MUMS Puzzle Hunt 2016

MUMS Puzzle Hunt 2016
Poster from MUMS 2016
Running Team	Melbourne University Maths Society
No. of Registered Teams	220
Winning Team	Bill & Ted's Plughulous Adventure
No. of Rounds	1
No. of Puzzles (Feeders and Metas)	26
Timeframe and Location
Location	Online
Start Time	12:00 PM AEST, 9th May 2016
Official End Time	12:00 PM AEST, 17th May 2016
Links
Hunt Link	Link
Leaderboard Link	Link
MUMS Puzzle Hunt Chronology

The MUMS Puzzle Hunt 2016 was the 13th iteration of the MUMS Puzzle Hunt, run by the Melbourne University Maths Society. It follows the Australian hunt format, with five puzzles were released each day for five days, with the metapuzzle also released on the fifth day. The theme of the hunt involved time travel. Four teams scored the maximum of 125 points (solving all 25 feeder puzzles within a day of release). Bill & Ted's Plughulous Adventure had the lowest average solve time of 4.17 hours, barely beating out ⌊π⌋ by a margin of 11 seconds average solve time (or a total solve time of 275 seconds). Cat Fedora Group was the first team to physically find the meta piece buried in the campus of the University of Melbourne.

List of Puzzles

Act 1

Released 12:00 PM AEST 9th May 2016

• 1.1: Pursued by a Bear
• 1.2: Storm
• 1.3: Eons Apart
• 1.4: Diary of a Stranger
• 1.5: Legendary

Act 2

Released 12:00 PM AEST 10th May 2016

• 2.1: Animal Farm
• 2.2: Theology
• 2.3: Choose Your Own Adventure
• 2.4: Now You Will Be Gone!
• 2.5: Ship's Time

Act 3

Released 12:00 PM AEST 11th May 2016

• 3.1: Mouths
• 3.2: Build-A-Puzzle
• 3.3: Middleman
• 3.4: Pedigrees
• 3.5: Hindu Shuffle

Act 4

Released 12:00 PM AEST 12th May 2016

• 4.1: See? Mi!
• 4.2: VSEPR
• 4.3: Wild MissingNo Attacked!
• 4.4: Trends
• 4.5: Grid Logic

Act 5

Released 12:00 PM AEST 13th May 2016

• 5.1: Power Circuits
• 5.2: Time's Wheel
• 5.3: Obliquely Defined
• 5.4: Dream Team
• 5.5: Writing on the Wall

Meta Puzzle

Released 12:00 PM AEST 13th May 2016

• Time and Relative Dimension in Space