Microsoft Puzzlehunt 2023

Microsoft Puzzlehunt 2023
No. of Registered Teams	398
Winning Team	i'm going to be out of country for 10 days starting tomorrow so i'll drop some terrible team name ideas here to get the pot going (don't use them):
No. of Rounds	11
No. of Puzzles (Feeders and Metas)	118
Timeframe and Location
Start Time	6 May 2023, 10:05 AM PDT
Finishing Time (Winning Team)	6 May 2023, 9:45 PM PDT
Official End Time	7 May 2023, 8:00 PM PDT
Links
Hunt Link	Link
Kickoff Link	Link
Microsoft Puzzlehunt Chronology

Puzzle University, also known as Microsoft Puzzlehunt 2023, was an online-only puzzle hunt that was open to completely non-Microsoft-affiliated teams, unlike most iterations of the Microsoft Puzzlehunt which have a requirement on the number of blue-badges (Microsoft employees) per team and are traditionally run on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington.

Puzzle University is available as a fully-functional static site at https://puzzle.university, including unlocks and simulators for all interactive puzzles.

List of Rounds

Round Title	Number of Feeder Puzzles	Number of Metapuzzles
Placement Test	20	2
Economics	9	1
Music	8	1
English	6Click to reveal12 answers, since each puzzle has two answers	1
History	6	1
Computer Science	4Click to reveal17 answers, each puzzle is a function call and you need to evaluate them at 4-5 values	1
Mathematics	7	1
Classics	8	3
Sociology	10	1
Interludes	8	0
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Reviews and write-ups

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