Cardinality
Cardinality is a team that primarily participates in MIT Mystery Hunts. The team is based around the San Francisco Bay Area and has a prominent contingent from Stanford University. The team was started in 2020, and has placed top 10 in two Mystery Hunts since.
A subset of Cardinality runs the annual hunt Huntinality, which started in 2021.
History[edit | edit source]
Cardinality was founded in 2010 by a group of Stanford undergraduates, participating together in local hunts like DASH and Palantir. The team soon grew and included people from the general Bay Area. The team takes its name from the Stanford Cardinals and Cardinality from mathematics. Since its inception, the team has been quickly growing in numbers and improving in placements throughout hunts. Starting in 2020, Cardinality hunted as its own team in the MIT Mystery Hunt, having previously hunted with ✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈ and Palindrome in the past.
Other team names used by Cardinality include Positive Mental Attitude / PMA, Five Guys, and Team Benji.[1]
Mystery Hunt Performances[edit | edit source]
| Date | Hunt | Rank | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-01-14 | MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 | 6 | |
| 2021-01-15 | MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 | 9 | |
| 2020-01-17 | MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 | 22 |
Other hunt performances[edit | edit source]
| Date | Hunt | Rank | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-01 | Huntinality 3 | Host | |
| 2023-07-28 | Shardhunt | 4 | as Shardinality |
| 2023-06-02 | ABCDEFG | 3 | |
| 2023-05-06 | Microsoft Puzzlehunt 2023 | 1 | as i'm going to be out of country for 10 days starting tomorrow so i'll drop some terrible team name ideas here to get the pot going (don't use them): |
| 2022-10-08 | EC Puzzle Hunt 2022 | 17 | as Yardinality |
| 2022-10-08 | EC Puzzle Hunt 2022 | 21 | as Eternity Challenges of r/antimatterdimensions |
| 2022-10-08 | EC Puzzle Hunt 2022 | 28 | as Teddy Set Go |
| 2022-08-26 | Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2022 | 3 | as C[ardinality]s Get Degrees |
| 2022-08-26 | Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2022 | 22 | as Flashcardinality |
| 2022-06-18 | Huntinality 2022 | Host | |
| 2022-04-15 | Quantum Online Puzzle Hunt | 3 | as The Wholesome Dung Eaters |
| 2022-04-15 | Quantum Online Puzzle Hunt | 10 | as Quardinality |
| 2022-04-15 | Quantum Online Puzzle Hunt | 14 | as Ordinality |
| 2021-12-18 | Puzzle Rojak 1 | 4 | as Chardinality |
| 2021-12-18 | Puzzle Rojak 1 | 6 | as Scoobinality Snack |
| 2021-12-18 | Puzzle Rojak 1 | 21 | as Rojak Ravaging Researchers |
| 2021-12-04 | Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021 | 17 | as Mystinality (Team ❄️) |
| 2021-12-04 | Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021 | 26 | as Inhumanality (Team ⚡) |
| 2021-10-01 | Teammate Hunt 2021 | 1 | as banALITY AND CIRcuses |
| 2021-10-01 | Teammate Hunt 2021 | 6 | as Carnivality |
| 2021-10-01 | Teammate Hunt 2021 | 12 | as 🎉 Partynality 🥳 |
| 2021-09-10 | QoDE Puzzle Hunt | 3 | as Qardinality |
| 2021-08-21 | Puzzle Potluck 4 | 8 | |
| 2021-07-23 | Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2020 | 2 | |
| 2021-07-23 | Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2020 | 19 | as Ordinality |
| 2021-07-23 | Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2020 | 26 | as egginality |
| 2021-07-16 | Hunt20 2.1 Puzzle Hunt | 1 | |
| 2021-05-29 | Huntinality 2021 | Host | |
| 2021-05-08 | Paradox Puzzle Hunt 2021 | 7 | as paradoxinality |
| 2021-01-30 | Inexact Puzzle Hunt | 3 | as Halloweenie Hut Jr's |
| 2021-01-30 | Inexact Puzzle Hunt | 19 | as Rejectinality |
| 2021-01-30 | Inexact Puzzle Hunt | 21 | as Ornithogonality |
| 2021-01-30 | Inexact Puzzle Hunt | 30 | as Princetonality |
| 2021-01-02 | UMD Puzzle Hunt 2021 | 8 | as Turtle Curlers |
| 2021-01-02 | UMD Puzzle Hunt 2021 | 10 | as Teddy Set Go |
| 2021-01-02 | UMD Puzzle Hunt 2021 | 19 | as Cardinality Rejects |
| 2021-01-02 | UMD Puzzle Hunt 2021 | 21 | as DisCardinality |
| 2020-12-12 | CRUMS Puzzle Hunt 2020 | 10 | as Turtle Curlers |
| 2020-12-12 | CRUMS Puzzle Hunt 2020 | 11 | as junofriends |
| 2020-12-12 | CRUMS Puzzle Hunt 2020 | 12 | as ℵ₀ |
| 2020-12-12 | CRUMS Puzzle Hunt 2020 | 15 | as Baconality |
| 2020-12-12 | CRUMS Puzzle Hunt 2020 | 16 | as Bready Set Go |
| 2020-12-12 | CRUMS Puzzle Hunt 2020 | 18 | as cardinality rejects |
| 2020-12-12 | CRUMS Puzzle Hunt 2020 | 21 | as Teddy Set Dough |
| 2020-09-18 | DP Puzzle Hunt | 6 | |
| 2020-09-18 | DP Puzzle Hunt | 12 | as Duplicitous Pseudonym |
| 2020-06-20 | Puzzle Potluck 3 | 8 | |
| 2019-07-20 | Smogon Puzzle Hunt 2019 | 21 | as Eternal Busters |
| 2019-03-15 | Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2019 | 3 | |
| 2018-11-30 | Caltech Puzzle Hunt 2018 | 4 | |
| 2018-07-02 | SUMS Puzzle Hunt 2018 | 3 | |
| 2018-03-16 | Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2018 | 13 |
