| Hunt of The Year
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- Honorable mentions: QoDE Puzzle Hunt 2021, UMD Puzzle Hunt 2021 (Art Heist)
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| Short Hunt of The Year
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- Honorable mentions: CMU Puzzle Hunt Spring 2021 (Pirate Hunt), Inexact Puzzle Hunt 2021, Puzzle Rojak 2021
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| Best Presentation
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- Honorable mentions: Cardinality Puzzle Hunt 2021 (Huntinality), UMD Puzzle Hunt 2021 (Art Heist)
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| Most Innovative Structure
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| Best Direction
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- Honorable mentions: Cardinality Puzzle Hunt 2021 (Huntinality), QoDE Puzzle Hunt 2021
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| Best Metapuzzle
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- Honorable mentions:
- Getting Going (Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021) by Level 51 & Silph
- Microscope (Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021) by Rahul Sridhar, Lewis Chen, Colin Lu & Anderson Wang
- Random Hall (Mystery Hunt 2021) by Colin Lu, Jakob Weisblat, Jon Schneider, Robert Tunney & Anderson Wang
- Telescope (Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021) by Jon Schneider with additional contributions by Brian Chen, Colin Lu, Rahul Sridhar & Anderson Wang
- Tunnels (Mystery Hunt 2021) by Anderson Wang, Charles Tam, Curtis Chou, Jon Schneider & Lewis Chen
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| Best Feeder Puzzle
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- Re-Actions (Level 51 and Deusovi; Silph)
- The Meta Meta Meta ... Puzzle (Yannick Yao; Galactic)
- Circular Reasoning (Anderson Wang, Jakob Weisblat, Jon Schneider, Lewis Chen and Robert Tunney; Mystery Hunt) - Winner
- Divide & Conquer (Lewis Chen and Anderson Wang; Galactic)
- Nutraumatic (Jakob Weisblat and Rahul Sridhar; Mystery Hunt)
- Time of Your Life (Jacqui Fashimpaur; Teammate)
- Honorable Mention: 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001000000000000116 (Lewis Chen; Mystery Hunt)
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| Most Elegant Puzzle
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- Divide & Conquer (Lewis Chen and Anderson Wang; Galactic)
- Re-Actions (Level 51 and Deusovi; Silph)
- Minor Differences (Nick Mitchell; QoDE)
- Circular Reasoning (Anderson Wang, Jakob Weisblat, Jon Schneider, Lewis Chen and Robert Tunney; Mystery Hunt) - Winner
- Symbolic Table (Olga Vinogradova; Teammate)
- MacGregor House (Alan Huang, Colin Lu, and Rahul Sridhar; Mystery Hunt)
- The Bazaar (Herman Chau and Joanna Sands; Teammate)
- The Meta Meta Meta ... Puzzle (Yannick Yao; Galactic)
- Clusters (Charles Tam and Robert Tunney; Mystery Hunt)
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| Nuovo Award For Puzzling Innovation
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- Infinite Corridor (Jon Schneider; Mystery Hunt) - Winner
- Nutraumatic (Jakob Weisblat and Rahul Sridhar; Mystery Hunt)
- Wah-Street Bets (Benji Nguyen, Dan Simon, and Ryan Liu; Huntinality)
- All That's Left To Do Is Extract (Ivan Wang, Alex Irpan, and Rachel Wei; Teammate)
- Mystery Manor/Remember to Hydrate! (Ivan Wang, Rachel Wei, Christopher Reyes, Liam Thomas; Teammate)
Honorable Mentions:
- Divide & Conquer (Lewis Chen and Anderson Wang; Galactic)
- Bingo (Jakob Weisblat, Joanna Sands, and Rahul Sridhar; Mystery Hunt)
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| Best Introductory Puzzle
