Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2018

Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2018
Running Team	✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈
No. of Registered Teams	504
Winning Team	have you tried random anagramming
No. of Rounds	4
No. of Puzzles (Feeders and Metas)	41
Timeframe and Location
Location	Online
Start Time	3:14PM ET, March 16, 2018
Finishing Time (Winning Team)	6:20PM ET, March 18, 2018
Official End Time	3:14AM ET, March 26, 2018
Links
Hunt Link	Link
Wrapup Link	Link
Leaderboard Link	Link
Galactic Puzzle Hunt Chronology

Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2018, titled The Great Galactic Bakeoff, was the second iteration of the Galactic Puzzle Hunt, run by ✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈. This was the first Galactic Puzzle Hunt to feature progression-based unlocks, as puzzles would unlock based on what puzzles the team has solved, instead of unlocking at a set schedule. The puzzle hunt was themed after the incremental game Cookie Clicker and cookies in general. Initially, puzzles are unlocked through clicking on a cookie in order to increase the number of cookies. However, the cookie requirement quickly becomes infeasible to attain through simply clicking, and therefore teams must solve puzzles to advance.

Plot

The first part involves a contest where the first team to reach a billion cookies would win. One team quickly reaches this goal - COOKIECOOKIECOOKIE - and the hunt is won. However, this raises suspicions as it turns out that this team has not solved a single puzzle. Instead, teams solve the Consolation Prize meta in order to determine the identity of this suspicious team, and determine that it is actually the Cookie Monster! The next rounds unlock abilities to use at the Great Galactic Bakery, where the Cookie Monster is stationed. The endgame involves bringing the number of cookies that Cookie Monster has down to 0.

List of Puzzles

Round 1

• Try and Eat
• Emotion Pictures
• The Wepp Perflontus Bake Off
• An Eccentric Crossword
• Sequencing
• Math 101
• Everything and More
• Parlor
• Stackables
• Special Snowflake
• Interstate Commerce
• Trigger
• Consolation Prize (Meta)

Chessmen Round

• Word Search
• o ea/Wrd Srch
• Layover
• Make Your Own Fillomino
• Exceptional Expedition
• Lips Are Movin'
• Cookie Clicker
• Calm Portals
• Chessmen (Meta)

Fortune Cookies Round

• Overtime
• Anagram Solver
• Destructive Interference
• Visitor's Guide
• Adventure
• Missing Pieces
• Light Box
• Tabloid News
• Fortune Cookies (Meta)

Animal Crackers Round

• Earth-shattering
• Unusual and Strange Puzzle Collection
• Third Rail
• Now Get Ready For...
• Pride and Accomplishment
• The Answer to This Puzzle Is...
• Cryptic Command
• Split the Reference
• Animal Crackers (Meta)

Bakery (Endgame)

• The Great Galactic Bakery