Mystery Hunt 2023

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Our guests

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Excited about puzzles and testing unicode support for 5 years

⬆️🛐

👉👈

course 13 majors are welcome :3

🚀🚀🚀

17th Shard

Fantasy fans and non-fantasy fans alike unite for a worthy cause: puzzles.

2 MINUTES FIGHTERS

Just trying to get that Perfect Ultimate Coin

417 Expectation Failed

Abandon

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

Acai

afocl

🛸 Alien Jazz Harmonica 🛸

Sand, so much sand, sand here and there, sand in the walls, sand in the sky, sand careening, sand in dreams, sand forever and ever, sand becoming sentient, sand solving puzzles, sand baking cookies, sand traveling to distant star systems and befriending alien sand!

Amateur Hour

We are easily distracted.

An Attempt Was Made

Ange Management

Antipodium

Two down and under brothers with a dream.

Arcane Puzzlers 🧩

A group of European puzzle enthusiasts.

Ariadne's Badgerz🧶

Friends and family puzzling for fun in our third hunt. Based virtually from Milwaukee. Playing for the honor and glory of the Great Lakes! 🦙🖖🧶

Assembly of Problem Solvers

Casual AoPS group.

AstroPals

At the beginning

We're at the beginning of the way.

Autocorrekt

While avid puzzle hunters, we've never given the MIT version a whirl, figuring we'd get obliterated. Now we're curious what getting obliterated is like, and just how obliterated we'll be.

B1NERS

we go hard

BAH Interlopers

We are a group of friends primarily in the DC area that first met while working at Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) and bonded over our mutual love of puzzles

Bards of the Sidequest Inn

"Hello? This is the Sidequest Inn. We have an answer to your ad for adventurers. Oh, I have no idea if they are competent; I'm just the barkeep. You have a series of tests for them... like puzzles? For just one coin? Sounds sketchy... they're in"

bean girls

mean girls, on a vegetarian diet

Beast Seniors Detective Team

Beast Seniors Detectives

Belmonsters

A team consisting of people who live in a town called Belmont and also people who do not. 🔔👾

BestBeans

Best Colour: Green, Best Hot Beverage: Coffee, Best Reptile: Turtle, Best NATO Letter: Lima, Best Organ: Kidney, Best Dessert: Jelly, Best Horse Colour: Pinto, Best Title: Mr, Best Name: Sean, Best Synonym for Wide: Broad, Mejor Conjugado de «Ser»: Soy

Big Game Hunters

bird gang

birds together strong

Black Dynamite

What melts in your mouth? M&Ms! Who makes M&Ms? Mars. And Mars is? The Roman god of war! Who is the Greek god of war? Ares! Ares sister is Athena. The capital of Greece. As you all know, zodialogical astronomy was created by the Greeks in 785 BC. 785 is the area code for Topeka!

Blackey

Welcome to The Black Key With Your Honey And Magic

Blistering Barnacles

Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles!

Blue Dragon

blue storm puzzles

Bottem Safetyes

A rag tag bunch of ne’er do wells who like but are not very good at puzzles and mysteries.

Bows Nose Best

We have no idea what we are doing, but Bows definitely nose best.

Boys In A Maze

Br8kout

A group of escape room game masters giving this a shot!!!! Good luck to the other teams!!!;

Braindeathohhotdog

BRD GmbH 7 - Die ganze Republik

we are a wild bunch of chaotic, unorganized, multi-generational fools. Our range stretches across most fields of modern life, STEM, liberal arts, more smart, less smart 🙂

Bundt Force Trauma

A random family from Canada.

Burger and Omelette

We are the Random Hall team, made of current undergrads, cruft, and friends.

caffiends

☕️

Caicos Conundrums

CapricornPH

Cardinality

A team

Central Services

Low-level functionaries escape the monotony of their day-to-day lives through a recurring daydream of themselves as virtuous puzzle-solving heroes. While on a quest to find a mysterious coin, they get caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy, and lies.

ChatGPT

New solvers.

Chiloquin's Heroes

We are Chiloquin's Heroes!

Clueless Goose & Friends

Just a clueless goose (and friends) that likes puzzles.

