Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2019

Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2019
Running Team	✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈
Winning Team	Titanic Socials: "Breaking Ice"™
Timeframe and Location
Location	Online
Links
Hunt Link	Link
Wrapup Link	Link
Leaderboard Link	Link
Galactic Puzzle Hunt Chronology

Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2019, titled The Galactic Artifact, was the third iteration of the Galactic Puzzle Hunt, run by ✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈.

Plot

A curious artifact is discovered in Antarctica. When assembled, it allows the solvers to contact alien civilizations, culminating in a Galactic Conference between the aliens.

Unlock Order

A spreadsheet simulating the unlock order of the hunt can be found here.

List of Puzzles

Round 1

• Cross Lines
• The Farmer's Dilemma
• Twitch Plays GPH
• An Erratic Puzzle
• Courage and Purity
• Line Plots
• Playing with Matches
• Ten Years Later
• Reunited
• Letters from the Expedition
• Polar Sales
• Darker Doki
• The Artifact (Meta)

Round 2

This round involves meta-matching as puzzle-meta correspondences are not given (only the number of metas that the puzzle feeds into, which can either be one or two.

• Something is Off
• Peaches
• Phone Lines
• The Meta Puzzle
• Make Your Own Crossword
• Road Trip
• Word Search II
• 50/50
• Radio Broadcast
• Cuspidation
• Race for the Galaxy
• Galaxy Trucker
• The Last Databender
• Ministry of Word Searches
• A Crossword
• Colors
• Observatory
• Holistic
• Geography Lesson
• Where are They?
• Unsafe
• Puzzle of Dragons
• Research Center
• Image Search
  
  
• The Astrologers (Meta)
• The Archivists (Meta)
• The Animal Trainers (Meta)
• The Artists (Meta)
  
  
• The Galactic Conference (Metameta)

Artifacts

Additionally, the second round introduced a series of artifacts that were released concurrently with puzzle releases, intended to introduce solvers to the Puflantu alien language (which was constructed specifically for this hunt). The artifacts are not regular puzzles in that they do not have an answer that can be called in, but are instead used to learn the Puflantu language, both in terms of grammar as well as vocabulary. The conlang would be used in solving the metas and metameta.

• Note
• Urn
• Book Collection
• Dusty Chart
• Weirdly-Shaped Grid
• Cultural Artifacts
• Newspaper
• Market
• Star Map
• Greasy Booklet
• Collage
• Plan
• Textbook
• Deck of Cards
• Language Discoveries
• Scales
• Friendly Transmission

Leaderboard

Rank	Team	Solves	Finish Time
1	Titanic Socials: "Breaking Ice"™	42	2019-03-18 9:07:00 PM
2	Delicious Bradley	42	2019-03-19 7:48:00 PM
3	Cardinality	42	2019-03-19 11:17:00 PM
4	cliMATE	42	2019-03-20 10:37:00 PM
5	Singapore-USA Non-Stop Puzzling Alliance	42	2019-03-21 2:15:00 PM
6	have you tried airport codes	39	2019-03-21 6:14:00 PM
7	Plugh (pronounced Blue)	42	2019-03-22 2:06:00 AM
8	Enter Cticans of /r/PictureGame	42	2019-03-22 3:39:00 AM
9	tfti	42	2019-03-23 2:30:00 AM
10	Ducky Charms	42	2019-03-23 6:04:00 AM
11	Eggplant Parms	42	2019-03-23 10:49:00 AM
12	🧊 pluru 🧊	40	2019-03-23 4:34:00 PM
13	The Llama Resolution	42	2019-03-23 8:04:00 PM
14	Frumious Bandersnatch	40	2019-03-24 5:22:00 PM
15	Penguin Manju Go	42	2019-03-24 6:44:00 PM
16	Tee Shirts? Bad Idea.	42	2019-03-24 9:36:00 PM
16	Tee Shirts? Bad Idea.	42	2019-03-24 9:36:00 PM
17	Quarks and Gluons	40	2019-03-24 9:39:00 PM
18	ARTIFACTARTIFACTARTIFACT	41	2019-03-24 10:07:00 PM
19	The C@r@line Syzygy	38	2019-03-24 11:12:00 PM
20	Puzzkill	37	2019-03-24 11:33:00 PM
21	Floe Riders	42	2019-03-25 12:01:00 AM
22	Brad Anderson’s “Space Otters vs. Hailfire Wombats: The Epic Showdown”	42	2019-03-25 12:23:00 AM
22	Brad Anderson’s “Space Otters vs. Hailfire Wombats: The Epic Showdown”	42	2019-03-25 12:23:00 AM
23	Bifolium, Son of Codex	42	2019-03-25 12:38:00 AM
24	The Last Puzzlebenders	40	2019-03-25 1:58:00 AM
25	Elite Sleet Agents	42	2019-03-25 2:22:00 AM
25	Elite Sleet Agents	42	2019-03-25 2:22:00 AM
26	Doraemon	42	2019-03-25 3:16:00 AM
27	Grothendieck Universe	40	2019-03-25 5:34:00 AM

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