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MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle Index: All Keywords

1, 2, 3 crossword

1-dimensional cellular automata

“24” (TV show)

25-pair color code

3SAT (boolean satisfiability problem)

42 Essential 3rd Act Twists

69 Love Songs

7 Little Words (online word game)

7 Wonders (board game)

“88 Lines About 44 Women”

8-ball (pool game)

academic regalia

achievements in video games

A Chorus Line

ACME's Have You Tried document

actors playing famous people

Ada programming language

A Day in the Life

adding "in bed" to fortunes

Adventure (Atari 2600 game)

Adventure Time (animated program)

airplane call signs

airplane tail art

Akari (Light Up) puzzle

Alchemist sculpture

alchemy symbols

alethiometer (golden compass from His Dark Materials)

Alice in Wonderland

alphabetic sequences

alphabet subsets

alphametics (encoded arithmetic)

Altered Beast (video game)

Alternate Corners puzzle

Alvin and the Chipmunks

“The Amazing Race”

American Film Institute's top 100 movies lists

American Girl dolls

America (the Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction

___ and ___ phrases

Android version code-names

Angband (Rogue-like game)

angelic hierarchy

“Angel” (TV show)

Anglo-American telegraph code

Anguished English

Animals on the Underground web site

Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral

answer given for completing task

apocalypse dates

Apples to Apples game

Arrested Development (band and TV show)

arXiv academic paper preprints

ascending and descending letters

assembly puzzles

Ataxx (video game)

Athena (MIT computer system)

atmospheric layers

audio file manipulation

augmented reality

Australian English

Ave Maria cipher

Babylonian numerals

baby names database

Back and Forth (puzzle type)

background music

Back to the Future movies

"Backwards" (Rascal Flatts song)

backward talking

the (Kevin) Bacon game

“The Bad Touch” (Bloodhound Gang song)

ballroom dancing

bases other than ten

“Batman” (60s TV series)

Battle Line (game)

Battleship (board game)

Battleships (puzzle)

“Battlestar Galactica” (2000s TV show)

Beaufort cipher

Bechdel-Wallace Test

bee waggle dance

before and after

beheaded people

Bejeweled (game)

Ben & Jerry's ice cream

Bhavacakra (Buddhist Wheel of Life)

“Big Bang Theory” (TV show)

“Big Brother” (reality TV show)

binary/biliteral/Baconian cipher

Birds of America

black and white (logic puzzle)

Black Box (game)

black box (solver must figure out inner workings)

"The Blacklist" (TV show)

Mr. Blackwell's Worst Dressed List

Board Game Geek (web site)

Bob's Burgers (TV series)

Humphrey Bogart

James Bond movies

bones"Bones" (TV show)

Bongard problems

Boston Marathon

Boston University

“The Brady Bunch”

bridge bidding conventions

British and American English differences

British Columbia

Broadway theaters

“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”

building 16-56 floor code

building 2 mathematical models

building 56 murals

building 6C floor squares

Bulls-Eye 20 Questions

busy beaver Turing machines

"but I hardly know her" jokes

Button Men (game)

BWV numbers (Bach music catalog)

Cabin Pressure (BBC radio show)

call letters of TV or radio stations

Cambridge street cleaning schedule

Camelot (board game)

capitals of states or countries

“Car Talk” (radio program)

Cartesian coordinates

cartoon rebuses

causal loop diagrams

celebrities' original names

celebrity baby names

celebrity deaths

celebrity photos

"The Chaos" (poem)

“Charlie on the MTA”

"Cheers" (TV show)

chemical elements

chemical reactions

chemicals (particular molecules)

chess variants/fairy chess

children's books

Chinese five elements

Chinese numerals

Chinese remainder theorem

Chinese zodiac/calendar

chocolate ingredients

choose your own adventure

Christmas carols

Chromaphonoglyphics

Chutes and Ladders

circular periodic table

Cirque du Soleil

city address grids

city and state names

Clabbers (anagram Scrabble)

clickbait links

Codenames (game)

The Colbert Report

collective names for animals

college football bowl games

college sports team nicknames

color blindness

color palettes in image files

color separations

colors of the rainbow

col (saddle point between mountains)

combination locks

Commander Keen alphabet

common meter for songs

The Communards (band)

Community Solar System (exhibit of the Museum of Science)

"Community" (TV Show)

completing the square

composers of music

computer architecture

Concept (board game)

concept intersection

connect the dots

Constitution of the U.S.

context-free grammars

cooking/bring us food

"Cooking with Dog" (YouTube show)

Cosmic Encounter

"Countdown" (British game show)

counting shapes

country codes (any variety)

Country Road (puzzle type)

court settlements

covers (musical remakes)

Cow Parade (civic art projects)

Cracked magazine

cricket (darts game)

cross-number puzzle

Cross Products (Cross Sums variant)

Cross Sums (Kakuro)

crossword puzzles

crossword variants

cryptic crossword clues

cryptic crosswords

crystallography

Cuneiform numerals

curling (sport)

currency ISO codes

cutting out shapes

Cyrillic alphabet

Daedric alphabet (Elder Scrolls)

Dance Dance Revolution

dances (names for)