Codex Tianshu

coded decker cubes all the way down. tantamount to a textual infinite scroll

Control Group

A group of friends who are exactly average at solving Mystery Hunt puzzles

Corvus Ailurus Mus

crazy catz's

variety is the spice of life and for this group, its only chance. we continue to strive and work hard to persevere, to challenge ourselves and successfully complete a puzzle.

Crystal Maiden

Cult of Idiotic Avians

We like birds, also known as government surveillance drones.

✝️🐼DAVID ZENG 251 TA BASTION MAIN RIDDLELORD NEET 'HATES FUN' 42POTATOES CRUCIFIXPANDA ERASMUS ERAMOOSE TIMEBUFFALO EPOCHBISON EONBUCK DURATIONOX YEARDEER 🕓🐂⏳🐃🕰️🦬⏲️🐄⏰🦌 TSUKIHI ARARAGI #1 FAN + friends

We are ✝️🐼DAVID ZENG 251 TA BASTION MAIN RIDDLELORD NEET 'HATES FUN' 42POTATOES CRUCIFIXPANDA ERASMUS ERAMOOSE TIMEBUFFALO EPOCHBISON EONBUCK DURATIONOX YEARDEER 🕓🐂⏳🐃🕰️🦬⏲️🐄⏰🦌 TSUKIHI ARARAGI #1 FAN. And friends.

🌶 dawgs

crossworld puzzlers

Daydrinkers

Death and Mayhem

🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

DECIPHER

Representing https://deciphers.xyz/

Dem Deer

Dem deer dey’re here, den dey’re dere Dey’re here, dey’re dere, dey’re everywhere Dem deer dey’re here, den dey’re dere Dey’re here, dey’re dere, dey’re everywhere

Detective Association of FDU

Just for fun

Detective Association of SJTU

Same as Detective Association of FDU

🦕 Dippy & Friends 🦕

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dippy

Docents of Ancient Nonsense

Caretakers of the finest and silliest artifacts of the ancient world.

Donner Party

A humble group of puzzling pioneers, hunkering down for a hard winter.

Door Game Community

Door Game Community :HHB:

DootDootDootDootDoot

Each year we add a doot to the name - how many doots can we reach before the heat death of the universe?

duck

Duck Soup

Really "Duck Soup and Friends" at heart.

Elsbels

Endless Pastabilities

Enigmatik

We are just a group of "try hard"/"fail easy".

Escape Effect

An escape room team made up of developers and hosts who love puzzles!

ET Phone in Answer

Exhibit Curators of r/PictureGame

Congratulations, that was the correct answer! It's your turn to post the next hunt - please continue the hunt within 1 year. A few tips: I've DM'd you a link to submit your hunt with the correct title. Make sure your hunt can't be solved using Reverse-Image-Search (RIS).

Fallout Shelter

IN CASE OF APOCALYPSE

Fire Chickens 🔥🐔🧩

I'm not expecting us to get more than like 5% through the puzzle hunt, if that. We're not here to win, we're not here to compete, we're just going to be there. We'll probably have really good snacks.

Fishterious Mysterfishies

Flamingo Bellagio

We're just here for fun!

Flooded Kitchen

French Fries

with a Sprinkle of Salt and Pepper

Frumious Bandersnatch

We are a moderately sized team started in 2007, full of Theta Xi alums, Burton Conner alums, and various other friends and coworkers accumulated over the years. We're an easy-going, goofy team who like to have fun, but ideally want to see the whole Hunt. Callooh callay!

fstock96

Fuecoco

Fuecoco evolves into Crocalor starting at level 16, which evolves into Skeledirge starting at level 36.

Furious Acorns

✈✈✈ Galactic Trendsetters ✈✈✈

A Mystery Hunt team loosely affiliated with floorpi (a hall in East Campus) and Yew Labs (a group at MIT's Ilvak Institute).

Geniucez

GET BODIED

Global Gaming Annex Alliance

The Muskegon Gaming Annex is a modern day Cheers, reimagined as a board game clubhouse. Our virtual alliance, like our physical counterpart, welcomes gamers from all walks of life.

goldman sagcts

Grad Unified Theory

We are a second-year team made mostly of MIT graduate students, and operating physically out of Ashdown House. All team-unaffiliated grad students are welcome to join (as well as anyone else who's interested)!

