we found that if two people work the knobs, one on horizontal and one on vertical it is much easier to solve.
I may create new puzzles for my site based on this puzzle if I find people like to solve them.