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* '''[[Mystery Hunt 2021\Infinite Corridor|Infinite Corridor (Mystery Hunt 2021)]] by Jon Schneider'''
* '''[[Mystery Hunt 2021/Infinite Corridor|Infinite Corridor (Mystery Hunt 2021)]]''' by Jon Schneider
** ''[[Puzzle Potluck 4\Bulletin Board|Bulletin Board (Puzzle Potluck 4]]'' by Curtis Liu, Darren Yin & Rajeev Nayak
** ''[[Puzzle Potluck 4/Bulletin Board|Bulletin Board (Puzzle Potluck 4]]'' by Curtis Liu, Darren Yin & Rajeev Nayak
** ''[[QoDE Puzzle Hunt 2021\Firefly & Mr. Freeze|Firefly & Mr. Freeze (QoDE Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by Scott Handelman & Jonah Ostroff (ft. Adam Maresca)
** ''[[QoDE Puzzle Hunt 2021/Firefly & Mr. Freeze|Firefly & Mr. Freeze (QoDE Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by Scott Handelman & Jonah Ostroff (ft. Adam Maresca)
** ''[[Teammate Hunt 2021\Hall of Mirrors|Hall of Mirrors (Teammate Hunt 2021)]]'' by Jacqui Fashimpaur, Liam Thomas & Samuel Yeom
** ''[[Teammate Hunt 2021/Hall of Mirrors|Hall of Mirrors (Teammate Hunt 2021)]]'' by Jacqui Fashimpaur, Liam Thomas & Samuel Yeom
** ''[[Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021\Periscope|Periscope (Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by Lewis Chen, Jon Schneider & Anderson Wang
** ''[[Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021/Periscope|Periscope (Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by Lewis Chen, Jon Schneider & Anderson Wang
: ''Honorable mentions:''
: ''Honorable mentions:''
:** ''[[Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021\Getting Going|Getting Going (Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by Level 51 & Silph
:** ''[[Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021/Getting Going|Getting Going (Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by Level 51
:** ''[[Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021\Microscope|Microscope (Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by Rahul Sridhar, Lewis Chen, Colin Lu & Anderson Wang
:** ''[[Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021/Microscope|Microscope (Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by Rahul Sridhar, Lewis Chen, Colin Lu & Anderson Wang
:** ''[[Mystery Hunt 2021\Random Hall|Random Hall (Mystery Hunt 2021)]]'' by Colin Lu, Jakob Weisblat, Jon Schneider, Robert Tunney & Anderson Wang
:** ''[[Mystery Hunt 2021/Random Hall|Random Hall (Mystery Hunt 2021)]]'' by Colin Lu, Jakob Weisblat, Jon Schneider, Robert Tunney & Anderson Wang
:** ''[[Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021\Telescope|Telescope (Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by Jon Schneider with additional contributions by Brian Chen, Colin Lu, Rahul Sridhar & Anderson Wang
:** ''[[Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021/Telescope|Telescope (Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by Jon Schneider with additional contributions by Brian Chen, Colin Lu, Rahul Sridhar & Anderson Wang
:** ''[[Mystery Hunt 2021\Tunnels|Tunnels (Mystery Hunt 2021)]]'' by Anderson Wang, Charles Tam, Curtis Chou, Jon Schneider & Lewis Chen
:** ''[[Mystery Hunt 2021/Tunnels|Tunnels (Mystery Hunt 2021)]]'' by Anderson Wang, Charles Tam, Curtis Chou, Jon Schneider & Lewis Chen


