Teammate Hunt 2021

Teammate Hunt 2021, titled Matt & Emma's Carnival Conundrum, was the second iteration of the Teammate Hunt, run by teammate, which ran in early October, 2021. The hunt has a carnival theme, with teams following Matt and Emma by solving various puzzles themed around carnival attractions.

However, once the first pair of metas was solved, Matt & Emma each found themselves in another dimension, where any mention of the existence of the other twin was lost. At this point, solvers could switch between two different versions of the site ("Matt" and "Emma"). Any mention of the other twin on the site (both in text and in pictures) disappeared. Here, a signature element of the hunt came into play:.

Plot
The story was conveyed mostly visually through art on the story page and the individual puzzle pages. A traveling carnival has arrived in town, and Matt and Emma were enjoying the carnival attractions, when they were eventually invited by the Magician to each enter a box to take part in a magic act (Magical and Entanglement metas).

Once they exited the boxes, however, they found themselves in a dark dimension, and were told that their twin sibling does not exist. Each of them solved puzzles in their own dimension, sometimes, and tried to find the Magician. Once both of them fought the Magician in their respective dimensions (The Mystical Plaza and The Sword Swallowers metas), and solved the finale Hall of Mirrors, Matt and Emma returned to their home dimension and finally reunited.

Structure
Matt & Emma's Carnival Conundrum was divided into two main rounds. The second round was further divided into the Matt and Emma sub-rounds ("dimensions").

Act I

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Act II (Matt side)

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Act II (Emma side)

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Finale

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