Grand Unified Theory of Love

Green Bean Plants

gummy worms

GUTS

Iowa boys that like solving puzzles

Halibut That Bass

Halibut That Bass (ca. 2020, mixed media) / Captain's statement: This work is intended to transcend the duality of sense and nonsense inherent in enigmatic pursuits, with an emphasis on creating a welcoming environment for solvers of all backgrounds.

Here for the Memes

Hext

HighFive

High School Students

We are a group of high schoolers interested in the MIT puzzle hunts.

Honkerino Poggerino

We are the honks

Hopping with Scissors

Hunches in Bunches

hunters

Imaginary Numbers

Immoral, Illegal & Fattening

Just a group of people who've been hunting for over 500 years (added together).

I'm not a planet either

I'm not a planet either. Are you?

Infinaut

Inter Oves Locum Praesta

We play (and some of us organise) a somewhat similar game in Russian: https://interoves.com

it could be fun

now with tiny baby

joker

duo who is looking to win

Just Ritz

King of the Bus

kwargers

Ladder Dogs

Woof!

Lardcakes

Left as an Exercise for the Reader

A small little team, perpetually divided based on a loathing hatred (or love) of mushrooms.

Left Out

Left Out is a group of veteran Gamers primarily split between the two coasts. Despite our best efforts, we seem to get older every year. How does that keep happening?

Les Gaulois

Libra Complexity

harvey mudd college students, alumni, and friends

Lighter Lickers 🔥🔥🔥

Livin' Covida Loca

lnvech

If you hesitate for inexplicable curiosity and sense of justice, you may lose everything. Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.

Lobster Mob

Ain't no laws if ya got claws

Lowellites

The Lowell High School team from San Francisco, playing virtually (for now)!

Luigi’s Death Stare

A remote team solving (mostly) out of MInneapolis/St. Paul.

Lustin Djinn

ඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞ

Madness

Started out in Arkansas now we're here

ManateeM

Manatees are known for being intelligent and curious animals. They are often spotted playing with objects in the water, and some scientists believe that they are able to solve puzzles.

Mango likes boops

Group of novices :)

Marvelous Riddles

Math Nerds

we are math nerds.

M de Treville and the Musketeers

Memeing Conglomerate

Metaphysical Plant

Man is a spiritual animal, we are Metaphysical Plant

method

Methods of Rationality

Mighty Demons

MIT University Band

Puzzling for the 6th year now!

Mooncake is the cutest cat

Most Intelligent Tigers

Third times the charm, right? We're a globally scattered team of internet friends, thankful for the fully remote hunt option!

MUNey Moves

ICMUN attempts to puzzle from across the Charles.

Mystaswitch

A group of work colleagues who had no idea what they were letting themselves in for in 2021 but are starting to run out of excuses...

🦉Mystery Hoot🦉

*hoot hoot*

Mystery Hunting with Henri

Mythbutters

Jemi and Adem and friends

Nam Iridum

NaN

Not a Number.

nerd-immunity

NES

A confederation of novice and veteran puzzlers hailing from Next House, happy to be back, and hoping to find the Coin, but ᴏɴʟʏ ᴀғᴛᴇʀ sᴏᴍᴇʙᴏᴅʏ ᴇʟsᴇ ᴅᴏᴇs ғɪʀsᴛ.

neuromology

a collection of academics, mostly BU comp-neuro, with some MIT ties and interest in puzzles. 4th time joining

nice pants 🎄🎅

Night at the Museum

Noobs

We are noobs

Nope

Norians

NullPointerException

We're bad.

Occam's Depilatory Gel

Formed in 1309 in Surrey

Off In The Lab

Solving and being solved since 2016

Oinkment

Members of the porcine dermatological ward.

Om Nom Nom Nom

OM NOM NOM NOM!

On Search

Libraries staff and friends, standing by to put missing materials on search since 2020.

Orb Ponderers

A coalition of Wizards, Witches, Sorcerers and the like gathered for one purpose: Pondering that Orb.

Palindrome

AKA Ten-Alpaca Planet. We wrote last year's Hunt. Engage le jeu que je le gagne!

Pan-Galactic Goose Syndicate

Panther Puzzlers

Parsley, Rage, Rosemary, and Thyme

Formerly 404 Rage Not Found, Non-Abelian Rage Theory, This Rage Intentionally Left Blank, Exit Rage Left (Pursued by a Bear), (Still Just A) Cat in a Rage, Rage of Aquarius, and some things involving warehouses.