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* '''[[Mystery Hunt 2021/Circular Reasoning|Circular Reasoning (MIT Mystery Hunt 2021)]]''' by Anderson Wang, Jakob Weisblat, Jon Schneider, Lewis Chen & Robert Tunney
* Re-Actions (Level 51 and Deusovi; Silph)
** ''[[Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021/Divide and Conquer|Divide and Conquer (Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by Lewis Chen & Anderson Wang
* The Meta Meta Meta ... Puzzle (Yannick Yao; Galactic)
** ''[[Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021/The Meta Meta Meta ... Puzzle|The Meta Meta Meta ... Puzzle (Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by Yannick Yao
* '''Circular Reasoning (Anderson Wang, Jakob Weisblat, Jon Schneider, Lewis Chen and Robert Tunney; Mystery Hunt) - Winner'''
** ''[[Mystery Hunt 2021/Nutraumatic|Nutraumatic (MIT Mystery Hunt 2021)]]'' by Jakob Weisblat & Rahul Sridhar
* Divide & Conquer (Lewis Chen and Anderson Wang; Galactic)
** ''[[Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021/Re-Actions|Re-Actions (Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by Level 51 & Deusovi
* Nutraumatic (Jakob Weisblat and Rahul Sridhar; Mystery Hunt)
* Time of Your Life (Jacqui Fashimpaur; Teammate)
** ''[[Teammate Hunt 2021/Time of Your Life|Time of Your Life (Teammate Hunt 2021)]]'' by Jacqui Fashimpaur
* Honorable Mention: 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001000000000000116 (Lewis Chen; Mystery Hunt)
: ''Honorable mention: [[Mystery Hunt 2021/1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001000000000000116|1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001000000000000116 (MIT Mystery Hunt 2021)]] by Lewis Chen''


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* '''[[Mystery Hunt 2021/Circular Reasoning|Circular Reasoning (MIT Mystery Hunt 2021)]]''' by Anderson Wang, Jakob Weisblat, Jon Schneider, Lewis Chen & Robert Tunney
* Divide & Conquer (Lewis Chen and Anderson Wang; Galactic)
** ''[[Teammate Hunt 2021/The Bazaar|The Bazaar (Teammate Hunt 2021)]]'' by Herman Chau & Joanna Sands
* Re-Actions (Level 51 and Deusovi; Silph)
** ''[[Mystery Hunt 2021/Clusters|Clusters (MIT Mystery Hunt 2021)]]'' by Charles Tam & Robert Tunney
* Minor Differences (Nick Mitchell; QoDE)
** ''[[Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021/Divide and Conquer|Divide and Conquer (Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by Lewis Chen & Anderson Wang
* '''Circular Reasoning (Anderson Wang, Jakob Weisblat, Jon Schneider, Lewis Chen and Robert Tunney; Mystery Hunt) - Winner'''
** ''[[Mystery Hunt 2021/MacGregor House|MacGregor House (MIT Mystery Hunt 2021)]]'' by Alan Huang, Colin Lu & Rahul Sridhar
* Symbolic Table (Olga Vinogradova; Teammate)
** ''[[Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021/The Meta Meta Meta ... Puzzle|The Meta Meta Meta ... Puzzle (Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by Yannick Yao
* MacGregor House (Alan Huang, Colin Lu, and Rahul Sridhar; Mystery Hunt)
** ''[[QoDE Puzzle Hunt 2021/Minor Differences|Minor Differences (QoDE Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by Nick Mitchell
* The Bazaar (Herman Chau and Joanna Sands; Teammate)
** ''[[Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021/Re-Actions|Re-Actions (Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by Level 51 & Deusovi
* The Meta Meta Meta ... Puzzle (Yannick Yao; Galactic)
** ''[[Teammate Hunt 2021/Symbolic Table|Symbolic Table (Teammate Hunt 2021)]]'' by Olga Vinogradova
* Clusters (Charles Tam and Robert Tunney; Mystery Hunt)


