puzzlehunt

Promotional poster for the annual Manbites Dog puzzle hunt

A puzzlehunt is a puzzle game where teams compete to solve a series of puzzles at a particular site, in multiple sites and/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. Some famous annual puzzlehunts are:

• the MIT Mystery Hunt (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA), the first of its kind
• the Microsoft Puzzle Hunt (Redmond, Washington, USA)
• the Miami Herald's Tropic Hunt (Miami, Florida, USA)
• the Maze of Games (Indianapolis, Indiana and Columbus, Ohio, USA)
• the Manbites Dog Theater PuzzleHunt (Durham, North Carolina, USA)
• the Google Puzzle Hunt

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

• The Paperchase at Cambridge University
• PuzzleCrack (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
• UT PuzzleHunt (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
• Melbourne University Mathematics and Statistics Society's Puzzle Hunt (University of Melbourne, Australia)
• PuzzleQuest (Carnegie Mellon University), hosted by Microsoft
• College Puzzle Challenge (Multiple Locations, North America), hosted by Microsoft as a recruiting event on college campuses.

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/LA and CityRace Urban Adventures, both in the Los Angeles area.
• Race In The City (an Amazing Race-style event in Toronto)

Online Puzzlehunts

• Greg Brume's Puzzles & Answers Magazine, Puzzle Boat and Intercoastal Altercations

See also

• Letterboxing
• Geocaching
• Alternate reality game
• Treasure hunt (game)

External links

• GameControl.org - Listing of hunts in south eastern Michigan

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