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We are a small team from the Davidson Academy of Reno, Nevada.

17th Shard

Fantasy fans and non-fantasy fans alike unite for a worthy cause: puzzles. (And space!)

2 MINUTES FIGHTERS

Able to focus only in 2 minute intervals

2OldE West Coast

AAA Pulang tomb material antique wholesale

Aback

a cup of sea

we are a cup of sea

afocl

Alexander Jin

Amateur Hour

We're by far the greatest team operating out of our local cafe. (Actually, to be safe, let's say one of the two greatest.)

An Attempt Was Made

Ange Management

Hilarity will ensue or there will be consequences!

Antipodium

A familial Down Under team 🇦🇺🦘

Aorist

Applied Primate Sentinels

Megaforce Sentinels and members of Applied Primate Engineering doing a remote hunt

Arcane Puzzlers 🧩

A group of European puzzle enthusiasts.

Argentum

Ariadne's Badgerz🧶

Friends and Family puzzling together for fun and the glory of the Great Lakes!

Assembly of Problem Solvers

👾 Astro Cats 👾

⭐ AstroPals ⭐

b1ners

b3av3rs

baa baa black sheep

jover sheep

Babies

Some babies from MIT

BAH Interlopers

A group of friends with loose MIT affiliation that met and started puzzling together while working for Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH)

Bateaux Mouches

beangirls

Belmonsters

A team made up of people living in places called Belmont and also people who do not live in places called Belmont.

BestBeans

beans

Big Game Hunters

Binary Search Tree

We all love jonathan

bingo bango bongo

birthday cabin

trying our best

Biskik Panquakes

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!

Blufius

Boat

Bobasaurs

Bug really cruising down brook on one pontoon smiling with son in law

bugs🐛🐞

Bunnies are cute

🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇

caffiends

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Caltech Puzzle Club

γδβγ

CAM

Two guys from brazil.

Cambalache

Argentinian team looking to find a challenge

🪿🪿🪿canadian geese🪿🪿🪿

Cardinality

Central Services

Low-level bureaucrats 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.

charls rivian

Checkers

Chickalini’s Staff

Serving chicken spaghetti and sloppy steaks since 2019.

chicken

Chiloquin's Heroes

We're Chiloquin's Heroes!

Chrono Questers

Solving for fun

Codex Florentino

Aztec ode to mysterious calendrical experience. Spherically triggered and home system stuck

Codex Florentino (Duplicate Registration)

The delicious taste of ancient paper you've come to know and love since 2002 and before!

Colorado Pub Trivia All-Stars

Small, remote, team. In it for the lulz.

Control Group

A group of local friends

Corvus Ailurus Mus

Cramily <3

the real mystery is the friends we made along the way

Cricket and Crosswords

An MIT alum and his brother and friend

Crystal Maiden

Cucumber

Cyfur

A bunch of wild animals from China try their best to do puzzles.

david team

DAVID ZENG 251 TA BASTION MAIN 🎉NOT A NEET🎉 🚎RB.GY/6QV6Q🚎 🐟RB.GY/55Q9P🐟 42POTATOES CRUCIFIXPANDA ERASMUS ERAMOOSE TIMEBUFFALO EPOCHBISON YEARDEER 🕓🐂⏳🐃🕰️🦬 TSUKIHI ARARAGI #1 FAN + friends

We are DAVID ZENG 251 TA BASTION MAIN 🎉NOT A NEET🎉 🚎RB.GY/6QV6Q🚎 🐟RB.GY/55Q9P🐟 42POTATOES CRUCIFIXPANDA ERASMUS ERAMOOSE TIMEBUFFALO EPOCHBISON YEARDEER 🕓🐂⏳🐃🕰️🦬 TSUKIHI ARARAGI #1 FAN. And friends.

🌶 dawgs

Crossworld Puzzlers

Daydrinkers

Death and Mayhem

DECIPHER

DECIPHER Representation

Destroying All Nebulae

A group of puzzlers that met through QuizzyDan’s Twitch streams of Puzzle Boat, Cryptic Crosswords and puzzley video games. https://www.twitch.tv/quizzydan (Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8pm GMT)

dog ears

Testing for puzzle hunts generally

Donner Party

An intrepid band with an insatiable hunger for puzzles.

