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List of Past MFA[edit | edit source]
This is a list of previously featured articles on the Main Page, in reverse chronological order.
- August 2024: Funny farm
- June 2024: Unlock Juice
- February 2024: CCBC
- September 2023: CMU Puzzle Hunt
- February 2023: Bravo Awards 2021
- December 2022: Moon Type
- September 18, 2022: Red Herring
- July 23, 2022: Huntinality 2022
- April 22, 2022: CMU Puzzle Hunt
- April 8, 2022: Quantum Online Puzzle Hunt
- March 9, 2022: EnigMarch
- February 16, 2022: MIT Mystery Hunt 2022
List of Past MFS[edit | edit source]
This is a list of previously featured series.
- February 2024 - Template:Resources Sidebar
- September 2023 - Template:Logic Puzzle Sidebar
- February 2023 - Template:Presentation Sidebar
- November 2022 - Template:Logic Puzzle Sidebar
Did You Knows[edit | edit source]
This is a list of all facts that have appeared in past DYKs.
August 2024[edit | edit source]
- ...that Microsoft Puzzle Hunt first used gph-site to host their puzzlehunt in 2023?
- ...that Edric's DUAL Hunt has the largest number of puzzles of all hunts run on Edric's website so far?
- ...that Shardhunt is a direct follow-up to a smaller hunt hosted on a Discord server?
- ...that CCBC used to stand for Cipher & Code Bar Competition because of its association with Baidu Cipher Bar?
- ...that when only using 1s and 0s, an ASCII number has the same English letter encoding as the last five digits of the same ASCII number written in binary?
May 2024[edit | edit source]
- ...that in-person attendees at kickoffs have been given parts of physical puzzles during both puzzlehunts run by Brown Puzzlehunt?
- ...teams partaking in CMU Hunt Fall 2023 get one more hour to solve puzzles than in CMU Hunt Spring 2024?
- ...that Arroword crosswords are also referred to as Swedish-styled crosswords?
- ...that the title of Puzzle Rojak partially came because the authors liked rojak, a salad dish from Indonesia?
- ...that user CoreyPlover created the initial List of Puzzle Hunts in February 2022?
February 2024[edit | edit source]
- ...that Unlock Juice units for unlocking puzzles include sin, chutzpah, cookies, and JUICE?
- ...that some of the members behind MiaoHunt 2023 created a puzzlehunt calendar for Chinese puzzlehunts?
- ...that Slitherlink boards that use identical regular polygons can only use triangles, quadrilaterals, or hexagons?
- ...that the 49ers have appeared in a title of a puzzle in the MIT Mystery Hunt but not the Chiefs?
- ...that if one were to spend 30 seconds talking about each puzzle in MIT Mystery Hunt 2022, the total talking time would be over 1.5 hours?
September 2023[edit | edit source]
- ...that the word Rebus comes from the Latin for 'of things'?
- ...that the 1997 MIT Mystery Hunt contained the first Fakeout theme in MITMH history?
- ...that puzzles that involve Recursion may contain puzzles that involve Recursion which may contain puzzle that...
- ...that over 10 blogs, podcasts and streamers primarily cover puzzlehunts?
- ...that user Leveloneknob has created over 100 puzzle element pages?
December 2022[edit | edit source]
- ... that P&A Magazine has over 100 issues?
- ... that Palindrome registers for each MIT Mystery Hunt under a different palindrome?
- ... that community member Edric writes and hosts three different types of hunt?
- ... that between articles and administration, user phenomist has created over 300 new pages?
- ... that the term eigenletters originates from a puzzle in Teammate Hunt 2020?
December 2022[edit | edit source]
- ... that The MIT Mystery Hunt has been running annually since 1981?
- ... that Test Solution Bees Ignore splits into two teams for the MIT Mystery Hunt, the competitive 'Swarm' and the beginner-friendly 'Hive'?
- ... that Galactic Puzzle Hunt is an annual puzzle hunt run by ✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈?
- ... that this wiki was started by community member Emma Liddell?
- ... that the puzzle type TEAMWORK TIME got its name from a series of puzzles from the 2020 MIT Mystery Hunt?
Procedure for updating MFA/MFS[edit | edit source]
Add a new blurb / template under Template:This Month's featured article/September 2024. Use the next month if the current month is already scheduled. Additionally, update Template:This Month's featured article/Default to point to the most recent blurb. (In all occurrences, replace article with series for updating the featured series.)
