List of Puzzle Hunts

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This is a list of puzzle hunts, separated into those held as online events (with defined start and end times, team registration, leaderboards, etc) and "offline" collections (often untimed and provided in standalone, downloadable PDF or HTML form).

Live Puzzle Hunt events[edit | edit source]

These events require teams to go from location to location to solve puzzles, and puzzles may make heavy use of the surrounding physical environment.

Name List of hunts Recent
Bay Area Night Game (BANG)
Boston Area Puzzle Hunt League (BAPHL)
Coed Astronomy Leisurely Mini-games (CALM)
Different Area, Same Hunt (DASH)
D.C. Puzzle Hunters (DCPH®)
Dortmunder Nachtschicht (German)
E-NIGMA
Elevate Tutoring Puzzle Hunt
Ghost Patrol
Great America Race
JoCo Cruise Crazy
Karlsruher Kombilösen (German)
Nürnberger RätselNacht (German)
Palantir Puzzle Hunt
PuzzleBang
Seattle and Nearby Adventures in Puzzling (SNAP)
Shinteki Decathlon
Tacoma Puzzle Hunt
The Game
TMOU (Czech)

Conference Room Puzzle Hunt events[edit | edit source]

These events have a set location, but generally teams will stay in one room or area while solving puzzles, possibly moving around during a runaround or fairly sparse location-based puzzles. Remote hunters are usually supported to some extent for these hunts. During the COVID pandemic, many of these hunts were run as online puzzle hunts instead.

Name List of hunts Recent
Bay Area High School Puzzle Hunt
Berkeley Mystery Hunt
Bloomberg Bpuzzled
Brown Puzzlehunt
Carvana Puzzle Hunt
CMU Puzzle Hunt
College Puzzle Challenge
CS50x Puzzle Day
DEFCON Raitlin's Challenge
Facebook Hack-a-Hunt
Googol Conglomerate Hunt
Harvard Puzzle Hunt
Harvey Mudd/Rose-Hulman Puzzle Hunt
HMMT Puzzle Hunt
Intercoastal Altercations
Mathcamp Puzzle Hunt
Mathematical Puzzle Programs
Matrix (Czech)
Microsoft Puzzle Hunt
MIT Aquarium Puzzle Hunt
MIT Mystery Hunt
MOSP Puzzle Hunt
NPL Extravaganza
PaizoCon Puzzle Hunt
PEA Puzzle Hunt
Puzzled Pint
Puzzlepalooza
Singapore Puzzle Hunt
Stanford (ACM) Puzzle Hunt
SUMO Puzzle Hunt
UMD Puzzle Hunt
University of Chicago Puzzle Hunt
USC Puzzle Hunt
UT Puzzle Hunt
VT Hunt
WWU Great Puzzle Hunt

Online puzzle hunt events[edit | edit source]

These events generally have no expectation of teams needing to be in a particular location, except possibly to be able to do a live endgame, which is optional for the purposes of ranking.