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- ✏️✉️➡️3️⃣5️⃣1️⃣➖6️⃣6️⃣6️⃣➖6️⃣6️⃣5️⃣5️⃣ (Anderson Wang, Ben Yang, Jakob Weisblat and Lewis Chen; Mystery Hunt)
- Hey, Can You Give Me A Hand With This Puzzle? (Colin Lu, Jakob Weisblat, Leon Zhou, Lillian McKinley; Mystery Hunt) - Winner
- If You Give… (mstang; Silph)
- Exactly (Evan Chen, Curtis Chou, Linus Strese, Anderson Wang and Jakob Weisblat; Mystery Hunt)
- Qatalog (Jonah Ostroff; QoDE)
- Don't Let Me Down (Anderson Wang; Mystery Hunt)
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| Funniest Puzzle
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- The Minimeta That Goes Wrong (Level 51; Silph)
- So You Think You Can Count (Charles Tam; Mystery Hunt)
- MacGregor House (Alan Huang, Colin Lu, and Rahul Sridhar; Mystery Hunt) - Winner
- Meta-Eval Times/Pin The Tail (Andrew He, Katie Dunn, Catherine Wu, and Patrick Xia; Teammate)
- Objection! (Alex Irpan and Ivan Wang; Teammate)
Honorable Mentions:
- Six Feet Under (Level 51; Silph)
- Solving Pumpkin Patch with NO Given Pumpkins?! /Menagerial Problems (Brian Lee, Joanna Sands, Patrick Xia, Edgar Chen, Ivan Wang; Teammate)
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| Best Twist On A Classic Style
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- Dropcrypt (Colin Lu, Jon Schneider, Anderson Wang, Robert Tunney; Galactic) - Winner
- One Size Fits All (Jon Schneider; Mystery Hunt)
- Overdone (Level 51; Silph)
- Drop Tower (Jonathan; Puzzle Rojak)
- Re-Actions (Level 51 and Deusovi; Silph)
Honorable Mention: Haunted House (Zach; Inexact Puzzlehunt)
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| Best Word Puzzle
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- PClueRS (Chris Jones; Mystery Hunt)
- Dropcrypt (Colin Lu, Jon Schneider, Anderson Wang, Robert Tunney; Galactic)
- Bulletin Board (Curtis Liu, Darren Yin, Rajeev Nayak; Potluck)
- Re-Actions (Level 51 and Deusovi; Silph)
- Circular Reasoning (Anderson Wang, Jakob Weisblat, Jon Schneider, Lewis Chen, Robert Tunney; Mystery Hunt) - Winner
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| Best Logic Puzzle
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- Symbolic Table (Olga Vinogradova; Teammate)
- Ignorance (Jon Schneider, Brian Chen, Mitchell Lee, Xander Hughes; Mystery Hunt)
- Divide and Conquer (Lewis Chen, Anderson Wang; GPH) - Winner
- Poison Ivy (Scott Handelman & Jonah Ostroff, Adam Maresca; QoDE)
- RED SUS (lovemathboy, chaotic_iak; Silph)
- Fun With Sudoku (Josh Alman, Mitchell Lee; Mystery Hunt)
- STOP DOING LOGIC PUZZLES (Kevin Zhou/Kaz; CMU Fall)
- Chimera (lovemathboy; Silph)
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| Best Interactive Puzzle
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- Meta-Eval Times/Pin The Tail (Andrew He, Katie Dunn, Catherine Wu, and Patrick Xia; Teammate)
- Wah-Street Bets (Benji Nguyen, Dan Simon, and Ryan Liu; Huntinality)
- Beep Arcade (Herman Chau, David Hashe; Teammate)
- So You Think You Can Count (Charles Tam; Mystery Hunt)
- 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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| Best Non-Puzzle (At Least, Primarily) Contribution To The Community
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- Cypher House
- Noq (Michael Tang, Jenna H.)
- Meta Data (CJ Quines)
- The Projection Device (Mystery Hunt) - Winner
- Google Sheets Puzzle Tricks (Jonah Ostroff)
- Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later (CJ Quines)
- Character Witness (Level 51)
- Dropquote Solver (CJ Quines)
- Puzzlehunt.net (Betaveros)
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| Delayed Award For Making Puzzle Hunts Better
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(This was a non nominated special award)
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