Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2020
| Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021 | |
|---|---|
| Running Team | ✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈ |
| No. of Registered Teams | 951 |
| Winning Team | This Site's Bloody Illegible |
| No. of Rounds | 5 |
| No. of Puzzles (Feeders and Metas) | 43 |
| Timeframe and Location | |
| Location | Online |
| Start Time | 2021-07-23 19:22 EDT |
| Finishing Time (Winning Team) | 2021-07-24 20:19 EDT |
| Official End Time | 2021-08-02 07:22 EDT |
| Links | |
| Hunt Link | Link |
| Wrapup Link | Link |
| Leaderboard Link | Link |
| Galactic Puzzle Hunt Chronology | |
Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2021, titled 20/20 Vision, was the fourth iteration of the Galactic Puzzle Hunt, run by ✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈. Despite taking place in July-August 2021, the puzzle hunt was branded as "Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2020". The puzzle hunt featured five distinct rounds, with an intro round, and four main rounds themed around optical devices, with most of the rounds having unique mechanisms that affect the puzzles or the unlock structure. This hunt also saw the highest participation of any Galactic Puzzle Hunt so far, with 951 registered teams, and 623 teams having solved at least one puzzle. A total of 76 teams have solved the Telescope metapuzzle and thus finished the hunt.
Plot
Team members woke up in March 13, 2020. The Galactic Puzzle Hunt was going to start soon, but nobody could find their glasses. At this point, teams now started solving puzzles. Though the intro round puzzles started out blurry, it took the eyes one hour to adjust to each of them, at which point they became clearer. After solving the intro round, teams discovered that they have left themselves clues for their glasses' whereabouts on four optical devices ("sights"), with each them being a round in itself:
- Night Vision Goggles
- Periscope
- Microscope
- Binoculars
Once teams solved the four metas of these rounds, the Four Sights meta opened, and solving that unlocked the final Telescope meta.
Structure
The hunt is divided into five main rounds. Most of the rounds have a signature mechanism that uniquely distinguishes them and affects the puzzles or unlock structure.
| Round | Number of Feeder Puzzles | Number of Metapuzzles | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intro | 8 | 1 | Puzzles start out blurry, and become clear after one hour. The clear versions of the puzzles have additional information that makes solving them easier. |
| Night Vision Goggles | 7 | 1 | A mostly "vanilla" round. |
| Periscope | 9 | 1 | Click to revealTeams unlock puzzles by using their solved puzzles to interact with the titular periscope. |
| Microscope | 6 | 1 | Click to revealAll puzzles exist on a single image, which slowly reveals itself in real-time. |
| Binoculars | 6 | 1 | Click to revealAll puzzles have a "left" and "right" version. |
| (Endgame) | n/a | 2 |
List of Puzzles
Intro Round
- Breakfast Time!
- #UnscienceAnAnimal
- Inaccessible
- Where To Next?
- The Meta Meta Meta... Puzzle
- ✅
- Seal of Quality
- Watch Out!
- Eye Chart (Meta)
Night Vision Goggles
- Dropcrypt
- Entropy
- Not to Scale
- Word Salad
- Action Adventure
- Make Your Own Math Quiz
- Virtual Family
- Night Vision Goggles (Meta)
Periscope
- Mr. Worldwide
- Letter Boxing
- The First Annual Blaseball Puzzle
- Divide and Conquer
- The Seasons Change
- Thrifty/Thrifty
- Board Games with Shrek
- Crosswerd
- Mixed Message
- Periscope (Meta)
Microscope
- Charts
- Count the Solutions to This Nurikabe
- False Flags
- Links Interconnect
- Patterns
- Reencode
- Microscope (Meta)
Binoculars
- Symbols
- Friendly Neighbors
- So You Think You Can Spell
- Intersection
- This Puzzle Intentionally Left Blank
- Fridge Magnets
- Binoculars (Meta)
Endgame
- Four Sights (Meta)
- Telescope (Meta)
