Weare also missing solutions for the Chess Competitions and the hunts from 1981-1983, 1985, and 1989-1992. Additionally, during the early years of the Mystery Hunt, there were often two simultaneous hunts (one for individuals and one for teams, or one for small teams and one for large teams, etc). Since we have no way of knowing which years had two hunts, the archive may have gaps of which we are unaware.
If there are things in the archive that make solving puzzles after-the-fact particularly bad (either because the puzzle page reveals information that would not have existed during the hunt proper, or because the information needed to solve the puzzle exists only in the solution page), please let us know.
Mystery Hunt 2024 first tasked teams with escaping Hades after being banished there by the Greco-Roman pantheon for killing the god Pluto, then asked teams to revive Pluto by finding his "shades" scattered across the US.
Mystery Hunt 2023 started with teams working through a museum-themed round, written by a new AI, MATE, before inadvertently discovering a hidden factory. Within the factory, teams found several more "rejected" AIs, whose rounds they had to complete to build a new and improved factory.
Brad Schaefer ran these chess puzzle competitions a couple years before he started the Mystery Hunt. You could say they're the grandparents of the Hunt. Or second cousins once removed. Or possibly step-uncles.
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