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|This Treasure Hunt was rebranded as "Edric's 2022 Worldwide Man-Hunt" for this one year, in keeping with its central conceit. |
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|This hunt was announced as the "2023 (!) Puzzle Hunt" and much of its structure was built around the conceit of time being weirdly and mysteriously distorted. |
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Revision as of 23:18, 24 February 2022
Edric’s Treasure Hunts are annual online puzzle hunts. The Treasure Hunts are shorter, strictly linear hunts and have traditionally taken place the first weekend of April. The Puzzle/Truzzle Hunts are longer, more complicated hunts and have traditionally taken place in early July.
Treasure Hunts
At the launch of a Treasure Hunt, solvers are given an initial puzzle which, once solved, directs them to the next puzzle. After solving the full chain of puzzles in turn, solvers reach a final page which congratulates them for finishing the hunt. The first Treasure Hunt went live in 2018, and there has been a Treasure Hunt every year since then. (In 2022, the Treasure Hunt went by the name of "The Worldwide Man-Hunt.")
Puzzle Hunts
Puzzle Hunts are patterned after the old Australians hunts (especially the SUMS Puzzle Hunt) and feature batches of four puzzles uploaded daily across the span of a week. The hunt cumulates in a final metapuzzle which incorporates the solutions to all 24 of the feeder puzzles in its mechanic. The first such Puzzle Hunt was run in 2020.
Truzzle Hunts
Truzzle Hunts feature puzzles which are all uploaded right at the beginning of the hunt, but with the majority of the puzzles gated behind an unlock structure and initially inaccessible to solvers. Solving initial puzzles gives solvers access to subsequent puzzles until eventually the entire scope of the hunt is revealed. The hunt cumulates in a final metapuzzle which incorporates the solutions to all the feeder puzzles in its mechanic. The first such Truzzle Hunt was run in 2021.
| Year | Type | Launch Date | Number of Puzzles | Notes |
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| 2018 | Treasure | 2018-04-06 | 5 | |
| 2019 | Treasure | 2019-04-05 | 6 | |
| 2020 | Treasure | 2020-04-03 | 6 | |
| 2020 | Puzzle | 2020-07-12 | 25+meta
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This hunt featured a "faux-meta" puzzle halfway through the hunt, the solving of which unlocked the puzzles for Day Four instead of representing the end of the hunt. It also featured a "sidecar-hunt" (branded as "The HappyJon Special") which ran parallel to, but separate from, the main hunt. |
| 2021 | Treasure | 2021-04-02 | 5 | This hunt was actually presented on a single .pdf, rather than as a chain of puzzles. |
| 2021 | Truzzle | 2021-07-09 | 30+meta | This hunt was "set" within a circular prison, whose concentric circular rings and pattern of doors-leading-to-pairs-of-new-doors defined the unlock structure for the hunt. |
