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.

One sending a zoom link crossword clue