SUMS Puzzle Hunt 2018

SUMS Puzzle Hunt 2018
Running Team	Sydney University Maths Society
No. of Registered Teams	304
Winning Team	Synod
No. of Rounds	1
No. of Puzzles (Feeders and Metas)	20
Timeframe and Location
Location	Online
Start Time	12:00 PM AEST, 2 July, 2018
Finishing Time (Winning Team)	2:42 PM AEST, 7 July, 2018
Official End Time	12:00 PM AEST, 10 July, 2018
Links
Hunt Link	Link
Leaderboard Link	Link
SUMS Puzzle Hunt Chronology

The SUMS Puzzle Hunt 2018 was the 9th iteration of the SUMS Puzzle Hunt, run by the Sydney University Maths Society. It follows the Australian hunt format, with four puzzles were released each day for five days, with the metapuzzle also released on the fifth day. The theme of the hunt involved a movie watching party. Synod was the overall winning team, as the first team to finish all 20 regular puzzles with a score of 99 (meaning that all puzzles but one were solved within 24 hours). Plugh (Pronounced Pluff) was the top team among those with an Australian member. The team Can's Film Festival won the meta prize, for being the first team to solve the meta puzzle at 9:31 AM AEST, 9 July, 2018.

List of Puzzles

Act I

Released 12:00 PM AEST 2 July 2018

• I-1: A Strange Introduction
• I-2: Bad Maths
• I-3: A Mess of Sage
• I-4: Average Reservers

Act II

Released 12:00 PM AEST 3 July 2018

• II-1: Constant Memorisation
• II-2: The Head Explodes
• II-3: Made out of Music and Machine
• II-4: Difference of Opinion

Act III

Released 12:00 PM AEST 4 July 2018

• III-1: Blockhouse Blackness
• III-2: 'Ncryption Files
• III-3: United Nations
• III-4: On the Twelfth Day of Christ-masyu

Act IV

Released 12:00 PM AEST 5 July 2018

• IV-1: Play it Out
• IV-2: Roll it Out
• IV-3: Sound it Out
• IV-4: Cross it Out

Act V

Released 12:00 PM AEST 6 July 2018

• V-1: Doubleter
• V-2: Time Travel
• V-3: Faces
• V-4: Pixel Art Gallery

Meta Puzzle

Released 12:00 PM AEST 6 July 2018

• M-1: Roll Credits