Seeking Scotchy was among my very favorites of the weekend. Friends from two other teams agreed; one of them liked it so much he spent Monday morning at work finishing up the grids he hadn't done during the hunt proper.

I'd actually stumbled across your Seeking Syren puzzles on this blog last year sometime, but almost all of my teammates working on the puzzle hadn't. As you discovered, nobody wanted to read the instructions (TLDR?), which posed a major obstacle to actually solving the puzzles until finally everybody gave in and read them.

A large subset of us went directly from there into Prince of Kong, never knowing they were by the same author. Kudos for some great puzzles!