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* '''Infinite Corridor (Jon Schneider; Mystery Hunt) - Winner'''
* '''[[Mystery Hunt 2021/Infinite Corridor|Infinite Corridor (MIT Mystery Hunt 2021)]]''' by Jon Schneider
** ''[[Teammate Hunt 2021/All That's Left To Do Is Extract|All That's Left To Do Is Extract (Teammate Hunt 2021)]]'' by Ivan Wang, Alex Irpan & Rachel Wei
* Nutraumatic (Jakob Weisblat and Rahul Sridhar; Mystery Hunt)
** ''[[Teammate Hunt 2021/Mystery Manor|Mystery Manor (Teammate Hunt 2021)]] & [[Teammate Hunt 2021/Remember to Hydrate!|Remember to Hydrate! (Teammate Hunt 2021)]]'' by Ivan Wang, Rachel Wei, Christopher Reyes & Liam Thomas
* Wah-Street Bets (Benji Nguyen, Dan Simon, and Ryan Liu; Huntinality)
** ''[[Mystery Hunt 2021/Nutraumatic|Nutraumatic (MIT Mystery Hunt 2021)]] ''by Jakob Weisblat & Rahul Sridhar
* All That's Left To Do Is Extract (Ivan Wang, Alex Irpan, and Rachel Wei; Teammate)
** ''[[Cardinality Puzzle Hunt 2021/Wah-Street Bets|Wah-Street Bets (Cardinality Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by Benji Nguyen, Dan Simon & Ryan Liu
* Mystery Manor/Remember to Hydrate! (Ivan Wang, Rachel Wei, Christopher Reyes, Liam Thomas; Teammate)


Honorable Mentions:
: ''Honorable mentions:''
:** ''[[Mystery Hunt 2021/Bingo|Bingo (MIT Mystery Hunt 2021)]] by Jakob Weisblat, Joanna Sands & Rahul Sridhar''
* Divide & Conquer (Lewis Chen and Anderson Wang; Galactic)
:** ''[[Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021/Divide and Conquer|Divide and Conquer (Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021)]] by Lewis Chen & Anderson Wang''
* Bingo (Jakob Weisblat, Joanna Sands, and Rahul Sridhar; Mystery Hunt)


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* '''[[Mystery Hunt 2021/Hey, Can You Give Me A Hand With This Puzzle?|Hey, Can You Give Me A Hand With This Puzzle? (MIT Mystery Hunt 2021)]]''' by Colin Lu, Jakob Weisblat, Leon Zhou & Lillian McKinley
* ✏️✉️➡️3️⃣5️⃣1️⃣➖6️⃣6️⃣6️⃣➖6️⃣6️⃣5️⃣5️⃣ (Anderson Wang, Ben Yang, Jakob Weisblat and Lewis Chen; Mystery Hunt)
** ''[[Mystery Hunt 2021/✏️✉️➡️3️⃣5️⃣1️⃣➖6️⃣6️⃣6️⃣➖6️⃣6️⃣5️⃣5️⃣|✏️✉️➡️3️⃣5️⃣1️⃣➖6️⃣6️⃣6️⃣➖6️⃣6️⃣5️⃣5️⃣ (MIT Mystery Hunt 2021)]]'' by Anderson Wang, Ben Yang, Jakob Weisblat & Lewis Chen
* '''Hey, Can You Give Me A Hand With This Puzzle? (Colin Lu, Jakob Weisblat, Leon Zhou, Lillian McKinley; Mystery Hunt) - Winner'''
** ''[[Mystery Hunt 2021/Don't Let Me Down|Don't Let Me Down (MIT Mystery Hunt 2021)]]'' by Anderson Wang
* If You Give… (mstang; Silph)
* Exactly (Evan Chen, Curtis Chou, Linus Strese, Anderson Wang and Jakob Weisblat; Mystery Hunt)
** ''[[Mystery Hunt 2021/Exactly|Exactly (MIT Mystery Hunt 2021)]]'' by Evan Chen, Curtis Chou, Linus Strese, Anderson Wang & Jakob Weisblat
** ''[[Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021/If You Give...|If You Give... (Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by mstang
* Qatalog (Jonah Ostroff; QoDE)
** ''[[QoDE Puzzle Hunt 2021/Qatalog|Qatalog (QoDE Puzzle Hunt 2021)]] by Jonah Ostroff
* Don't Let Me Down (Anderson Wang; Mystery Hunt)


