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A рuzzlehunt is a puzzle game where teams compete to solve a series of puzzles at a particular site, in multiple sites or via the internet. Groups of puzzles in a puzzle hunt are often connected by a metapuzzle, leading to answers which combine into a final set of solutions.

Puzzle Hunt Events

Some famous annual puzzlehunts are:

D.A.S.H. (Different Area Same Hunt) takes place on the same day in multiple cities around the world using ClueKeeper as the interface.^[1]

the MIT Mystery Hunt (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)^[2],

the Melbourne University Mathematics & Statistics Society (MUMS) puzzlehunt (Melbourne, Australia),

the Sydney University Maths Society (SUMS) puzzlehunt (Sydney, Australia),

the TMOU (Brno, Czech Republic)

the Microsoft Puzzle Hunt (Redmond, Washington, United States),

the Miami Herald's Tropic Hunt (Miami, Florida, USA),

the Washington Post's Post Hunt (Washington, DC, USA),

the Gen Con Puzzle Hunt (Indianapolis, Indiana, USA),

Mezzacotta (formerly the Canon Information Systems Research Australia Puzzle Competition) (here),

Galactic Puzzle Hunt, run over Pi Day weekend,

The Phish.net Quest puzzle sequence (summary here),

[https://greatpuzzlehunt.com The Great Puzzle Hunt] in Bellingham, WA every April

College puzzlehunts include the aforementioned MIT Mystery Hunt as well as:

PuzzleCrack (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

College Puzzle Challenge (Multiple Locations, North America), hosted by Microsoft as a recruiting event on college campuses.

Palantir's Puzzle Challenge, a recruiting event on multiple campuses hosted by Palantir Technologies

Google Games, a multi-part competition that usually includes logic puzzles, coding, trivia, and building challenges that utilize materials like LEGO bricks

APT Puzzle Tournament, a recruiting event on multiple campuses hosted by Applied Predictive Technologies

Puzzle Hunt, put on every semester by a student organization called PuzzleHuntCMU at Carnegie Mellon University's Pittsburgh, PA campus

Nova Quest, a campus-wide puzzlehunt organized by the Nova Quest student organization, taking place each spring at Villanova University

Puzzle Hunt, open to all students and organized by the Rice University IEEE student chapter

The VT Hunt, an annual puzzlehunt at Virginia Tech that involves both abstract puzzles and physical clues

Puzzlehunt, a puzzlehunt made annually by the Stanford University Mathematical Organization

Berkeley Mystery Hunt, a puzzlehunt at UC Berkeley made by The Campus League of Puzzlers

Sometimes, the prize for winning a puzzlehunt is to create the next one.

Related puzzle events

The Game (a puzzlehunt combined with a road rally)

Microsoft Puzzle Safari (Redmond, Washington)

Race In The City (an Amazing Race-style event in Toronto)

Puzzled Pint (a monthly puzzlehunt aimed at beginner to intermediate teams)

Prehistoric Puzzlehunt (an annual event at the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, NY) www.priweb.org/puzzlehunt

Mission Street Puzzles (San Francisco, California)

UNR Puzzle Hunt (A self-guided puzzle hunt on the University of Nevada Reno campus)

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=https://roomescapeartist.com/2017/09/18/cluekeeper-puzzle-hunt-app-review/|title=ClueKeeper, that puzzle hunt app [Review]|work=ClueKeeper Review|publisher=Room Escape Artist|accessdate=22 December 2017}}
2. ^{{Cite news|url=https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/can-you-stay-awake-for-50-hours-and-solve-150-puzzles/|title=Can You Stay Awake For 50 Hours And Solve 150 Puzzles?|last=Roeder|first=Oliver|date=2018-01-19|work=FiveThirtyEight|access-date=2018-01-19|language=en-US}}

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Puzzle Hunt Events

Related puzzle events

Puzzle Hunt Event Calendars

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