Duck Soup

Duck Soup is a team that participates in puzzle hunts. Duck Soup is currently open to new members, and participates in many online puzzle hunts in addition to the MIT Mystery Hunt. Sister teams of Duck Soup include Keep Puzzling and Moose Capers.

In 2023, Literally Animal Farm split off from Duck Soup.

History

The team was formed in 2008 from a merger of two groups of MIT friends that had hunted in the 2007 MIT Mystery Hunt, one of them as Team Onigiri and the other as members of Super Team Awesome. It has participated in every MITMH since 2008. Early on, Duck Soup was made up of MIT students and alums, but in 2011 the team opened up and joined with members of the TV Tropes community and elsewhere. Since then, it has grown primarily by word of mouth, and now has members from multiple continents. In recent years, Duck Soup has also participated in other hunts, while joining up with some smaller teams for larger events such as the Mystery Hunts.

The team name is taken from the Marx Brothers movie of the same name, a favorite of one of the co-founders.

Hunt performances

Date	Hunt	Rank	Notes
2022-01-14	MIT Mystery Hunt 2022	16	as Duck Soup (with an Exploding Moose)
2021-12-04	Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021	27	as Psyduck Soup (Team ⚡)
2021-10-01	Teammate Hunt 2021	28
2021-09-10	QoDE Puzzle Hunt	26
2021-01-15	MIT Mystery Hunt 2021	23
2020-06-20	Puzzle Potluck 3	13
2020-01-17	MIT Mystery Hunt 2020	26	as ducksoup
2019-01-18	MIT Mystery Hunt 2019	27
2018-11-30	Caltech Puzzle Hunt 2018	24
2018-03-16	Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2018	9	as ducksoup
2018-01-12	MIT Mystery Hunt 2018	29
2017-01-13	MIT Mystery Hunt 2017	26
2016-01-15	MIT Mystery Hunt 2016	27	as ducksoup
2015-01-16	MIT Mystery Hunt 2015	25	as ducksoup
2014-01-10	MIT Mystery Hunt 2014	27
2013-01-11	MIT Mystery Hunt 2013	25	as ducksoup
2012-01-13	MIT Mystery Hunt 2012	26
2011-01-14	MIT Mystery Hunt 2011	24