Brown Puzzlehunt 2023
| Brown Puzzlehunt | |
|---|---|
 The logo for BPH | |
| No. of Registered Teams | 237 |
| Winning Team | The ‘zzlers and The Geese Geese |
| No. of Rounds | 4 |
| No. of Puzzles (Feeders and Metas) | 28 |
| Timeframe and Location | |
| Location | Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island |
| Start Time | April 15 2023, 1:00 PM EDT |
| Official End Time | April 16 2023, 11:59 PM EDT |
| Links | |
| Hunt Link | Link |
| Wrapup Link | Link |
Brown Puzzlehunt is a hunt hosted by the students of Brown University, Rhode Island.
Unlock Order
A spreadsheet simulating the unlock order of the hunt can be found here.
Plot
The hunt initially starts with solvers getting a letter from the Blueno Resurrection Society, who planned on resurrecting Blueno, a mascot from Brown Puzzlehunt. However, that resurrection turned out to be a monster, and solvers were then approached by the BlueNope group to stop Blueno from destruction by defeating three aspects of Blueno -- Lamp, Bear, and Dear Blueno. Once that is done, teams on campus infiltrated the procession and snatched the Blueno icon to stop the resurrection for good.
Puzzles
The Blueno Resurrection Society
- Community Photos
- Built In A Day
- Work Together
- The ABC's of Puzzle Solving
- Misreader of the Free World
- Bring Back Blueno (Meta)
The Bear
- Butterfly Evolution Kit
- Find Oren
- Typos
- A Search in the Basement
- Written in Stone
- Who's On The Decks?
- The Bear (Meta)
The Lamp
- Day in the City
- Reptiles All The Way Down
- The Impossible
- Financial Crimes
- Remixers
- Ditto-less Impostors
- The Lamp (Meta)
Dear Blueno
- Word Processor
- Tic-Tac-Topology 101
- Musical Cryptogram
- Space Piracy
- Modern Tetris
- dearblueno.net (Meta)
Final
- Put Blueno Back Whence He Came (In-Person Runaround)
- The Final Procession (In-Person Runaround)
Reviews and Write Ups
From the Writing Team
- Thomas Gordon - Brown Puzzlehunt, and single points of failure - Accessibility, Americanisms, and the location-attendance question
From solvers
- Cute Mage - Spring 2023 Hunt Recap
- Dan Katz - Microsoft and Brown
- RockmanEX3 - Top 5 Puzzles I DID in Brown Puzzlehunt