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* '''[[Mystery Hunt 2021/MacGregor House|MacGregor House (MIT Mystery Hunt 2021)]]''' by Alan Huang, Colin Lu & Rahul Sridhar
* The Minimeta That Goes Wrong (Level 51; Silph)
** ''[[Teammate Hunt 2021/Meta-Eval Times|Meta-Eval Times (Teammate Hunt 2021)]] & [[Teammate Hunt 2021/Pin The Tail|Pin The Tail (Teammate Hunt 2021)]]'' by Andrew He, Katie Dunn, Catherine Wu & Patrick Xia
* So You Think You Can Count (Charles Tam; Mystery Hunt)
** ''[[Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021/The Minimeta That Goes Wrong|The Minimeta That Goes Wrong (Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by Level 51
* '''MacGregor House (Alan Huang, Colin Lu, and Rahul Sridhar; Mystery Hunt) - Winner'''
** ''[[Teammate Hunt 2021/Objection!|Objection! (Teammate Hunt 2021)]]'' by Alex Irpan & Ivan Wang
* Meta-Eval Times/Pin The Tail (Andrew He, Katie Dunn, Catherine Wu, and Patrick Xia; Teammate)
** ''[[Mystery Hunt 2021/So You Think You Can Count|So You Think You Can Count (MIT Mystery Hunt 2021)]]'' by Charles Ta
* Objection! (Alex Irpan and Ivan Wang; Teammate)


Honorable Mentions:
: ''Honorable mentions:''
* Six Feet Under (Level 51; Silph)
:** ''[[Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021/Six Feet Under|Six Feet Under (Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021)]] by Level 51''
* Solving Pumpkin Patch with NO Given Pumpkins?! /Menagerial Problems (Brian Lee, Joanna Sands, Patrick Xia, Edgar Chen, Ivan Wang; Teammate)
:** ''[[Teammate Hunt 2021/Solving Pumpkin Patch with NO Given Pumpkins?!|Solving Pumpkin Patch with NO Given Pumpkins?! (Teammate Hunt 2021)]] & [[Teammate Hunt 2021/Menagerial Problems|Menagerial Problems (Teammate Hunt 2021)]] by Brian Lee, Joanna Sands, Patrick Xia, Edgar Chen & Ivan Wang''


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* '''Dropcrypt (Colin Lu, Jon Schneider, Anderson Wang, Robert Tunney; Galactic) - Winner'''
* '''[[Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021/Dropcrypt|Dropcrypt (Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by Colin Lu, Jon Schneider, Anderson Wang & Robert Tunney'''
** ''[[Puzzle Rojak 2021/Drop Tower|Drop Tower (Puzzle Rojak 2021)]]'' by Jonathan
* One Size Fits All (Jon Schneider; Mystery Hunt)
** ''[[Mystery Hunt 2021/One Size Fits All|One Size Fits All (MIT Mystery Hunt 2021)]]'' by Jon Schneider
* Overdone (Level 51; Silph)
** ''[[Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021/Overdone|Overdone (Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by Level 51
* Drop Tower (Jonathan; Puzzle Rojak)
* Re-Actions (Level 51 and Deusovi; Silph)
** ''[[Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021/Re-Actions|Re-Actions (Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by Level 51 and Deusovi
''Honorable mention: [[Inexact Puzzle Hunt 2021\Haunted House|Haunted House (Inexact Puzzle Hunt 2021)]] by Zach''

Honorable Mention: Haunted House (Zach; Inexact Puzzlehunt)


