mezzacotta Puzzle Competition 2016

mezzacotta Puzzle Competition 2016
Hunt banner
Running Team	mezzacotta
No. of Registered Teams	231
Winning Team	Octarine Herrings
No. of Rounds	1
No. of Puzzles (Feeders and Metas)	26
Timeframe and Location
Location	Online
Start Time	6:00 PM AEDT, 10th Oct 2016
Finishing Time (Winning Team)	7:29 AM AEDT, 15th Oct 2016
Official End Time	6:00 PM AEDT 18th Oct 2016
Links
Hunt Link	Link
Leaderboard Link	Link
mezzacotta Puzzle Competition Chronology

The mezzacotta Puzzle Competition was a puzzle hunt run in 2016, run by the organizers of the CiSRA Puzzle Competition, which had run four seven times previously between 2007 and 2013. 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 the Discworld series. Two teams scored the maximum of 130 points (solving all 25 feeder puzzles and meta within a day of release). Between these two teams, Octarine Herrings were the first to finish all puzzles. Unclean Axis was the first team to solve the metapuzzle, winning the meta prize.

List of Puzzles

Act 1

Released 6:00 PM AEDT 10th Oct 2016

• 1A: Pule
• 1B: Picture Carnival
• 1C: Free Image Market
• 1D: Destinations
• 1E: Five Squares Plus Another Five Squares

Act 2

Released 6:00 PM AEDT 11th Oct 2016

• 2A: Learn Your ABCs
• 2B: Bonza
• 2C: Some Faces
• 2D: I Met A Man
• 2E: Hollow

Act 3

Released 6:00 PM AEDT 12th Oct 2016

• 3A: Interesting Bunch of People
• 3B: Building Blocks
• 3C: Time and Space
• 3D: Swatches
• 3E: Animal Quarters

Act 4

Released 6:00 PM AEDT 13th Oct 2016

• 4A: All Astir
• 4B: Art Elsewhere
• 4C: Crossover Word
• 4D: Signs of Change
• 4E: Tangram Mix-up

Act 5

Released 6:00 PM AEDT 14th Oct 2016

• 5A: Shaggy Cat Story
• 5B: Protecting the Elderly
• 5C: Lines
• 5D: Befuddled
• 5E: Cleaving Hearts

Meta Puzzle

Released 6:00 PM AEDT 14th Oct 2016

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