List of Teams
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Teams, as they appear in puzzle hunts, are groups of solvers working together to complete a hunt. Below is a list of teams that are known to either be active, or that have been active in the past.
Some teams have achieved notoriety within the puzzling community from writing one or more major hunts, by performing well in hunt leader-boards, by representing a specific university or location, or by having a unique gimmick. However, there is no notability requirement for teams to be listed here.
Since team sizes for MIT Mystery Hunt are typically an order of magnitude larger than those for any other recurring hunt, large Mystery Hunt teams often divide into subteams for other hunts. Subteams and naming conventions for subteams should be listed in the "notes" column where relevant.
Active teams[edit | edit source]
| Team Name | Year of Formation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 17th Shard | 2019 | |
| 3 emoji | ||
| ☃︎ | ||
| Amateur Hour | ||
| Ange Management | 2018 | Result of a split from Palindrome |
| BAH Interlopers | ||
| Black Dynamite | ||
| Blob Wizards | late 2019 - early 2020 | |
| Cardinality | 2020 (for MITMH) | |
| Central Services | 2008 | For smaller hunts, makes splinter teams with anagram names like "Scenic Travelers" |
| Codex | 2002-2003? | Team changes name to various different Codices. Has sometimes split into two teams for Mystery Hunt. |
| Control Group | ||
| DAVID ZENG + friends | ||
| Death and Mayhem | 2013 (in current form) | Result of a merger of Death From Above and Project Electric Mayhem |
| Donner Party | ||
| Duck Soup | 2008 | |
| ECs of /r/PictureGame | 2017 | |
| Eggplant Parms | 2018 | Merges with ⛎ UNICODE EQUIVALENCE for Mystery Hunt |
| ET Phone in Answer | 2014 | |
| Frumious Bandersnatch | 2007 | |
| ✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈ | 2011 | Airplanes are pronounced "Whoooosh" and "Nyeoooow", respectively |
| Ghostbloods | 2021 | Merges with 17th Shard for Mystery Hunt |
| Grand Unified Theory of Love | 2008 | |
| Have you tried | 2018 | Subteam of Team Blank Space |
| Herrings | 2016 | Merges with The Providence Transplantations for Mystery Hunt |
| Hunches in Bunches | 2015 | Split-off from Random Hall team |
| Immoral, Illegal, and Fattening | 2004 | Split-off from ACME, competed as "JMac's Birthday Party" for first year |
| Inert Oaken Heron | 2021 | Single person team |
| Keep Puzzling | 2019 | Formed by a group of fans of Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes |
| Killer Chicken Bones | 2009 | |
| Left as an Exercise for the Reader | 2008 | |
| Left Out | 2005 | Team mostly from USA's Pacific "Left" coast |
| Les Gaulois | 2013 | French team (pronounced /lɛ ɡo.lwa/) |
| Libra Complexity | ||
| Literally Animal Farm | 2023 | Split off from Duck Soup |
| Metaphysical Plant | 2003 or earlier | Original Random Hall team |
| MiaoMiaoMiao | 2020 | Mystical Illusion And Originality |
| Mobius Strippers | ||
| NES | 2019 | |
| Occam's Depilatory Gel | 1999 | Intermittently changed name over the years; aliases include: The Family Joules; Shirley! You're Choking Mr. Feynman!; Boson Buddies; The Large Hard-On Collider; Wobbly Hedghog Syndrome. |
| Pluru | Subteam of Death and Mayhem | |
| Palindrome | 1995 | Team changes name to various different palindromes |
| Please Clap | Merges with 17th Shard for Mystery Hunt | |
| Plugh | 2006 | Subteam of Team to be Named Later |
| Pusheen Appreciation Society | 2015 or earlier | |
| QUWUbits | 2023 | Formed by members of UW Quizbowl. Often fields 1-3 smaller teams with "Coby Tran" in team name. |
| QuizzyDan | 2020 | Team formed from QuizzyDan's twitch streams. Often uses DAN as an acrostic in their team names. |
| Rage | 2014 | Team changes name to various puns on the word "rage" |
| Random | 2010 | Newer Random Hall team, formed after Metaphysical Plant |
| Setec Astronomy | 1996 | |
| Small Llama Malls | 2018 | |
| Super Team Awesome | 2007 | |
| Synod | Currently a subteam of ⛎ UNICODE EQUIVALENCE | |