Name List of hunts Recent
123 123 Hunt
Advent Hunt
Arcane Game
Bloomberg Summer of Puzzles
Burn After Solving
Caltech Puzzle Hunt
Cambridge Puzzle Hunt
Cipher & Code Breaking Competition (Chinese)
Co-Puzzle Hunt
Colby's Curious Cook-off
CRUMS Puzzle Hunt
Cryptex Hunt
CuCaTS Puzzle Hunt
Dark Horse Challenge
DaroCaro Puzzle Hunt
DP Puzzle Hunt
EC Puzzle Hunt
Edric's Treasure Hunt
EMU Puzzle Hunt
Enigame
Galactic Puzzle Hunt
Glyph Puzzle Hunt
Holiday Hoopla
Hunt for Justice
Hunt20 Puzzle Hunt
Huntinality
Inaudible Hunt
Inexact Puzzle Hunt
INTEGIRLS Puzzle Hunt
Island Puzzle Hunt
Jianghu Jiemi (Chinese)
Kevin's Puzzles
Labor Day Extravaganza
Leo Puzzle Hunt
Luogu Puzzle Hunt (Chinese)
mezzacotta Puzzle Competition [1]
MiaoHunt (Chinese)
Mindbreakers
Mirroux Spy Puzzle Hunt
Mission Street Puzzles
MUMS Puzzle Hunt
Palo Alto Puzzle Hunt
Paradox Puzzle Hunt
Purple People Eaters Puzzle Hunt
Puzzle Boat
Puzzle Potluck
Puzzle Rojak
Puzzle and Key Universe (Chinese)
Puzzles are Magic
Puzzling Elves Puzzlehunt
QoDE Puzzle Hunt
Quantum Online Puzzle Hunt
REDDOTHunt
RIT CS Puzzle Hunt
RMHS Pi Day Puzzle Hunt
RSS Christmas Quiz
Rubik's Cube 50th Anniversary Hunt
Shardhunt
Silph Puzzle Hunt [2]
SUMS Puzzle Hunt
Teammate Hunt
The Cryptid Hunt
The Grand Hunt
The Puzzler Puzzle Hunt
The Time Travel Chronicles
Toronto Puzzle Hunt
TTT Puzzle Hunt
Ultraviolet Puzzle Challenge
Vehemence Hunt
  1. previously CiSRA Puzzle Competition
  2. previously Smogon Puzzle Hunt

"Offline" puzzle hunt collections[edit | edit source]

These puzzle hunt collections are released without a particular requirement to participate in the event at a particular time.

Name List of hunts Recent
Alinea Group
Beginner's Luck Pre-Hunt
Brian Chen's Puzzle Collection
Broken Buzzer Games
Bruce Leban's Puzzle Collection
Carl Worth's Christmas Hunt
Cenarius's Thrill of the Hunt
Chieu Nguyen's Puzzle Collection
Cracking the Cryptic
Deusovi's Mini hunts
Dan Katz's Mini Hunt
Dan Simon's Puzzles
Darren Miller's Puzzles
Dave Shukan's Mini Hunts
Dr. Bob's Online Holiday Puzzle Hunt
Duckmedic's Meta Match
Dustin Foley's Mini Extravaganza
Elite Puzzle Hunt
Erin Rhode's Puzzle Collection
GCHQ Christmas Puzzle
Jack Brounstein's Puzzle Collection
Jack Lance's P.I.HUNT
Jen McTeague (CuteMage)'s Puzzle Collection
Jim McCann's Puzzle Collection
Jordan B. L. Smith's Puzzle Collection
Ken Jennings's Puzzle Collection
Kevin Y. Chen's Puzzle Collection
Kieran J. Boyd's Puzzle Collection
Larry Hosken's Puzzle Collection
lvl1psy's Pre-Hunts
Manic Sages Pre-Hunt
Matt Jones's Puzzle Hunt
Max & Hayley Woghiren's Puzzle Hunt
Nathan Curtis's Mini Extravaganza
Niv's Puzzle Hunt
Noah Snyder's Puzzle Hunt
Noah Steele's mini-puzzlehunt
NPL Convention
P&A Magazine
phenomist's Puzzle Collection
Procyon's Puzzle Hunts
Projectyl's Mini Hunt
PuzzFeed Pre-Hunt
Puzzle Crawl
Puzzle Society Puzzle Hunt
Rusty's Puzzle Journal
Ryan Veeder's Puzzle Collection
Sara Winters's Puzzle Journal
Studio369's Puzzles
Thomas Snyder's Puzzle Collection
Trip Payne's Mini Extravaganza
Wei-Hwa Huang's Puzzle Collection

Hunt hosting websites[edit | edit source]

A list of websites where community members can publish hunts follows, with a partial list of hunts.

Name List of hunts Recent
Ephesus
Grey Labyrinth Hunts
Had to Play On
  • See here for a list of Had to Play On contests
Luogu (Chinese)
  • See here for a list of Luogu contests
myus
Puzzletome
  • See here for a list of Puzzletome contests
Puzzling Stack Exchange
  • See here for a list of Puzzling Stack Exchange hunts
r/PictureGame
  • See here for a list of r/PictureGame Hunt Rounds
Sporcle Puzzle Hunts
SPEAKEASY Puzzle Hunt (Sporcle)
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