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.

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	This Site's Bloody Illegible	43	2021-07-24 8:19:00 PM
2	Cardinality	43	2021-07-25 7:24:00 AM
3	Anchovy Pear Tree	43	2021-07-25 8:28:00 AM
4	The Blob Wizards	43	2021-07-25 9:45:00 AM
5	Synod	43	2021-07-25 5:35:00 PM
6	The C@r@line Syzygy	43	2024-07-25 7:31:00 PM
7	have you tried naming your hunt after the year it's happening in?	43	2021-07-25 10:06:00 PM
8	Killer Chicken Bones	43	2021-07-26 1:56:00 AM
9	Nearsighted, Farsighted, Wherever You Aresighted	43	2021-07-26 8:19:00 AM
10	moderATE Myopia	43	2021-07-26 8:48:00 PM
11	Glasses are really versatile. First, you can have glasses-wearing girls take them off and suddenly become beautiful, or have girls wearing glasses flashing those cute grins, or have girls stealing the	43	2021-07-27 1:32:00 AM
12	Plughrry	43	2021-07-27 1:35:00 AM
13	Eye Candies of /r/PictureGame	43	2021-07-27 2:02:00 AM
14	Eggplant Parms	43	2021-07-27 2:31:00 AM
15	Exit, pursued by a llama	43	2021-07-27 3:17:00 AM
16	Pusheen Appreciation Society	43	2021-07-27 6:27:00 AM
17	underscore_score_vision	43	2021-07-27 7:58:00 PM
18	Please Chop	43	2021-07-27 10:28:00 PM
19	Ordinality	43	2021-07-27 10:59:00 PM
20	pluru	43	2021-07-27 11:25:00 PM
21	Flower Power	43	2021-07-28 1:51:00 AM
22	17th Shard	43	2021-07-28 2:26:00 PM
23	1cool3me	43	2021-07-28 6:40:00 PM
24	🎏🎏🎏 Myopic Herrings 🎏🎏🎏	43	2021-07-28 8:03:00 PM
25	🦆 Baby Ducks 🦆	43	2021-07-28 11:38:00 PM
26	egginality	43	2021-07-29 1:50:00 AM
27	Not Enough Sight	43	2021-07-29 1:52:00 AM
28	Just-Us League	43	2021-07-29 3:48:00 AM
29	Ducky Charms	43	2021-07-29 1:00:00 PM
30	barbara kingsolver	43	2021-07-29 8:25:00 PM

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