List of Teams
Teams, as they appear in puzzle hunts, are groups of solvers working together to complete a hunt. Below is a list of teams that are known to either be active, or that have been active in the past.
Some teams have achieved notoriety within the puzzling community from writing one or more major hunts, by performing well in hunt leader-boards, by representing a specific university or location, or by having a unique gimmick. However, there is no notability requirement for teams to be listed here.
Since team sizes for MIT Mystery Hunt are typically an order of magnitude larger than those for any other recurring hunt, large Mystery Hunt teams often divide into subteams for other hunts. Subteams and naming conventions for subteams should be listed in the "notes" column where relevant.
Active teams
| Team Name | Year of Formation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 17th Shard | 2019 | |
| Ange Management | 2018 | Result of a split from Palindrome |
| Blob Wizards | late 2019 - early 2020 | |
| Cardinality | 2020 (for MITMH) | |
| Central Services | For smaller hunts, makes splinter teams with anagram names like "Scenic Travelers" | |
| Codex | Team changes name to various different Codices | |
| Death and Mayhem | 2013 (in current form) | Result of a merger of Death From Above and Project Electric Mayhem |
| Duck Soup | 2008 | |
| Eggplant Parms | 2018 | |
| Frumious Bandersnatch | 2007 | |
| ✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈ | 2011 | Airplanes are pronounced "Whoooosh" and "Nyeoooow", respectively |
| Ghostbloods | 2021 | |
| Halibut That Bass | ||
| Have you tried | 2018 | |
| Herrings | ||
| Hunches in Bunches | 2015 | Split-off from Random Hall team |
| Immoral, Illegal, and Fattening | 2004 | Split-off from ACME, competed as "JMac's Birthday Party" for first year |
| Inert Oaken Heron | 2021 | Single person team |
| Keep Puzzling | ||
| Killer Chicken Bones | ||
| Left Out | 2005 | Team mostly from USA's Pacific "Left" coast |
| Les Gaulois | 2013 | French team (pronounced /lɛ ɡo.lwa/) |
| Llama | ||
| Metaphysical Plant | 2006 | Split-off from Random Hall team |
| Mobius Strippers | ||
| NES | 2019 | |
| Pluru | ||
| Palindrome | 1995 | Team changes name to various different palindromes |
| Please Clap | ||
| Plugh | 2006 | |
| Pusheen Appreciation Society | ||
| Rage | 2014 | Team changes name to various puns on the word "rage" |
| r/PictureGame | 2017 | |
| Setec Astronomy | 1996 | |
| Setec Astronomy Total Landscaping | Team completely changes names for every MITMH; best known for writing the 2014 Mystery Hunt. "Setec Astronomy Total Landscaping" is their current name; they otherwise have no affiliation with Setec Astronomy. | |
| Super Team Awesome | 2007 | |
| Synod | ||
| Team Eagle Time | ||
| Team To Be Named Later | 2018 | Name has gradually grown longer over time; abbreviated as TTBNL |
| Team Copypasta | 2021 | |
| Team_Underscore | ||
| Teammate | 2015 (for online hunts), 2018 (for MITMH) | Often uses anagrams of TEAM in their team names |
| Test Solution Bees Ignore | 2019 (in current form) | Result of merger of Test Solution Please Ignore and Aviation Laws |
| The C@r@line Syzygy | 2019; 2021 | Originally a two-person Mystery Hunt team in 2019; reformed as an open team for smaller hunts in 2021 |
| The Mathemagicians | 2021 | Team previously known as Team Arithmancy, which evolved from /r/Arithmancy, a Harry Potter puzzle subreddit |
| The Providence Transplantations | ||
| The Puzzle Potluck Crew | 2016; 2018 | |
| Time Vultures | ||
| Track: Coconut Pizza Hut | 2020 | |
| ⛎ UNICODE EQUIVALENCE | 2021 | Often fields smaller teams named for misinterpretations of Unicode characters |
| Up Late | 2000 | |
| [URGENT] | 2019 | |
| Weird Lex and the Aladdin Chickenshackers | 2020 | Pandemic team from the Broken Buzzer and Liquid Kourage trivia communities |
| weeklies.enigmatics.org | 2021 | Small team born from a discord community about online riddles |
| Wafflehaüs |
Defunct teams
| Team Name | Year of Formation | Year of Disbanding | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACME | 1998 | 2003 | Split off from Palindrome under the name Iliaphay, renamed to ACME to run MIT Mystery Hunt 1999. Disbanded after running MIT Mystery Hunt 2003. |
| Aviation Laws | ??? | 2019 | Merged into Test Solution Bees Ignore |
| Test Solution Please Ignore | ??? | 2019 | Merged into Test Solution Bees Ignore |
| Beginner's Luck | 2009 | 2016 | Disbanded after writing MIT Mystery Hunt 2016 |
| Manic Sages | 2004 | 2013 | Disbanded after writing MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 |
| Death From Above | ??? | 2013 | Merged into Death and Mayhem |
| Project Electric Mayhem | ??? | 2013 | Merged into Death and Mayhem |
| The Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb At Midnight | 2006 | 2009 | Disbanded after writing MIT Mystery Hunt 2009 |
