Our next hunt:

Spring 2025 Hunt
04/12/25 01:00PM – 04/13/25 01:20PM EDT
Kickoff location is TBA

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Who are we?

  • We are Puzzle Hunt CMU, a group of puzzle enthusiasts from Carnegie Mellon University.
  • We work together to solve Puzzle Hunts such as the MIT mystery hunt, or any of the many tech company puzzle hunts (examples of such companies include Microsoft, APT and Palantir).
  • We also write and host CMU's very own puzzle hunt once a semester, with the goal of providing a fun-filled experience to as many members of the community as possible.

What is a puzzle hunt?

  • Very simply put, it's an event where people get together to solve carefully designed puzzles which somehow link together on a larger scale.
  • A puzzle hunt is typically characterized by its structure. In addition to several normal puzzles, each round has a meta-puzzle, which requires teams to have solved most of the normal puzzles to even unlock, and often requires solvers to incorporate answers from that round's normal puzzles to make sense of.
  • Our puzzle hunt's structure changes from semester to semester in order to provide new challenges for solvers.

Wait that sounds cool, can I participate?

Yeah, check out our current hunt page!

Wait, I have more questions!

Email the HALP?! LINE (puzzlehunt-staff@lists.andrew.cmu.edu) with "Puzzle Hunt" somewhere in the subject line.