Mate

Not to be confused with Matey.

MATE in The Wiki Camp 2
MATEWyrmAdmiral-BoötesEyeConjuri
Universe	MIT
Availability	Downloadable
Team	MATE: ACRONYM Wyrm: Host Admiral-Bootes: Epic Evil Eye: Damn seal Conjuri: The Ultimate Heist Crew
Final Smash	An unsolvable sudoku

Mate (stylized in all caps) was a playable character in The Wiki Camp 2. They were announced as a DLC fighter on January 13, 2023 to coincide with the 2023 MIT Mystery Hunt. In their home series, Mate is an artificial intelligence created by teammate that can create an unlimited amount of puzzles and assist solvers in solving them, by offering hints for specific puzzles, as well as giving out tools for various encoding methods, including Braille, Morse code, Pigpen, A1Z26, and international maritime signal flags. Mate joined The Wiki Camp 2 because they saw that there was an unsolvable sudoku on the wiki, and wanted to fix it.

Accompanying Mate are four alternate costumes in the form of Wyrm, Admiral-Boötes, Eye and Conjuri, all of whom were rejected AIs from the Mystery Hunt.

Overview

Strengths

Mate is able to automatically generate puzzles on command 24/7, with the help of their AI friends. Mate's puzzles in particular are claimed to be very fun and solver-friendly, which is why they were the AI chosen for teammate's MIT Mystery Hunt. If solvers are stuck on a puzzle, Mate is able to offer hints to make the solving process easier and nudge solvers in the right direction. The Mate AI can be used to give users an infinitely expansive puzzle-hunting experience, and is able to help puzzlehunt writers make their own hunts.

Weaknessess

Despite being classified as a "thing", Mate has no recorded weaknesses, as they were built to be the perfect puzzle-writing AI. Even when Mate makes a mistake in writing a puzzle, it is fixed almost instantly.

Story in MIT Mystery Hunt 2023

Error message seen by teams after teammate cancelled Mystery Hunt

Mate was introduced in the kickoff livestream as the sole writer for 2023's MIT Mystery Hunt. Mate's Puzzlehunt was the Museum of Interesting Things, with rounds themed around an atrium, science, natural history, art, and world history. Eventually, Mate started to glitch out and experience unexpected loading issues, which teams took advantage of as they broke into the Puzzle Factory, where they discovered an unfinished, glitchy museum round called the Hall of Innovation. Also in the factory, teams found old discarded dumpster drives containing data for rejected AIs that were built before Mate. Teams started a reactivation process on these rejected AIs so that they could help Mate run the Mystery Hunt, but teammate caught wind of this and decided to shut down the factory and cancel the Hunt to prevent the AIs from writing weird, experimental puzzles.

However, with the help of Wyrm, teams were able to power the factory back on. The AIs each turned on one by one and wrote their own rounds, and after solving each one, teams were able to install feature requests for each of the AIs to help them write better puzzles. Mate was the last AI to be restored, and together all the AIs were able to revive Mystery Hunt. After the hunt had ended, all AIs unanimously decided to take a vacation.

Story in The Wiki Camp 2

Upon downloading the MATE DLC, players will have the ability to play all previous challenges as Mate.

Challenge 1: Competitors

• Mate signs up for The Wiki Camp 2 and makes a competitor page, thinking the competition would be a nice way to spend time while on vacation.
  • Mate publishes their thoughts on other contestants on Mate/Opinions

Challenge 2: Teams

• Mate has trouble trying to find the right team to join.
  • You can see how that went on Mate/Teams

Challenge 3: Edit War

• Mate puts their own Classic Mode routes on the Edit War.
  • You can see them on Mate/Classic Mode

Intermission

• Mate awaits their results
  • In the meantime, they encounter a troublesome seal on Mate/This puzzle 👇 just told a lie

Challenge 4: Things

• The things challenge begins.
  • Mate wants to help you finally solve the unsolvable sudoku from the Edit War on Mate/An unsolvable sudoku

List of Puzzles

A full list of puzzles that come with the MATE DLC.

Puzzle	Solves
Opinions	8
Teams	3
Classic Mode	5
This puzzle 👇 just told a lie	4
[Meta pt. 1] An unsolvable sudoku	3
[Meta pt. 2] The Mirror World

Leaderboard

Users who have the most okinberries from solving puzzles. Users with moreberries have completed every puzzle, including An unsolvable sudoku.
(Note: As of January 30th, Okinberries are no longer obtainable, but you can still solve the puzzles yourself unspoiled!)

Rank	User	Okinberries	Finish time (ET)
1	Slug		Jan 19, 08:29
2	CAKO		Jan 19, 23:01
3	Cake. Yum yum!		Jan 20, 02:50
4	Jocobo
5	QWillow
6	MemoryBones
7	LegendFinder
8	Gsn1vy
9	Scar

Gallery

The Wiki Camp 2

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  Render by GopyXP

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  The Ultimate Heist Crew interview photo

Mystery Hunt 2023

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  MATE with Wyrm, Admiral-Boötes, Eye and Conjuri

Icons (MH2023)

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Experiment Reports (MH2023)

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  Experiment report for MATE

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  Experiment report for Wyrm

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  Experiment report for Eye

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  Experiment report for Conjuri

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  Experiment report for Admiral-Boötes

Trivia

• MATE finds jazz music very soothing.
• Because MATE is an AI, they don't need to do things that humans need to live, such as breathing and eating.
• When you solve a puzzle, you are unearthing the solution.
• Wyrm is the only AI that enjoys bathing. The rest don't like getting wet.
• Admiral-Boötes and Conjuri are the only AIs that wear clothing, both sporting hats.
• Eye is very good at locksmithing.
• The Puzzle Factory contains many items, artifacts, substances, trinkets, gadgets, tools, goods, gear, and thingamajigs.
• A synonym for coping is seething.

See also

• The Museum of Interesting Things, MATE's original puzzle hunt
• The Puzzle Factory, the factory where all the puzzles are made. Contains the drives for Wyrm, Admiral-Boötes, Eye, and Conjuri

References