| Team Eagle Time | 2013 | Merges with Death and Mayhem for Mystery Hunt |
| Team To Be Named Later | 2018 | Name has gradually grown longer over time; abbreviated as TTBNL |
| Team Copypasta | 2021 | Merges with Test Solution Bees Ignore for Mystery Hunt |
| Team_Underscore | ||
| Team Unseen | ||
| Teammate | 2015 (for online hunts), 2018 (for MITMH) | Often uses anagrams of TEAM in their team names |
| Test Solution Bees Ignore | 2019 (in current form) | Result of merger of Test Solution Please Ignore and Aviation Laws. Has split into two teams for Mystery Hunt since 2022. |
| The α-betical Order | 2020 | |
| The C@r@line Syzygy | 2019 | Originally a two-person Mystery Hunt team in 2019; reformed as an open team for other hunts in 2021. Has merged into larger teams for Mystery Hunt since 2020, changing hosts nearly every year. |
| The Lexingtons | ||
| The Mathemagicians | 2021 | Team previously known as Team Arithmancy, which evolved from /r/Arithmancy, a Harry Potter puzzle subreddit |
| Team Blank Space | 1996 | This Mystery Hunt team, best known for writing in 2014 (as Alice Shrugged), completely changes their name every year. Due to technical issues, their most recent name cannot be shown as a link; , an invisible Unicode character, was their name for the 2024 Mystery Hunt. |
| The Providence Transplantations | 2011 | |
| The Puzzle Potluck Crew | 2016; 2018 | Subteam of Super Team Awesome |
| Time Vultures | 2011 | Merges with Les Gaulois for Mystery Hunt |
| Track: Coconut Pizza Hut | 2020 | |
| ⛎ UNICODE EQUIVALENCE | 2021 | Largely split from Test Solution Bees Ignore. Often fields smaller teams named for misinterpretations of Unicode characters |
| Up Late | 2000 | |
| [URGENT] | 2019 | Has merged with Test Solution Bees Ignore for Mystery Hunt |
| Vehemence | 2022 | team of ARG/unfiction enthusiasts |
| Weird Lex and the Aladdin Chickenshackers | 2020 | Pandemic team from the Broken Buzzer and Liquid Kourage trivia communities |
| weeklies.enigmatics.org | 2021 | Small team born from a discord community about online riddles |
| Wafflehaüs | 2004 |
Defunct teams[edit | edit source]
| Team Name | Year of Formation | Year of Disbanding | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACME | 1998 | 2003 | Split off from Palindrome under the name Iliaphay, renamed to ACME to run MIT Mystery Hunt 1999. Disbanded after running MIT Mystery Hunt 2003. Partially reformed in 2007 before rejoining Codex. |
| ACRONYM | 2003 | 2006 | |
| ADPhi | 2010 | 2016 | Merged into Frumious Bandersnatch |
| Aviation Laws | 2017 | 2019 (MITMH only) | Merged with Test Solution Please Ignore to form Test Solution Bees Ignore |
| Beginner's Luck | 2009 | 2016 | Disbanded after writing MIT Mystery Hunt 2016; reformed as Team To Be Named Later |
| Death From Above | 2004 | 2013 | Merged with Project Electric Mayhem to form Death and Mayhem |
| Groovytron | 2008 | 2014 | |
| Halibut That Bass | 2020 | 2024 | Spiritual successor to Just for the Halibut. Partially split off from Left as an Exercise for the Reader for MIT Mystery Hunt 2020. Merged with Ange Management for MIT Mystery Hunt 2024. |
| Just for the Halibut | 2008 | 2013 | Split off from Lake Effect Snow. Merged with Left as an Exercise for the Reader for MIT Mystery Hunt 2013. Some members of Just for the Halibut continued to take part in smaller hunts under that name, though there is a second unrelated team also using that name. |
| Lake Effect Snow | 2005 | 2008 | Split into Just for the Halibut and Grand Unified Theory of Love |
| Manic Sages | 2004 | 2013 | Disbanded after writing MIT Mystery Hunt 2013; reformed as Rage |
| Project Electric Mayhem | 2003 | 2013 | Merged with Death From Above to form Death and Mayhem |
| Pturnips | 2003 | 2006 | Reformed as Central Services |
| Silly Hat Brigade | 2007 | 2011 | Merged into Up Late |
| Test Solution Please Ignore | 2014 | 2019 | Merged with Aviation Laws to form Test Solution Bees Ignore |
| The Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb At Midnight | 2006 | 2009 | Disbanded after writing MIT Mystery Hunt 2009 |
