MIT Mystery Hunt 2021/Students

The Students make up one of the first available rounds of the 2021 MIT Mystery Hunt, with the first puzzles being accessible immediately upon entering the Projection Device, but with the final metas requiring much more progression due to the scattered nature of the puzzle givers throughout the entire map.

Description[edit | edit source]

A book lies open on a table. In it are four photographs showing the locations of particular students within the Projection Device, and the name of the puzzles they give access to. A selection bar at the bottom of the book shows there are 14 pages in the book.
Puzzle selection menu for the Students round.

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Navigation Puzzle[edit | edit source]

Click to revealThe book shows each NPC puzzle giver and their immediate surroundings. Solvers must locate these NPCs. By talking to the NPC, the corresponding puzzle is unlocked. Since there are many NPCs in this round (although not all NPC's are available from the start of opening the hunt, and more are unlocked as teams progress through hunt), it's also a viable strategy to just talk to NPC's in the Projection Device while exploring or walking to various locations on campus, and use the pictures only for locating the last few NPCs.

List of Puzzles[edit | edit source]

15x15 Alternate Controls At A Loss For Words Beverage Blunders Blind Calculation
Bombs Cacophony Circles Cooperation Countries Crossed Out
Cryptic Transmission Debate Quotes Doctor's Orders Exactly Express Yourself FedEx
Film Fish Hybridization Form Got Milk? Heart of the Cards Homemade Photography
Illiterate Programming Let's Get The Ball Rolling Lime Sand Season Look At What We Drew Magic Words Musical Theatre Guild
Namesake No, I Understand You Perfectly Numbers Nutrition Facts Over 9,000: an Abbreviated Yet Awesome Tour Of Your First Equally Excellent Puzzle Mechanic Paint
People Wear Clothes Plus or Minus Recursion Relitasti Rhythm Game Arcade Simplicity
Sketchy Site Stay Hydrated Thank You To Our Sponsors That Sinking Feeling The Game The Lexicographer Looks After His Own
Things Tic Tac Toe Triangles Unraveling The Mystery Whodunit Who's That Pokémon?

Metapuzzle (Maseeh Hall)[edit | edit source]

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Metapuzzle (McCormick Hall)[edit | edit source]

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Metapuzzle (Baker House)[edit | edit source]

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Metapuzzle (Burton-Conner)[edit | edit source]

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Metapuzzle (MacGregor House)[edit | edit source]

The puzzle description is an April Fool's video of puzzle Youtuber Mr. Puzzle trying to solve a two-piece giraffe jigsaw puzzle.


Click to revealThis meta takes two answers, with the meta answer simply being the combination of the two answers to form a well-known phrase.

Metapuzzle (New House)[edit | edit source]

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Metapuzzle (Next House)[edit | edit source]

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Metametapuzzle (Dorm Row)[edit | edit source]

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Metapuzzle (Simmons Hall)[edit | edit source]

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Metapuzzle (EAsT camPUS)[edit | edit source]

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Metapuzzle (Random Hall)[edit | edit source]

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Metametapuzzle (Student Center)[edit | edit source]

Click to revealAll feeder puzzles, as well as additional information associated with each puzzle, are used in this metameta. In addition, the four high-level submetas (combining all the dorm row dorms into Dorm Row) are thematically linked, offering a potential hint to the metameta mechanism.To do TO DO