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[[File:MITMH 2022 Structure.png|thumb|400x400px|Structure of the 2022 MIT Mystery Hunt]]'''[[MIT Mystery Hunt (2022)|MIT Mystery Hunt 2022]]''' was the 42nd iteration of the [[MIT Mystery Hunt]], with kickoff occurring on January 14th, 2022. Run by Palindrome, the hunt technically began prior to kickoff, with a series of optional Prologue puzzles released on December 13, 2021, and carrying an "intelligent/superpowered animals" theme known as Star Rats. When kickoff occurred in January, the opening skit seemed to be continuing with this theme, but was interrupted by the Hayden Library (a destination on MIT campus mentioned in the Prologue), disappeared into a large hole, which solvers would eventually learn was a place called "Bookspace". The hunt ultimately revolved around books, requiring teams to solve puzzles within children's books for the first two rounds, and then exploring locales based off of book genres via a hub world called "Pen Station". By exploring these regions and collecting parts to power the "Plot Device", teams could finally travel home via Tock the Watchdog's Phantom Tollbooth. |
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== Welcome to {{SITENAME}} == |
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The goal of this wiki is to catalogue puzzles and puzzle hunts, in a form that is both accessible and informative! |
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If you'd like to know more about how a particular puzzle works, or the mechanics involved in its creation and execution, head to its page! There you'll find a walkthrough of that puzzle's intended solve path, accompanied by a list of mechanics and puzzle elements that are prominent in its construction. |
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Similarly, hunt pages will have a number of ways of breaking down the experience of both solving and creating the hunt, including state diagrams, plot summaries, and facts about the hunt's conception. |
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Alternatively, if you want to know about particular mechanics, and perhaps find examples of puzzles that use them, you can do that too! Head to a particular mechanic's page to learn more about any variations it may have, how it's implemented most commonly, and where you might find it out in the wild. |
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==Key Pages== |
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* [[Puzzles]] |
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* [[Puzzle Hunts|Puzzle Hunts (and non-hunt events)]] |
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* [[Elements of Puzzle Creation]] |
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Latest revision as of 20:09, 22 March 2024
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Cipher & Code Breaking Competition, often abbreviated as CCBC, is an annual puzzle hunt run by Cipherpuzzles. It is the oldest puzzlehunt in Chinese. The old name for CCBC was Cipher & Code Bar Competition because the first CCBC was run by SEVENKING who was the administrator of Baidu Cipher Bar in 2008. This name was used until CCBC X, the 10th iteration of CCBC. Due to the reduced correlation between CCBC and Baidu Cipher Bar, the name was changed from 'Bar' to 'Breaking'. It is mainly designed for Chinese puzzle solvers but also friendly to non-Chinese puzzle solvers. Like many other hunts, the winning team will be responsible for designing next year’s hunt. It allows a max team size of 5.
(Full article...)Did you know ...
- ...that in-person attendees at kickoffs have been given parts of physical puzzles during both puzzlehunts run by Brown Puzzlehunt?
- ...teams partaking in CMU Hunt Fall 2023 get one more hour to solve puzzles than in CMU Hunt Spring 2024?
- ...that Arroword crosswords are also referred to as Swedish-styled crosswords?
- ...that the title of Puzzle Rojak partially came because the authors liked rojak, a salad dish from Indonesia?
- ...that user CoreyPlover created the initial List of Puzzle Hunts in February 2022?
Upcoming Events
| Month | List of hunts |
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| May 2024 | 14 (Puzzled Pint May-24) · 18 (Rubik's Cube 50th Anniversary Hunt) · 25 (Puzzle Rojak 2) |
| June 2024 | 11 (Puzzled Pint June-24) |
| July 2024 | 9 (Puzzled Pint July-24) · 16 (Edric's 2024 Ptruzzle Hunt) |
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Popular Pages
- Puzzle Elements - Taxonomy and description of elements that comprise puzzle hunt-style puzzles
- List of Puzzle Hunts / List of Puzzle Hunts by Date - All known puzzle hunts, sorted by franchise/date.
- List of Teams - Prominent puzzle hunt teams. Please feel free to add your team and create a page for it on the wiki!
- Community Resources - External resources for connecting with the puzzle hunt community or learning more about puzzle hunts
- Puzzle Media - External publications - blogs, podcasts, streams, etc - from/about the puzzle community
- Puzzle Solving Resources / Puzzle Writing Resources - External resources that are helpful when solving/writing puzzle hunt puzzles