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* '''[[Mystery Hunt 2021/Circular Reasoning (MIT Mystery Hunt 2021)]]''' by Anderson Wang, Jakob Weisblat, Jon Schneider, Lewis Chen & Robert Tunney
* PClueRS (Chris Jones; Mystery Hunt)
** ''[[Puzzle Potluck 4/Bulletin Board|Bulletin Board (Puzzle Potluck 4)]]'' by Curtis Liu, Darren Yin & Rajeev Nayak
* Dropcrypt (Colin Lu, Jon Schneider, Anderson Wang, Robert Tunney; Galactic)
** ''[[Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021/Dropcrypt|Dropcrypt (Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by Colin Lu, Jon Schneider, Anderson Wang & Robert Tunney
* Bulletin Board (Curtis Liu, Darren Yin, Rajeev Nayak; Potluck)
** ''[[Mystery Hunt 2021/PClueRS|PClueRS (MIT Mystery Hunt 2021)]]'' by Chris Jones
* Re-Actions (Level 51 and Deusovi; Silph)
** ''[[Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021/Re-Actions|Re-Actions (Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by Level 51 & Deusovi
* '''Circular Reasoning (Anderson Wang, Jakob Weisblat, Jon Schneider, Lewis Chen, Robert Tunney; Mystery Hunt) - Winner'''


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* '''[[Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021/Divide and Conquer|Divide and Conquer (Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]''' by Lewis Chen, Anderson Wang
* Symbolic Table (Olga Vinogradova; Teammate)
** ''[[Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021/Chimera|Chimera (Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by lovemathboy
* Ignorance (Jon Schneider, Brian Chen, Mitchell Lee, Xander Hughes; Mystery Hunt)
** ''[[Mystery Hunt 2021/Fun With Sudoku|Fun With Sudoku (MIT Mystery Hunt 2021)]]'' by Josh Alman & Mitchell Lee
* '''Divide and Conquer (Lewis Chen, Anderson Wang; GPH) - Winner'''
** ''[[Mystery Hunt 2021/Ignorance|Ignorance (MIT Mystery Hunt 2021)]]'' by Jon Schneider, Brian Chen, Mitchell Lee & Xander Hughes
* Poison Ivy (Scott Handelman & Jonah Ostroff, Adam Maresca; QoDE)
** ''[[QoDE Puzzle Hunt 2021/Poison Ivy|Poison Ivy (QoDE Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by Scott Handelman, Jonah Ostroff & Adam Maresca
* RED SUS (lovemathboy, chaotic_iak; Silph)
** ''[[Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021/RED SUS|RED SUS (Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by lovemathboy & chaotic_iak
* Fun With Sudoku (Josh Alman, Mitchell Lee; Mystery Hunt)
* STOP DOING LOGIC PUZZLES (Kevin Zhou/Kaz; CMU Fall)
** ''[[CMU Puzzle Hunt Fall 2021/STOP DOING LOGIC PUZZLES|STOP DOING LOGIC PUZZLES (CMU Puzzle Hunt Fall 2021)]]'' by Kevin Zhou/Kaz
** ''[[Teammate Hunt 2021/Symbolic Table|Symbolic Table (Teammate Hunt 2021)]]'' by Olga Vinogradova
* Chimera (lovemathboy; Silph)


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* '''[[Teammate Hunt 2021/Mystery Manor|Mystery Manor (Teammate Hunt 2021)]] & [[Teammate Hunt 2021/Remember to Hydrate!|Remember to Hydrate! (Teammate Hunt 2021)]]''' by Ivan Wang, Rachel Wei, Christopher Reyes & Liam Thomas

** ''[[Teammate Hunt 2021/Beep Arcade|Beep Arcade (Teammate Hunt 2021)]]'' by Herman Chau & David Hashe
* Meta-Eval Times/Pin The Tail (Andrew He, Katie Dunn, Catherine Wu, and Patrick Xia; Teammate)
** ''[[Teammate Hunt 2021/Meta-Eval Times|Meta-Eval Times (Teammate Hunt 2021)]] & [[Teammate Hunt 2021/Pin The Tail|Pin The Tail (Teammate Hunt 2021)]]'' by Andrew He, Katie Dunn, Catherine Wu & Patrick Xia
* Wah-Street Bets (Benji Nguyen, Dan Simon, and Ryan Liu; Huntinality)
** ''[[Mystery Hunt 2021/So You Think You Can Count|So You Think You Can Count (MIT Mystery Hunt 2021)]]'' by Charles Tam
* Beep Arcade (Herman Chau, David Hashe; Teammate)
** ''[[Cardinality Puzzle Hunt 2021/Wah-Street Bets|Wah-Street Bets (Cardinality Puzzle Hunt 2021)]]'' by Benji Nguyen, Dan Simon & Ryan Liu)
* So You Think You Can Count (Charles Tam; Mystery Hunt)
: ''Honorable mention: [[Mystery Hunt 2021/Nutraumatic|Nutraumatic (MIT Mystery Hunt 2021)]] by Jakob Weisblat and Rahul Sridhar''
* '''Mystery Manor/Remember to Hydrate! (Ivan Wang, Rachel Wei, Christopher Reyes, Liam Thomas; Teammate) - Winner'''

