Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021

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Silph Puzzlehunt 2021
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A blue Pokeball with white writing on the circumference reading "Silph Puzzlehunt". Various puzzle-related objects such as a calculator, a pencil, and a sheet of paper, are shown inside of the Pokeball.
Running TeamSilph
Winning TeamDIGIMON: DIGITAL MONSTERS
No. of Rounds2
No. of Puzzles (Feeders and Metas)38
Timeframe and Location
LocationOnline
Start Time2021-12-04 10:00 EST
Finishing Time (Winning Team)13 hours
Official End Time2021-12-13 10:00 EST
Links
Hunt LinkLink
Wrapup LinkLink


The 2021 Silph Puzzle Hunt was the 4th puzzlehunt run by the Silph team. The story takes place in the Pokemon universe - the solver plays the role of a goon for an unnamed team in Round 1, going to various Puzzlestops on a map. As puzzles are solved at the Puzzlestops, new Puzzlestop locations are revealed, until finally the Round 1 Meta is unlocked. After solving the round 1 meta and remembering your task, solvers unlock the second round. Round 2 has a similar structure, but with the more specific task of interacting with Candela, Spark, and Blanche - the three team leaders in the popular mobile game Pokemon GO. Round 2 is comprised of 21 puzzles, which feed into 3 different meta puzzles, one for each team leader, and one final metameta puzzle.

Structure
Round # Feeder Puzzles Meta Puzzles Notes
1 12 1
2 21 4 21 feeders into 3 metas, then one final metameta

Round 1

# Puzzle Notes
1 Opening Ceremony
2 Kids These Days
3 Quick Fix
4 Now I Know My 🐝🐝🐝s NYT Spelling Bee
5 If You Give...
6 Harmony Chess
7 Color-Coded
8 Connections
9 Natural Order Crossword
10 Continuity
11 Chimera
12 Medal Ceremony
META Getting Going

Round 2

# Puzzle
1 I See!
2 White as a Sheet
3 Δ
4 Minute Detail
5 Indirect Anagrams
6 Drop The Cube
7 Only Geniuses Can Solve This Puzzle!!
8 Six Feet Under
9 🤝
10 Cyclic
11 RED SUS
12 Audit Instance
13 Re-actions
14 Composition
15 A Lot of Research into Things That Have Very Little Meaning
16 Card Sharks
17 The Minimeta That Goes Wrong
18 ⭐ Alliance
19 Overdone
20 Whole New Ball Game
21 Straight From The Headlines
META Candela's Mystic Correspondence
META Blanche's Social Instinct
META Spark's Stolen Valor
METAMETA A Turn For The Worse