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In my previous post I strived to present puzzlehunts as a very human phenomenon, emphasizing not just the puzzles, but the story and art and production value, the relationships between the people in a team, and the relationships between teams. Of course, puzzlehunts aren’t just about the puzzles. Puzzlehunts have become more and more accessible since the last post I wrote, so it’s a great time to start puzzling! There’s also the excellent DP Puzzlehunt, a puzzlehunt aimed at beginners that introduces a lot of puzzlehunt tropes.

✏️✉️➡️3️⃣5️⃣1️⃣➖6️⃣6️⃣6️⃣➖6️⃣6️⃣5️⃣5️⃣, a puzzle where you had to send text messages to the phone number in the title, a good example of “literally anything could be a puzzle”.

Lime Sand Season, one of the puzzles written last-minute but still ended up being very well-loved.

Relitasti, a charmingly illustrated puzzle about pasta.

At A Loss For Words, a cute minimalist puzzle.

Don’t Let Me Down, the puzzle in this year’s hunt that got the most solves.

Here are some puzzles from this year’s hunt that I think are good introductions: Each puzzle solves to an answer, which is typically some English word or phrase. But the tl dr is that a puzzlehunt is an event where teams compete to solve a series of puzzles. I made a post about last year’s Hunt, which also has an explanation of what a puzzlehunt is, so you can look at that. So your team won the Mystery Hunt What is a puzzlehunt?įirst off.

I accidentally myself into an exec board.

Thanks to ✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈ for reading and giving comments on drafts of this incredibly long post, and Alan for editing.

But I’ll probably neglect several things and overemphasize others, especially parts that I contributed to more. Most of what I’ll be writing about is what others contributed to the Hunt, and I will strive to assign credit where it’s due. I’m granting you the permission to skip every section that looks like it won’t be interesting. Which is everything, including all the dry details that’ll be boring to anyone but me. In the end, I decided that I’m just going to write about everything I’m interested in. Organizing this post was a pain, because the experience of writing a hunt involves so many different things that I’d imagine different people are interested in. This post will contain spoilers for some puzzles, which will be marked.

This post contains spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery Hunt 2021, which are unmarked.