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Unlock Juice, sometimes called simply JUICE, is a visible tracker of progress within a puzzle hunt, as well as a way to determine when milestones that determine new unlocks have been hit. While many hunts may use hidden point values assigned to puzzles to determine when teams have solved enough to unlock new content, hunts that use Unlock Juice will have that number visible to solvers, allowing to be used as both a morale booster and a gauge for how close the next unlock may be.

Unlock Juice is an alternative to other traditional unlock structures such as adjacency unlocks or timed unlocks. Additionally, Unlock Juice refers specifically to currencies and metrics that allow new rounds and puzzles to be unlocked. Similar systems that allow the purchase of hints or free solves will be found under Hint Currency.

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Did you know ...

  • ...that Microsoft Puzzle Hunt first used gph-site to host their puzzlehunt in 2023?
  • ...that Edric's DUAL Hunt has the largest number of puzzles of all hunts run on Edric's website so far?
  • ...that Shardhunt is a direct follow-up to a smaller hunt hosted on a Discord server?
  • ...that CCBC used to stand for Cipher & Code Bar Competition because of its association with Baidu Cipher Bar?
  • ...that when only using 1s and 0s, the last five digits of an ASCII encoding of an English letter is identical to the same English letter written in binary?

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