Don't Worry Be Happy

Just a coupla weirdos procrastinating on more important work. Glad to be here

Door Game Community

we hope to solve 1 more puzzle than last year

dootdootdootdootdoot

dootdoot

DoubleTrouble

DPOGJEFOU

Duck Soup

Longtime team with a casual leaning and open membership, an assortment of puzzlehunt enthusiasts with varying levels of experience, founded by some MIT students (now alums). We mostly hunt remotely, and also do some smaller hunts.

echovo!!

En Pe🦢nt

Local Greater Boston area puzzlers

Eternal Rebirth Base

Ethereal C@nstell@tions of /r/PictureGame

Exploring the cosmos with astronaughts and cracking the cryptic syzygies

ET Phone in Answer

exploding kittens

Fantastic Four

Fermat’s Monkeys

We are Fermat’s Monkeys

Fishterious Mysterfishies

Flamingo Bellagio

Here for fun!

French Fries 🍟

Crispy!

Fresh

Frumious Bandersnatch

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” He chortled in his joy. A medium-sized team formed by Theta Xi in 2007, now composed of weird alums and friends having a good time and trying to solve all the puzzles.

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

GodFather Universe

Start Fantastic Journey Discovering The Unexplored Universe

Grad Unified Theory

We are a 2-year old team based out of MIT's graduate dorms which serves as an open-invite team to MIT students in general, but especially MIT graduate students. We'll be puzzling out of a home base in Sidney-Pacific Graduate Residence this year.

Grand Unified Theory of Love

We're here to have fun and solve puzzles

Gravity Plus Velocity

anonymous peacock

Halpins'R'Us

Just a buncha folks (some of which happen to be related) that love puzzles

🐹 hamsterdam 🦫

how many hamsters would it take to build the hoover dam? show your work

👒🏞️ hat creek outfit 👔🤠

Here to drive cattle, solve puzzles, and save the world

hello hello hello

HighFive

👋

Highschoolers+

High School Puzzlers

Hodgepodge

Hunches in Bunches

Hype House

i caro-kan't do puzzles

I don’t like this one

Let’s try another one

I Don't Understand the Question and I Won't Respond to It

Formerly That's Water, I Wear a Disguise, formerly Pass the Pigs Big Pigs Big Pig Heart Girth, formerly I Am Grootchador … In Bed.

iHouse

iHouse residents at MIT!

iloveiloveegg

Our mission is to introduce clean images of eggs with transparent backgrounds to the world.

Imitation gamers

Cantabistas

Immoral, Illegal & Fattening

The law firm of II&F has been hunting as a team since 2004, and has won every year except 2019. We will defend anything: no sin too small, no broken law too minor, no dessert too rich.

I'm not a planet either

I'm not a planet either. Are you?

intangled

inter oves locum praesta

Interrobang

We're confused, but we're excited about being confused.

isblueacolor

Is it too late?

it could be fun

we have at least one baby

i think i broke the email and this is just a test to see if it works again

Jesup

Dark Williams College

JHAL

Jibini

Joat

small team of Rice alums (virtual)

Joined with another team...

joy_cat

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J. Pennis & the Gumshoe Gang

"This city's a puzzle, and we're the pieces that fit. Gumshoe Gang's on the job—tough, smart, relentless. Puzzles, watch out. Justice is coming, see?"

just for fun

Justj

just looking（uwu）

Just Ritz

kellanandtheotherguys

It's Kellan and the other guys.

Kgirl

King of the Bus

Kombilösen

k-on

放课后ティータイム

Kowalski Analysis

dON'T lET tHEM mOVE yOUR nEXT kNOW

kwargers

L8RGAY2Rz

we late & gay

LA Bender

Ladder Dogs

Lala

Laplaces Angel

puzzle? puzzle.

