Talk:List of Puzzle Hunts
Latest comment: 2 years ago by CoreyPlover in topic Acronyms
Puzzle Hunt classification
Uncertainties in classifications:
- Colby's Curious Cook-off -> Offline as no defined end time, so "leaderboard" never closes?
New reclassifications
- HMMT Puzzle Hunt -> Online. No leaderboard, but does seem to have been competitive at the time, and seems similar to other High School / University based puzzle hunts (just smaller).
Agreed reclassifications (have been implemented)
- Co-Puzzle Hunt -> Online? This was a discrete event even though no leaderboard or registration is available on website, but it seems to fit better alongside DP Puzzle Hunt
- Google Puzzle Hunt -> Googol Conglomerate Hunt
- Inexact Puzzle Hunt -> Leaderboard found inside with puzzles. Therefore keep as online
- Intercoastal Altercations -> Online, as these were events at the time and brief leaderboard summaries are available
- MathCamp -> Was essentially a competitive Mathcamp event, provided like an offline hunt for the general public? Classified as "Online" though due to regularity of recurrence
- Microsoft Puzzle Hunt -> Unsure because we have such few available in any form. But presumable they were open to public and competitive, So keep as "online"
- PaizoCon Puzzle Hunt -> Online as they presumably ran live during the convention vs Offline as no online results are available. Classified as online due to regularity of recurrence
- Pea Puzzle Hunt -> PEA Puzzle Hunt
- Puzzled Pint -> Online, events held in bars around the world, so probably BAPHL / DASH like
- Ultraviolet -> Online as it was an event + Discord (and leaderboard is available at original source)
- CoreyPlover (talk) 18:29, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
Acronyms
The following are just preliminary thoughts and can be subject to community consensus:
- For most puzzle hunts, the constructing team is known by an acronym and the Puzzle Hunt name is a separate entity of sorts (usually that acronym followed by words like "Puzzle Hunt" or "Competition"). In those cases, I've used a convention where the links are in the form "ACRONYM Puzzle Hunt" (i.e. MIT Mystery Hunt, MUMS Puzzle Hunt, NPL Convention, RSS Christmas Quiz, etc). Within these hunt pages, there may be further links to the constructing team itself. If so, those links would likely appear under their expanded name at first instance (i.e. The MUMS Puzzle Hunt is held annually by the students of the Melbourne University Mathematics and Statistics Society)
- For other puzzle hunts, the hunt itself is the entity identifies by an acronym. In these cases, the hunt is linked under their expanded name (i.e. [[Boston Area Puzzle Hunt League|Boston Area Puzzle Hunt League (BAPHL), [[Different Area, Same Hunt|Different Area, Same Hunt (DASH), etc)
