Puzzle hunt

• D.A.S.H. (Different Area Same Hunt) takes place on the same day in multiple cities around the world using ClueKeeper as the interface.[1]
• the MIT Mystery Hunt (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA),[2]
• the Melbourne University Mathematics & Statistics Society (MUMS) puzzlehunt (Melbourne, Australia),
• the Sydney University Maths Society (SUMS) puzzle hunt (Sydney, Australia),
• the TMOU (Brno, Czech Republic)
• the VT Hunt ᚖᚌᚖ (Blacksburg, Virginia, USA)
• the Microsoft Puzzle Hunt (Redmond, Washington, USA),
• the Miami Herald's Tropic Hunt (Miami, Florida, USA),
• the Washington Post's Post Hunt (Washington, DC, USA),
• the Gen Con Puzzle Hunt (Indianapolis, Indiana, USA),
• Mezzacotta (formerly the Canon Information Systems Research Australia Puzzle Competition) (here),
• Galactic Puzzle Hunt, run over Pi Day weekend (no 2020 event, as the authoring team was working on the 2021 MIT Mystery Hunt),
• the Phish.net Quest puzzle sequence (summary here),
• the REDDOThunt (here),
• the Great Puzzle Hunt in Bellingham, WA every April

• APT Puzzle Tournament, a recruiting event on multiple campuses hosted by Applied Predictive Technologies
• Google Games, a multi-part competition that usually includes logic puzzles, coding, trivia, and building challenges that utilize materials like LEGO bricks
• College Puzzle Challenge (Multiple Locations, North America), hosted by Microsoft as a recruiting event on college campuses.
• Palantir's Puzzle Challenge, a recruiting event on multiple campuses hosted by Palantir Technologies

• Puzzle Hunt, put on every semester by a student organization called PuzzleHuntCMU at Carnegie Mellon University's Pittsburgh, PA campus
• VT Hunt, an annual group puzzle hunt held annually by Virginia Tech's ᚖᚌᚖ Septagram Society[3]
• Nova Quest, a campus-wide puzzle hunt organized by the Nova Quest student organization, taking place each spring at Villanova University
• Puzzle Hunt, open to all students and organized by the Rice University IEEE student chapter
• SUMO Puzzle Hunt, a puzzle hunt made annually by the Stanford University Mathematical Organization
• UMD PuzzleHunt, a Spring puzzle hunt written by the Puzzle Club at the University of Maryland, College Park

• 2012-2016 Berkeley Mystery Hunt (), a puzzle hunt at UC Berkeley made by The Campus League of Puzzlers
• 2002-2008 PuzzleCrack (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

• MaPP Challenge,[4] a national event hosted on various college/university campuses that gets high school students solving puzzles inspired by recent developments in mathematical research
• PEA Puzzle Hunt,[5] a puzzle hunt at Phillips Exeter Academy
• Puzzlepalooza,[6] a puzzle hunt at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring MD

Individuals or teams can take part in a puzzle hunt-style challenge using software such as ClueKeeper on their smartphones.[1] An individual hunt is purchased, downloaded, and played at the player's convenience. Such hunts are typically not timed and offer no prize except the enjoyment of playing and the satisfaction of solving the challenge. Most are tied to a particular location and require walking from place to place as the puzzles are solved,[7][8] but some are designed to be played at home.[1]