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A '''Puzzle Hunt''' or a '''Hunt''' is an event where teams solve puzzles of different types for a few hours or days. Hunting, as a community grew from [[MIT Mystery Hunt]] but has now included many different Puzzle Hunts. Hunts are unique from other puzzles by how many different types of puzzles they include, like [[Grid Logic]], [[Crossword]], [[Searching]] and more. Hunt-puzzles often also include an "end goal", an answer phrase people are supposed to submit as they progress through the hunt. Most common hunts also have some sort of [[Metapuzzle]] combining the answers of the the regular puzzles in the hunt. |
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'''Puzzle Hunts''' or '''Hunts''' are events where teams or individuals compete to solve a series of puzzles. Puzzle hunts differ from other puzzle collections or competitive puzzles in that each puzzle yields a word or phrase which can often be verified against some answer checking mechanism, and rounds or hunts culminate in [[metapuzzle]]s that combine these individual answers together in novel ways and which provides an overall conclusion to the Hunt's narrative (often the location of a hidden object, or the resolution to an initially posited question). |
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Other common (but not necessary) characteristics of puzzle hunts are: |
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* An absence of direct solving instructions (deducing the significance of the information provided is often part of the solving experience) |
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* A sequential unlocking of puzzles in some dynamic manner (either via the solving of prior puzzles or the elapse of time) |
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* A deliberately wide breadth of puzzle type (ranging from familiar [[crossword]]s, [[grid]]s, and [[cryptogram]]s to unique and abstract constructions), form (pen and paper based, multimedia, physical puzzles, or live events), and assumed knowledge. |
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Puzzle hunts may range in scale from a small group of puzzles and a metapuzzle that is solvable by an individual in a single sitting, to the eponymous [[MIT Mystery Hunt]], one of the oldest and most complex puzzle hunts in the world taking place over an entire weekend and comprising well over one hundred puzzles and multiple levels of metapuzzles. |
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== List of Puzzle hunts == |
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Revision as of 15:12, 1 March 2022
Puzzle Hunts or Hunts are events where teams or individuals compete to solve a series of puzzles. Puzzle hunts differ from other puzzle collections or competitive puzzles in that each puzzle yields a word or phrase which can often be verified against some answer checking mechanism, and rounds or hunts culminate in metapuzzles that combine these individual answers together in novel ways and which provides an overall conclusion to the Hunt's narrative (often the location of a hidden object, or the resolution to an initially posited question).
Other common (but not necessary) characteristics of puzzle hunts are:
- An absence of direct solving instructions (deducing the significance of the information provided is often part of the solving experience)
- A sequential unlocking of puzzles in some dynamic manner (either via the solving of prior puzzles or the elapse of time)
- A deliberately wide breadth of puzzle type (ranging from familiar crosswords, grids, and cryptograms to unique and abstract constructions), form (pen and paper based, multimedia, physical puzzles, or live events), and assumed knowledge.
Puzzle hunts may range in scale from a small group of puzzles and a metapuzzle that is solvable by an individual in a single sitting, to the eponymous MIT Mystery Hunt, one of the oldest and most complex puzzle hunts in the world taking place over an entire weekend and comprising well over one hundred puzzles and multiple levels of metapuzzles.
List of Puzzle hunts
See List of Puzzle Hunts.
