MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle Index: Category Data

Puzzle Types

The following keywords are specific puzzle types or puzzles in general.

1, 2, 3 crossword

Akari (Light Up) puzzle

alphabetic sequences

alphabet subsets

alphametics (encoded arithmetic)

Anguished English

Back and Forth (puzzle type)

Battleships (puzzle)

before and after

Black Box (game)

black box (solver must figure out inner workings)

Bongard problems

cartoon rebuses

connect the dots

cross-number puzzle

Cross Products (Cross Sums variant)

Cross Sums (Kakuro)

crossword puzzles

crossword variants

cryptic crossword clues

cryptic crosswords

deletions and insertions

diagramless criss-cross

diagramless crossword

dimension added

disconnected criss-cross

drawing letters and numbers

End View puzzle

Equation Analysis Test (26 = L. in the A.)

Fillomino puzzle

find the differences

flats (NPL puzzles)

following directions

forms (word squares and others)

impossible puzzles

jumping crossword

letter adjacency graphs

letters in same positions

liar logic puzzles (and self-referential statements, etc.)

logical deduction

logic puzzle based on elimination

magnet logic puzzles

Minesweeper game

mirror logic puzzles

multiple answers to logic puzzles

multiple crossword solutions

Norinori puzzle

numbers associated with or in words

ordering logic puzzles

paint by numbers (logic puzzle)

palindromes and palindromic sequences

paragraph puzzles

pathfinder crossword

Pentomino Minesweeper (logic puzzle)

phonetic letters and numbers (NV = envy or single letters)

phonetic puzzles

printer's devilry

Puns and Anagrams crossword

Railroad Crossing puzzle

rebus crossword

reduplications (like yo, yo-yo)

reverse word search

Right Angles puzzle

River Crossing logic puzzles

Seeking Syren (logic puzzle)

Siamese Twins puzzle

skyscrapers puzzle

solitaire hangman puzzle

Some Assembly Required

sound changes (phonetic letter changes)

Split Decisions puzzle

Star Battle (logic puzzle)

Statue Park puzzle

sudoku (number place)

Thermometers (logic puzzle)

time-sequence puzzles

time-varying puzzles

transdeletions and transadditions

Wheel of Fortune

wordplay (other)

words on winding paths

World Puzzle Championship