Honorable Mention: Nutraumatic (Jakob Weisblat and Rahul Sridhar; Mystery Hunt)


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* '''The Projection Device (MIT Mystery Hunt 2021)'''
* Cypher House
** Character Witness by Level 51
* Noq (Michael Tang, Jenna H.)
** Cypher House
* Meta Data (CJ Quines)
** Dropquote Solver by CJ Quines
* '''The Projection Device (Mystery Hunt) - Winner'''
* Google Sheets Puzzle Tricks (Jonah Ostroff)
** Google Sheets Puzzle Tricks by Jonah Ostroff
* Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later (CJ Quines)
** Meta Data by CJ Quines
** Noq by Michael Tang & Jenna H.
* Character Witness (Level 51)
** Puzzlehunt.net by Betaveros
* Dropquote Solver (CJ Quines)
** Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later by CJ Quines
* Puzzlehunt.net (Betaveros)

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* '''gph site''' (This was a non nominated special award)

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Revision as of 07:57, 22 April 2022

The Bravo Awards were a Discord-based award ceremony, intended to celebrate all things puzzlehunt related in 2021.

All puzzles, hunts and creations released between MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 (inclusive) and before MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 were eligible for submission, and the ceremony was conducted by Junkmail on 13 January 2022 with an open-to-all voting process for finalists.

Awards

Winners in each category are listed first and highlighted with boldface text. Remaining nominees (including some honorable mentions) are given in alphabetical order.

Hunt of The Year
Honorable mentions: QoDE Puzzle Hunt 2021, UMD Puzzle Hunt 2021 (Art Heist)
Short Hunt of The Year
Honorable mentions: CMU Puzzle Hunt Spring 2021 (Pirate Hunt), Inexact Puzzle Hunt 2021, Puzzle Rojak 2021
Best Presentation
Honorable mentions: Cardinality Puzzle Hunt 2021 (Huntinality), UMD Puzzle Hunt 2021 (Art Heist)
Most Innovative Structure
Best Direction
Honorable mentions: Cardinality Puzzle Hunt 2021 (Huntinality), QoDE Puzzle Hunt 2021
Best Metapuzzle
Honorable mentions:
Best Feeder Puzzle
Honorable mention: 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001000000000000116 (MIT Mystery Hunt 2021) by Lewis Chen
Most Elegant Puzzle
Nuovo Award For Puzzling Innovation
Honorable mentions:
Best Introductory Puzzle
Funniest Puzzle
Honorable mentions:
Best Twist On A Classic Style

Honorable mention: Haunted House (Inexact Puzzle Hunt 2021) by Zach

Best Word Puzzle
Best Logic Puzzle
Best Interactive Puzzle
Honorable mention: Nutraumatic (MIT Mystery Hunt 2021) by Jakob Weisblat and Rahul Sridhar
Best Non-Puzzle (At Least, Primarily) Contribution To The Community
  • The Projection Device (MIT Mystery Hunt 2021)
    • Character Witness by Level 51
    • Cypher House
    • Dropquote Solver by CJ Quines
    • Google Sheets Puzzle Tricks by Jonah Ostroff
    • Meta Data by CJ Quines
    • Noq by Michael Tang & Jenna H.
    • Puzzlehunt.net by Betaveros
    • Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later by CJ Quines
Delayed Award For Making Puzzle Hunts Better
  • gph site (This was a non nominated special award)


See Also