Articles About Hunt

Mystery Hunt is often covered by various press outlets and bloggers. We have attempted to collect links to some of that coverage here. Please let us know if any of the links are broken, or if you know of other stories about Mystery Hunt that should be linked from here.

Lewis Chen maintains a spreadsheet of Hunt writeups.

2020

• Pancakes, Euphoria, and a Robot Parade: Inside MIT's Grueling Puzzle Competition by Kate Morgan, Popular Mechanics, March 2020

2018

• Can You Stay Awake For 50 Hours And Solve 150 Puzzles? by Oliver Roeder, FiveThirtyEight, January 2018
• Setec Astronomy Wins 2018 Hunt by Tu-Lan Vu-Han, The Tech, January 2018

2017

• Death and Mayhem wins Mystery Hunt by Isabelle Phinney, The Tech, January 2017
• The MIT Mystery Hunt: A Documentary by Tom Buehler, January 2018

2016

• Puzzlers contend for top spot at Huntception by Vivian Zhong, The Tech, January 2016

2014

• The Thrill of MIT's Mystery Hunt by S.I. Rosenbaum, Boston Magazine, January 2014
• Mystery Hunt coin found in Courtyard by William Navarre, The Tech, January 2014

2013

• Manic Sages prepare 2013 MIT Mystery Hunt puzzles by Janelle Mansfield, The Tech, January 2013
• A Hunt of Epic Proportions by Stan Gill, The Tech, January 2013
• Unraveling the Enigma - MIT Mystery Hunt 2013, The Tech, January 2013
• 2013: The Year the Mystery Hunt Broke by Thomas Snyder, Wired, January 2013

2012

• 'Manic Sages' steal the show! by Janelle Mansfield, The Tech, January 2012
• Behind the Scenes of the 2012 MIT Mystery Hunt by Michael Andersen, Wired, June 2012

2011

• Aha!, by Billy Baker, The Boston Globe, January 2011.
• Codex wins Hunt in 42 hours, by Evan Moore, The Tech, January 2011.

2010

• Metaphysical Plant Takes Home Coin in Annual MIT Mystery Hunt, by Margaret Cunniff, The Tech, January 2010.

2009

• ‘Beginner’s Luck’ Wins 63-Hour Mystery Hunt, by Pearle Lipinski, The Tech, January 2009.

2008

• In Annual Hunt, Murder Mystery Challenges Institute Puzzle Buffs, by Elijah Jordan Turner, The Tech, January 2008.

2007

• 326: Quiz Show, by Lisa Pollak, This American Life, February 2007.
• Sleepless Puzzle-Solvers Hunt For Coin, by JiHye Kim, The Tech, January 2007.

2006

• Mystery Hunt 2006 (PDF, Page 11), photos by Omari Stephens, The Tech, January 2006.

2005

• Mystery Hunters Studiously Defeat Evil in Normalville, by Kelley Rivoire, The Tech, January 2005.

2004

• Setec Astronomy Wins French Armada’s Mystery Hunt, Sixty-Eight Hour Hunt Longest Game in Recent Memory, by Marissa Vogt, The Tech, January 2004.

2003

• Take the Blue Pill, Wake Up in Bed; Take the Red Pill, Stay in 2003 Hunt, by Marissa Vogt, The Tech, January 2003.

2001

• Team Finds Witch's Stone To Win 2001 Mystery Hunt (PDF), by Ashley M. Ramsey, The Tech, January 2002.

2000

• 20th [sic] Mystery Hunt Offers Puzzlers a Chance to Show Their Stuff, by Katie Jeffreys, The Tech, January 2000.

1991

• The Great Annual MIT Mystery Hunt, by Eric Albert, Games Magazine, July 1991.

1985

• Several IAP Activities Challenge Participants, by Charles R. Jankowski, The Tech, February, 1985.