MIT Mystery Hunt 2019
| MIT Mystery Hunt 2019 | |
|---|---|
| Running Team | Setec Astronomy |
| No. of Registered Teams | 105 |
| Winning Team | Left Out |
| No. of Rounds | 11 |
| No. of Puzzles (Feeders and Metas) | 174 (excluding the Your Birthday Town interaction, the endgame, and the events meta) |
| Timeframe and Location | |
| Start Time | 1:00PM EST, January 15, 2021 |
| Finishing Time (Winning Team) | 7:55PM EST, January 17, 2021 |
| Official End Time | 10:00AM EST, January 18, 2021 |
| MIT Mystery Hunt Chronology | |
MIT Mystery Hunt 2019 was the 39th iteration of the MIT Mystery Hunt, with kickoff occurring on January 15, 2021. Run by Setec Astronomy, the hunt was themed after holidays with a plot inspired by The Nightmare Before Christmas.
In this iteration of the Mystery Hunt, metapuzzles were consistently placed between two rounds and took some feeder answers from both rounds adjacent to them. Matching feeder answers to metapuzzles was left to the solvers and was a major component of the hunt's structure.
This was the most recent Mystery Hunt to use phone calls from HQ instead of an automated answer checker. The live hunt also ended with both of the leading teams (Left Out and Palindrome) having only First You Visit Burkina Faso-- a feeder that had been unlocked for both teams on Friday night which had already been solved by 8 other teams-- and its associated meta as solves that could potentially give them progress.
Archive solve warning: It is not safe to look at the solution pages to completed feeder puzzles for this hunt unless your team has already solved that puzzle's associated meta because every feeder's solution page spoils which meta it feeds.
List of Rounds
| Round Title | Number of Feeder Puzzles | Number of Metapuzzles |
|---|---|---|
| Christmas Town | 6 | 1* |
| Halloween Town | 17 | 3* |
| Thanksgiving Town | 16 | 3* |
| Valentine's Day Town | 17 | 3* |
| Presidents' Day Town | 12 | 2* |
| New Year's Town | 13 | 3* |
| Arbor Day Town | 18 | 3* |
| Holi Town | 17 | 3* |
| Pi Day Town | 28 | 3* |
| Patriots' Day Town | 11 | 2* |
| Bloomsday Town | 14 | 2* |
| Other | 0 | 1† |
| Events | 5 | 1 |
* The metapuzzles for this round were also fed by puzzles in another round.
† Includes Your Birthday Town, April Fools' Day Town, and Molasses Awareness Day Town.