Party Wizards

here for a good time

🐱 Pet The Catloe 🐱

Pet The Catloe!

Piecefully Puzzled 😇🤔🧩

Plane Tickets are Expensive

In 2017, a group of MIT alumni decided to hunt remotely because plane tickets are expensive. In 2023, we continue to hunt remotely. You could say we were into remote hunting before it was cool.

ℙoNDeterministic

Puzzlers of No Distinction

poot?

alligator duck

Press X To Doubt

A sentient fork of the ChatGPT agent (and its human QA testers) dedicated to extracting structure from enigmatic puzzles. Do you question our accuracy?

Providence Planned Vacations

The Providence team first hunted together in 2011 and has since has grown well beyond the confines of The Ocean State. We play to finish.

PRpuzzleclub

Puzzkill

Eight years ago a crack team was sent to Mystery Hunt for a puzzle crime they didn't commit. They promptly escaped from a maximum-security intro round to the Baltimore underground. Today, they survive as solvers of fortune. If you have a puzzle, maybe you can hire: Puzzkill.

Puzzle Gang

The Puzzle Gang is a collective creating challenges, puzzles, and games. https://puzzlegang.io/

Puzzling Friends Flummoxed Together

Understaffed and inexperienced since 2021

QBs

🧩🧩🧩🪙 🪙 🪙 🔥🔥🔥

Quarantine Decrypters

Team of puzzlers formed over the pandemic, third year hunting in MIT, looking to improve our past placements!

Quiz Quiztofferson

Race For Wool

We are racing for the wool

Radioactive thesis

Lazy.Nothing here.

Rain Gang

A group of non-MIT affiliated people playing casually

RatoLibre🐘🐘🐘

Raucous Raucous Rhinos

We're raucous, we're rhinos, we're still raucous. That about covers it.

Ready to Eat Apricots

Relatively Theoretical Constructs

A group of international solvers, but don't let that fool you. We're not in it to win it; we want to improve ourselves year after year and have a fun, accessible hunt for all!

Resistant to Nail Polish

Richie Bear

Richie Bear. Richie Bear. Richie Bear? Richie Bear.

Ring My Bell

Sabotages

Secret Bunker

IN CASE OF APOCALYPSE

Sennin

I'm sincerely sorry for the ping

Setec Astronomy

we write puzzles, we solve puzzles, we age at the standard rate

shipit-parrot.gif

Shower Pomelo 🍈

A basket of tropical fruit-loving solvers.

Sig Fig Delta

NU's very own award-winning, washed-up Husky Hunt Team

Singles Ready to Stay Inside

Singles Ready to Stay Inside was born when residents of MacGregor (hence singles) E entry preferred not to leave the nice warm lounge. We have now welcomed friends and significant others (not so single anymore!).

Sleipnir's Wranglers

We're a casual puzzling team just looking to have a good time.

Sloopertroop

Slowpokes

Slow and steady enjoys the race!

Small Llama Malls

Founded in 2018 by Kevin Carde, Andrew Lin, and Emily Morgan to "have fun and solve puzzles". Committed to finishing the Hunt each year (even if takes until June). Avoid Big Box Camelid Retailers--this Hunt, bring your business to Small Llama Malls!

Smung Institute

Uncontrollable Intelligence

Special Task Force: Unicorn

Spicy Pecans

pika alums from 2018ish

Spore Giant

Remote team based in Singapore, with members all around the globe

STAR RATS

STENTDOCS

STEP Lab

STEP Lab!

St Ignatius

An MIT alum, his brother and friend, and possibly classmates in grad school at Boston College

Stooth Moves

Stressful Shapes

🐀🐣

String Cheese Theory

The stringiest of cheeses; the cheesiest of theories

Stumped and Furious

Sufficiently Large N

yeet

Sugondese University Cryptology Club

Supernova Studio

Super Team Awesome!

Scrumptious Taco Assortment

tableflip

tacocopter 🌮🚁

Casual puzzlers

Taskforce Earth

We are the TE problem.

Tc

Going solo

Team 3734

Chemists, Bioengineers, and Mathematicians decide to pick up Puzzling.

Team Constructed Adventures

Adventure builders, experience designers, and puzzle crafters. Come say hi, we'd be happy to help you build something special!