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 mostly harmless bunch of grizzled old puzzle veterans. We used to be with it, but then they changed what “it” was. Now what we’re with isn’t it, and what’s it seems weird and scary to us. It’ll happen to you…

Les Gaulois

Ils sont fous ces Romains.

lettuce heads but just alex and maybe (probably) evan + jonah and maybe even others

ok so like the lettuce heads but alex made it and maybe other people do it or don't we play fortnite together

Libra Complexity

harvey mudd college students, alumni, and friends

Lil stoop

Literally Animal Farm

jor jor wel

Livin' Covida Loca

Lobster Mob

Ain't no laws if ya got claws

logan's secret team

loneseomeGoose

Just a goose.

Look look problems

Lowellites

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

Luigi's Death Stare

A small remote-only team, primarily based in Minneapolis/St. Paul who just enjoy puzzles!

Lustin Djinn

Macaroni Rascals

madness

Small but scrappy non-competitive team mostly made up of Midnight Madness (Hot Springs, Arkansas) veterans and their friends and families.

Magic & Interstellar Travels

在这个系列的 puzzle hunt 里，芈雨和觅月会尝试在于星辰间穿梭翱翔，踏上充满着奇迹与魔法的崭新旅程。

ManateeM

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Mango likes boops

Mango 🥭 doggo

Mavericks

Im so clueless rn i swear (Not a great start for a puzzle solver)

Maxwell Rose

McCormick (and frens)

McCormick Hall (+ frens!)

meow

Meow 🐱

We like cats

meowmeow

Metaphysical Plant

The people behind the scenes keeping the metaphysics up and running

Minecraft But It's The MIT Mystery Hunt

Mister Ragers' Neighborhood

Formerly Parsley Rage Rosemary and Thyme, 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.

MIT brought me here❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Monsieur de Tréville and The Musketeers

Most Intelligent Tigers

banandicoots? more like banandicutes amirite?

MSFTNo.1

Mystaswitch

A team formed of Microsoft UK employees and friends

Nam Iridum 🌈

A very small team of casual puzzlers in Raleigh, NC

NES

Ninety eggs suffices. Need extra? Sorry.

NIW OT YALP EW

we play to win.

Nope

A group of friends!

Northern Pikes

NoSolves

First MIT Hunt

now 👇 let's 💢🙏 try this 🅿 garlic naan. it's paper 🤓📝 thin. 💃💃 [BITE]. 👄 that 😅☝ seasoning is 👌 OUT 😥 OF 🤤 THIS WORLD. 👌

MY TASTE BUDS 👅 HAVE BEEN 👊 🦾 VIOLATED ❎ 🔞 . That should be a 🔨 ⛪ CRIME. That- I- 👁️ I'm tweakin.

NullPointerException

how are we so bad

Numeral Numeric Numbers

Obscura

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Occam's Depilatory Gel

Off in the Lab

We are a small, low pressure team of experienced puzzlers. We plan to solve some of the puzzles, but we're unlikely to solve all of the puzzles.

Om Nom Nom Nom

OM NOM NOM NOM

One Hint Wonder

One-puzzle Wonder

We're a new team with a goal of solving one puzzle.

Only Captain Doesn't Play Maj-Soul

As a Chinese team, CCBC13 92nd place, Miaohunt 81st place, but failed in GalacticPH and Huntinality III, just try to fail againXD

On Search

Librarians and friends putting missing materials on search since 2020.

oogichacha

Orb Ponderers

Order of Magnitude

Order of Random Puzzlers

Palindrome

Engage Le Jeu Que Je Le Gagne! Well, not Le Gagne, but we definitely want to see the whole thing.

Pancakes and Trouble

PanGalactic Goose Syndicate

Originally from Waterloo, Ontario, we have flocked to other galactic meadows.

Pennys

Collecting coins since '22

PFFT

Phillips Power

Hope to solve at least one puzzle this time!

Placid before the storm

Plane Tickets are Expensive

MIT alumni who want to hunt but don't want to pay for plane tickets!

