Puzzle hunt

Promotional poster for the annual Manbites Dog puzzle hunt.

A рuzzlehunt is a puzzle game where teams compete to solve a series of puzzles at a particular site, in multiple sites or via the internet. Groups of puzzles in a puzzle hunt are often connected by a metapuzzle, leading to answers which combine into a final set of solutions.

Puzzle Hunt Events

Some famous annual puzzlehunts are:

• the D.A.S.H. (Different Area Same Hunt) takes place on the same day in multiple cities in the USA using ClueKeeper as the interface.
• the MIT Mystery Hunt (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA),
• the Melbourne University Mathematics & Statistics Society (MUMS) puzzlehunt (Melbourne, Australia),
• the Sydney University Maths Society (SUMS) puzzlehunt (Sydney, Australia),
• the TMOU (Brno, Czech Republic)
• the Microsoft Puzzle Hunt (Redmond, Washington, United States),
• the Miami Herald's Tropic Hunt (Miami, Florida, USA),
• the Washington Post's Post Hunt (Washington, DC, USA),
• the Gen Con Puzzle Hunt (Indianapolis, Indiana, USA),
• Mezzacotta (formerly the Canon Information Systems Research Australia Puzzle Competition) (here).
• The Phish.net Quest puzzle sequence (summary here).
• The Great Puzzle Hunt in Bellingham, WA every April (next event: April 1, 2017)

College puzzlehunts include the aforementioned MIT Mystery Hunt as well as:

• PuzzleCrack (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
• College Puzzle Challenge (Multiple Locations, North America), hosted by Microsoft as a recruiting event on college campuses.
• Palantir's Puzzle Challenge, a recruiting event on multiple campuses hosted by Palantir Technologies
• Google Games, a multi-part competition that usually includes logic puzzles, coding, trivia, and building challenges that utilize materials like LEGO bricks
• APT Puzzle Tournament, a recruiting event on multiple campuses hosted by Applied Predictive Technologies
• Puzzle Hunt, put on every semester by a student organization called PuzzleHuntCMU at Carnegie Mellon University's Pittsburgh, PA campus
• Nova Quest, a campus-wide puzzlehunt organized by the Nova Quest student organization, taking place each spring at Villanova University
• Puzzle Hunt, open to all students and organized by the Rice University IEEE student chapter
• The VT Hunt, an annual puzzlehunt at Virginia Tech that involves both abstract puzzles and physical clues
• Puzzlehunt, a puzzlehunt made annually by the Stanford University Mathematical Organization
• Berkeley Mystery Hunt, a puzzlehunt at UC Berkeley made by The Campus League of Puzzlers

Sometimes, the prize for winning a puzzlehunt is to create the next one.

Related puzzle events

• The Game (a puzzlehunt combined with a road rally)
• Microsoft Puzzle Safari (Redmond, Washington)
• Race In The City (an Amazing Race-style event in Toronto)
• Puzzled Pint (a monthly puzzlehunt aimed at beginner to intermediate teams)
• Prehistoric Puzzlehunt (an annual event at the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, NY) www.priweb.org/puzzlehunt
• Mission Street Puzzles (San Francisco, California)

Puzzle Hunt Event Calendars

• Puzzle Hunt Calendar
• Puzzle Pile Event Calendar

See also

• Letterboxing
• Geocaching
• Alternate reality game
• Treasure hunt (game)
• Geohashing
• Encounter (game)
• La chouette d'or
• The Last of Sheila, a murder mystery film set at a puzzlehunt