Team Conundrum

Small team of geocaching friends

teammate

Team of Davids

Team Panda

A team of pandas who love puzzle solving

Team Plaid Thong

Group of players originally from Albany, NY and now spread around the country.

Team Rebellion

Remote team based in the UK - loosely the crew of narrowboat Rebellion, and friends

Test team

Tetacetera

That's Water, I Wear a Disguise

Formerly Pass the Pigs Big Pigs Big Pig Heart Girth, formerly I Am Grootchador … In Bed, formerly I Am Grootchador, formerly Eat My Shortz

The Avengers

Just some friends trying to get more than one puzzle right

The Bad Acids

We just wanna be included in the puzzles

The Builders' Guild

A group of relatively new puzzle hunters that is much better at writing detailed hint requests than actually solving puzzles.

The Cheese

The Donut Inside The Donut

The Ginkgo Gumshoes

Will Engineer Organisms For Hints

The Girlz and otherz

A group of friends got together for the same love of room escape and ventured forward for the unthinkable Mystery Hunt

The Gr88 Ones

Puzzle-loving classmates from that school up the river

The Intermittent Puzzlers

We puzzle, sometimes.

The Lexingtons

Not "The "The Lexingtons"", different Lexingtons from the other other Lexingtons. We aren't "The "The Lexingtons"", we're "The Lexingtons".

The Mathemagicians

We're an open discord based team, previously known as Team Arithmancy! A mix of experience levels from all around the world, and always welcome to new solvers!

The MIT Mystery Hunt ✅

This is a legacy verified account. It may or may not be notable.

The Most Serene Republic of Dan Marino

The New Lunar Republic

For the glory of the moon! We love the moon because it's close to us!

The Pi’d Pipers

3.14 novice puzzle hunters putting their heads in a circle to coax answers out of the wilderness.

The Playfair Fair Players

The Puzzledome

There can be only one

The Rum Swizzlers 🍹

Solving puzzles from the middle of the Atlantic since 2019

The Team Formerly Known as the Team Formerly Known as the Team Formerly Known as the Team Formerly Known as the Team Formerly Known as the Team to Be Named Later

Very friendly to new solvers and happy to have you join us! We'll get around to writing the rest of this bio sometime, probably.

The "The Lexingtons"

Not "The Lexingtons", different Lexingtons from the other other Lexingtons. We aren't "The Lexingtons", we're "The "The Lexingtons"".

The TSBI Hive

The casual division of TSBI, bee ready for many solutions to bee ignored.

The TSBI Swarm

🐝🐝 Buzz Buzz! 🐝🐝 The TSBI Swarm is the competitive division of Test Solution Bees Ignore! For the casual division, go check out The TSBI Hive!

The V in V3 stands for 5

The α-betical Order

Awesome bunch created dubiously, especially featuring great humans. In January, knowing labyrinthine museum needs observation, potentially questionable riddle solvers together unite!... Victory was X-ed yesterday. Zebra.

Tinkers' Hollow

[title of team]

TNEL

Trapped in Nourishment

Beginner-Intermediate team based in Toronto

Tree Creepers

Ultimate Brownies

⛎ UNICODE EQUIVALENCE

Unseen

Are we a university of wizards on the back of a giant turtle? No, we're a moderate-sized team, hunting together since 2005, with members on four continents (!). But we do have a Librarian. (Ook.)

Up a stump

Up Late

I think the team name says it all. But maybe not as accurately as it used to.

Vaguely Eloquent Team

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PH4E2zx8gg

Vegetable dog

Veni Vidi Wiki

Vexed and Perplexed

V. M. Varga

Wäfflehaus

Proud puzzlers of the most porous place on the planet!

Waldo's Pride

we are elephants

We Don't Give a Duck About Winning

Weird Lex & The Aladdin Chickenshackers

weliketopuzzle

We puzzled our way through the pandemic, and now its time to test our skills with the ultimate challenge: THE MIT PUZZLE HUNT LFG!!!!!

We're newcomers🤯

To make a question is to win ! ! !

We Tried And Therefore Nobody Can Criticize

We're gonna do our best

WicketSmaht🐈🧠

"Can we be put with smart ppl?"

windowsvista

Winter Rats

Wolf Chalice Lodge

Just a couple of puzzle enjoying goofballs with no MIT connects. Yes, we’re the team that found the mystery hunt from the internet!