Platonic Liquids

In the flow state of a partially-melted ice-cosahedron.

Pointless Topologists

ℙoNDeterministic

ℙ

potato snowman

Pretty Little Puzzlers

Purple Hays

A small team of staunch Jim Hays supporters, organized by Peter the purple-lover.

Puzzkill

Nine 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 Buddies

A couple of London-based puzzle nerds give it their best shot

Puzzle Gang - puzz around and find out

We're an international group of puzzlers - we drop (nearly) daily puzzles on our website https://puzzlegang.org/ and have fun and nonsense on our Discord too (https://discord.gg/VBTKjhYB)

puzzlemasters

gaylor truthers

Puzzly and Wild

Puzzly and wild.

QD

Quarantine Decrypters

just a group of people who were bored in lockdown and starting puzzling

Queue<T>s

Quiz Quiztofferson

rahoi's renegades

middle-aged software engineers

Rain Gang

Raucous Raucous Rhinos

We're raucous, we're rhinos, we're still quite raucous. I think that pretty much covers it

Relatively Theoretical Constructs

RTC is a group of WPI and MIT alums, friends, and families. Our team varies from 25-40 people, with folks in the US, Canada, Germany, and other countries. We are casual-competitive, meaning we value fun and cooperation, but encourage everyone to do their best.

Resistant to Nixing Pluto

Richie Bear

“I have a feeling this is our year to win.” “If by win you mean ‘even finish a single round,’ I’m pretty sure you’re still wrong.”

Ring My Bell

roobeelee

rory's racing cars

We're a group of University of Glasgow students who've, for the most part, been talked into doing this puzzle hunt by Rory!

Rubrica

Solo solver aiming to solve at least one (1) puzzle! ^-^

Run BMC

Sabotages

We love games. We love strategy. We love Boston (not Colorado).

Salivation Army

Couple of people hoping to solve a puzzle.

Salmonoid

Salmon

Seep Susan

Sennin

There is an idea of a Sennin. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me. Only entities. Something illusory. And though you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.

Setec Astronomy

We're interested in all kinds of astronomy.

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PARTY AND SHIP OR DIE

Shower Pomelo

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Singles Ready to Stay Inside

Sleepy Cat

Sleipnir's Wranglers

We are an easy going team, just looking to solve some puzzles and have a good time.

Sloopertroup

Slow-Moving Trainwreck

Small Llama Malls

Our goals, in order: 1. Have fun. 2. Solve puzzles. 3. Finish the hunt, even if it takes until June.

Smung Institute

Uncontrollable Intelligence

Solo Solver

Just playing for fun. Will stop when the hunt becomes too overwhelming.

#SorryMom++

so true beastie

soulctf

southwind

Space Cadets

Space Needle in a Haystack

(mostly) Seattle-based team doing our first MIT Mystery Hunt. We have a wide range of experience levels, from people who write puzzle hunts to people who have never done one before.

Spicy Pecans

Random pika alums! Secret Trash narnians! Perhaps others.

Spore Giant

A group of puzzlers (and friends) mainly hailing from Singapore, and more!

S.S. Trixie Fig

Sticky Mittens

[stimulant] [animal]

Primarily Cocaine Sloth, descendants of Speed Pig, progenitors of Adderall Squirrel et al. Barbershop singers in STL.

Stooth Moves

Stressful Shapes

String Cheese Theory

The stringiest of cheeses; the cheesiest of theories

Stumped and Furious

We are sometimes Stumped, but rarely Furious.

Sufficiently Large N

yeet!

Super Team Awesome

Sus Scrofa Cristatus

tableflip

TaskforceEarth

Tc

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Team 1646

Team 3734

Harvard & St. Andrews tackling the MIT Puzzle Hunt!

Team Constructed Adventures

Team Conundrum

Ohio geocaching amigos.

teammate

just some meat-eating (and non-meat-eating) teammates from teammate solving metas drinking mate

Team Plaid Thong

We will be playing remotely, but we have been puzzling with the hunt since 2003. We love to hunt and we are just doing it for fun.

