teammate
teammate is a team that participates in the MIT Mystery Hunt, as well as other puzzle hunts in smaller groups. The team was formed in 2015 to do online puzzle hunts by a group of MIT students. Since 2018, teammate formed its own team to do the Mystery Hunt, and has placed in the top 10 each time. In 2022, the team won that year's MIT Mystery Hunt, and subsequently hosted the Mystery Hunt in 2023. They also released a followup hunt in June of the same year, Admiral Boötes' Cosmic Discovery Expedition: Further Galaxies. Additionally, teammate has hosted 2 iterations of the Teammate Hunt, first run in 2020.
History[edit | edit source]
The original members of teammate often hunted in Australian-style online hunts, as well as a few local walking hunts, having hunted with each other since 2015. Many of these members were MIT students from the Burton-Conner dorm, which also served as the teammate Mystery Hunt HQ. For MIT Mystery Hunt, most of teammate solved with ✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈ until 2018, eventually splitting to form their own team. The two are currently sister teams, and often have members swap between teams. For the 2018 MIT Mystery Hunt, teammate recruited members from Galactic, incorporating members from PuzzleHunt CMU, Black Fedora Group (centered around Berkeley/Stanford), as well as other non-floorpi members.[1]
For smaller hunts, teammate teams usually include some anagram of TEAM in their name. The team "mascots", Matt Amee and later Emma Tate, were created around 2015, with the names are often used to anonymize team members, and later as main characters in Teammate Hunt. Following the anagram theme, both full names are anagrams of teammate. In 2022, some members of teammate formed a new Mystery Hunt team, Teragram.
Mystery Hunt performances[edit | edit source]
| Hunt | Year | Placement | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 | 2022 | 1st | Won the Hunt. |
| MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 | 2021 | 4th | - |
| MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 | 2020 | 3rd | - |
| MIT Mystery Hunt 2019 | 2019 | 4th | - |
| MIT Mystery Hunt 2018 | 2018 | 10th | - |
Other Hunt performances[edit | edit source]
| Date | Hunt | Rank | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-01 | Huntinality 3 | 1 | as H(erm)ans C(margaret)hristian Anderson |
| 2023-12-01 | Huntinality 3 | 11 | as as i typed the message I realized it had a solid chance of being the team name, but i sent it anyway |
| 2023-07-28 | Shardhunt | 9 | as god METAl |
| 2023-06-02 | ABCDEFG | Host | |
| 2023-05-06 | Microsoft Puzzlehunt 2023 | 27 | as leannEMAThtournament |
| 2022-10-08 | EC Puzzle Hunt 2022 | 12 | as outdoorscamper |
| 2022-10-08 | EC Puzzle Hunt 2022 | 23 | as 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛⬜ |
| 2022-10-08 | EC Puzzle Hunt 2022 | 25 | as ECosysTEM Adventure |
| 2022-08-26 | Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2022 | 2 | as exAM TEsters |
| 2022-06-18 | Huntinality 2022 | 4 | as internET MAnagers |
| 2022-06-18 | Huntinality 2022 | 5 | as We vote for entire messages that people say as team names |
| 2022-06-18 | Huntinality 2022 | 12 | as enigMA TEch |
| 2022-04-15 | Quantum Online Puzzle Hunt | 6 | as haha quantum computer go burrrrrr |
| 2022-04-15 | Quantum Online Puzzle Hunt | 7 | as Alexander Hamiltonian |
| 2022-01-14 | MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 | 1 | |
| 2021-12-18 | Puzzle Rojak 1 | 2 | as i would like to chope a spot near the top of the leaderboard tho |
| 2021-12-04 | Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021 | 2 | as Swim Shaymin (Team ❄️) |
| 2021-12-04 | Silph Puzzle Hunt 2021 | 8 | as pockET MAsters (Team 🔥) |
| 2021-10-01 | Teammate Hunt 2021 | Host | |
| 2021-09-10 | QoDE Puzzle Hunt | 9 | as bATMEn |
| 2021-08-21 | Puzzle Potluck 4 | 3 | as stalk markET MAkers |
| 2021-08-21 | Puzzle Potluck 4 | 7 | as We (mostly) don't even wake up at 9 for work |
| 2021-07-23 | Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2020 | 9 | as Nearsighted, Farsighted, Wherever You Aresighted |
| 2021-07-23 | Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2020 | 10 | as moderATE Myopia |
| 2021-05-29 | Huntinality 2021 | 1 | as substituTE MArio |
| 2021-05-29 | Huntinality 2021 | 21 | as sET MAgnitude |
| 2021-05-29 | Huntinality 2021 | 30 | as megA METeor fam |
| 2021-05-08 | Paradox Puzzle Hunt 2021 | 3 | as concreTE AMbiguity |
| 2021-01-30 | Inexact Puzzle Hunt | 2 | as estiMATE |
| 2021-01-30 | Inexact Puzzle Hunt | 13 | as ceMETAry |
| 2021-01-15 | MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 | 4 | |
| 2021-01-02 | UMD Puzzle Hunt 2021 | 1 | as one of us is not a 🐍 |
| 2021-01-02 | UMD Puzzle Hunt 2021 | 5 | as UntaMeD |
| 2021-01-02 | UMD Puzzle Hunt 2021 | 6 | as educATE Me |
| 2021-01-02 | UMD Puzzle Hunt 2021 | 25 | as 🐱🐱🐱 cAT MEow 🐈🐈🐈 |
| 2020-12-12 | CRUMS Puzzle Hunt 2020 | 2 | as criME ATtorneys |
| 2020-12-12 | CRUMS Puzzle Hunt 2020 | 25 | as exquisiTE MAcarons |
| 2020-10-23 | Teammate Hunt 2020 | Host | |
| 2020-09-18 | DP Puzzle Hunt | 1 | as Speedrun or bust |
| 2020-09-18 | DP Puzzle Hunt | 9 | as A |
| 2020-09-18 | DP Puzzle Hunt | 29 | as E |
| 2020-09-18 | DP Puzzle Hunt | 30 | as M |
| 2020-07-25 | Smogon Puzzle Hunt 2020 | 2 | as gAME Tourists |
| 2020-07-25 | Smogon Puzzle Hunt 2020 | 8 | as ponzi scheME TAnuki |
| 2020-06-20 | Puzzle Potluck 3 | 2 | as hoME AT last |
| 2020-01-17 | MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 | 3 | |
| 2019-08-07 | MUMS Puzzle Hunt 2019 | 29 | |
| 2019-07-20 | Smogon Puzzle Hunt 2019 | 2 | |
| 2019-03-15 | Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2019 | 4 | as cliMATE |
| 2019-01-18 | MIT Mystery Hunt 2019 | 4 | |
| 2018-11-30 | Caltech Puzzle Hunt 2018 | 5 | as clAM TEch |
| 2018-07-02 | SUMS Puzzle Hunt 2018 | 30 | as cinEMATographer |
| 2018-01-12 | MIT Mystery Hunt 2018 | 10 |