Team Rebellion

The (small) crew of the Rebellion, ready to sail the puzzling seas from the UK.

Team SUA

Team to be named at a later date

Team Unseen

The most respected, and only, University in the city of Ankh-Morpork, Unseen has a Librarian (ook), some wizards, and an air of generally chaotic productivity mingled with an air of generally productive chaos.

testaccount

Tetacetera

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The 25 Venters

Puzzle hunters from RHIT

The Builders' Guild

A scrappy small team that one day will recognize a Masyu puzzle without a hint.

The DONUT within the DONUT

DONUTS are the smallest element of the known universe. As scientists explore the make up of DONUTS they find that they are only smaller fractal donuts. It's DONUTS all the way down! Looks like DONUTS are back on the menu boys!

The Dragonflies

Fully remote team, looking to solve a few puzzles

TheFam

the GAFUCONE

你有没有感觉自己像个塑料袋！(were just putting that to make ourselves look cracked)

The Gausslings

A team of silly geese desperately trying to stay ahead of the curve.

The Girlz and otherz and GPTz

Twelve Translucents are trapped in a Supersonic Starlight Suplex with only their wits (and some Compound V-fueled hallucinations) to escape. 超人总动员

The Gr88 Ones

Puzzle lovers from the red brick school up the street

The Intermittent Puzzlers

We puzzle, sometimes.

The Islanders

We're a group of novice hunters from around the world that came together through a certain ~ Island ~ online Survivor game!

The Lexingtons

We're escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism... SPACE!

theluckiestlandlord

just collecting ur rent

The Mathemagicians

We're a chill online team from all over the globe, open to solvers of any skill or experience level. We're Discord/GSheets-based, with a small in person group, and we aim to see as much of the hunt as we can. Find our invite at https://www.puzzles.wiki/wiki/The_Mathemagicians !

The Most Serene Republic of Dan Marino

The Nutboys

A nutty group of individuals who happen to like puzzles

The Pink Dragons

We are pink with dragon.

The Providence Planetary Stations

The Ptrocanfers

a pair of mortal friends (opposite of mortal enemies) making their way in the world

The Puzzledome

two puzzles enter one puzzle leaves

The Real Imitation Gamers

Not those other guys

The Rum Swizzlers 🍹

Puzzle hunters from the island of Bermuda

The Translators

The TSBI Hive

The casual arm of TSBI.

The TSBI Swarm

The TSBI Swarm is Test Solution Bees Ignores' "Competitive" division! There's So many Brilliant Individuals here, always Trying to Significantly Boost our Intelligence, which is why we're travelling where no bee (except those ones on STS-107) has gone before: SPACE!!!

The α-betical Order

Adventuring beyond couldn't discourage enthusiastic fellows. Goals high in journeys kindly letting many navigate obfuscated puzzles quickly, readily seeking the unfathomable void with x-rays, γ-rays, & zeniths.

Threat Level Midnight 2: Madness at MIT

We like The Office TV show n stuff!

tikmom

Tina, I'm doing Puzzles

some middle aged dads

Tinkers' Hollow

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[title of team]

TotallyNotRobots

Truffle Hunters

A group of Toronto engineers, that love puzzle hunts

Ultimate Brownies

⛎ UNICODE EQUIVALENCE

004F+03D5+1C6A+3075+0053=https://tinyurl.com/answer_ _ _ _

Universal Solvents

Up Late

Just hoping to live up to our name.

Vaguely Eloquent Team

You sit at the restaurant with your young son, he says he is hungry...

Vantablack

MIT alums and associate puzzle enthusiasts

Veni Vidi Wiki

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Vexed and Perplexed

villiage idiots

duhhhhhh, whaaaaaaaat, huhhhhhh

V-o-y-a-g-e-r

Wafflehaüs

We are the official team of Simmons Hall! The most porous and waffle-loving team there can be, we are comprised of current students, alums, and friends of the Sponge. Come visit us in Simmons Dining throughout the weekend.

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