Dancing Men cipher

Dante's circles of Hell

"Dare to Be Stupid" (Weird Al Yankovic song)

Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd album)

DARPA Network Challenge

Da Vinci's Notebook (band)

Deal or No Deal

Dear Sriracha (comic in The Oatmeal)

deletions and insertions

Demotivators (parody of motivational posters)

“Desperate Housewives”

The Devil's Dictionary

/dev/joe's Mystery Hunt Index

Dewey decimal system

diacritical marks

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

diagramless criss-cross

diagramless crossword

dimension added

The Dinner Party (art by Judy Chicago)

Diplomacy (game)

disconnected criss-cross

discover the hidden rules

Disney princesses

dissection (geometric)

DNS root servers

Dominion (game)

double-or-nothing crossword

Dragonriders of Pern

drawing letters and numbers

Dresden Files books

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

DropMix (music-mixing game)

dubbing videos with parody dialogue

"Dumb Ways to Die" (Melbourne train video)

Dungeons & Dragons

DVD region numbers

Bob Dylan songs

George Eastman plaque in building 6

edge matching puzzles

electoral college

electrical engineering

electric circuits

elimination tournament

elliptic curves

Encyclopedia Brown

Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

End View puzzle

Entertainment Weekly magazine

Epic Rap Battles of History

eponyms (words made from people's names)

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

Ermahgerd! meme

Escape from Zyzzlvaria

esoteric programming languages

Eurovision Song contest

events staged multiple times

evolutionary tree

experimental study group (ESG at MIT)

ext2 filesystem

external publications and broadcasts

"The Eye of Argon" (short story)

eye rhyme (visually similar non-rhyming word pairs)

Fact Sphere (Portal 2)

fake answer callback

fake solution link

Fallout 4 (video game)

false negatives

famous captains

fashion designers

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

feast days for saints

federal congressional districts

Federal Reserve banks

FedEx tracking numbers

Fermat's Last Theorem

Feynman diagrams

fictional birds

fictional books

fictional characters' love interests

fictional characters who attended MIT

fictional curse words

fictional definitions of words

fictional detectives

fictional homes

fictional objects

fictional rooms

fictional steeds

fictional train stations

fictional weapons

file extensions

file reconstruction

Fillomino puzzle

Final Fantasy video games

find the differences

Firefly (TV show)

first and last letters of words

flats (NPL puzzles)

Flesch-Kincaid grade level

floating point roundoff

Fold-Ins (as in Mad Magazine)

following directions

following paths

forms (word squares and others)

fortune cookies

four horsemen of the apocalypse

Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot

fourteen-segment displays

“Fra Lippo Lippi” (Browning Poem)

FreeCell (solitaire card game)

The Freedom Trail

French Republican Calendar

frequency distributions

“Friends” (TV Show)

frightening things

Frontier Airlines

Futurama alphabet

Game of Thrones

game shows staged for solvers

"Gangnam Style"

Garbage Pail Kids

The Garden of Earthly Delights

“Gashlycrumb Tinies”

Gaussian primes

gendered names for animals

Gilbert and Sullivan

Gilbert schema for Ulysses

“Gilmore Girls”

Girl Talk (musician)

"Glee" (TV show)

Gnommish alphabet (Artemis Fowl)

Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Going Too Far crossword

Goldberg variations

Good Will Hunting

Google Maps user maps

Google Street View

Goosebumps books

Graffiti (Palm Pilot writing)

Sue Grafton novels

Gray's Anatomy

Greek mythology

Green Eggs and Ham

Gringmuth notation

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Guillotine (card game)

gym badges (from Pokémon)

hacking (MIT pranks)

Hamilton (musical)

Hanayama disassembly puzzles

Harvard Sentences

Harvard spectral classification

hash algorithms

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft game

Hebrew gematria

Chris Hemsworth

Here-There (MIT Media Lab art)

Hermes Conrad (Futurama character) "Sweet X of Y" phrases

heteromino (logic puzzle)

hidden tracks on albums

High Fidelity (book)

high school CEEB codes

highway numbers

hiragana (Japanese script)

Al Hirschfeld (caricatures with "Nina")

historical events

historical markers

"A History of the World in 100 Objects"

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"Hollywood Squares"

Sherlock Holmes stories

Homestar Runner

homophonic substitution cipher

Hotaru Beam puzzle

Hot Ones (YouTube show)

House of Representatives

“House” (TV show)

How I Met Your Mother (TV series)

Hunt the Wumpus

hybrid creatures

i before e except after c exceptions

I Can Has Cheezburger

ICD-10 codes for medical diagnoses

identify text from stress pattern, prosody, or poetic meter

Ig Nobel Prizes

Illinois driver's license code

image classification

image manipulation

impossible puzzles

The Improper Bostonian

InChI (international chemical identifier)

Indian numerals

The Infinite Corridor

information missing

Ingress glyph language

In-person interview

insult swordfighting

integer sequences

Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) videos

interleaved words

intermediate tasks

internet top-level domains

___ in the ___ phrases

Invader (street artist)

invented languages

IPA (international phonetic alphabet)

iPod Submarine (party game)

Iraqi Most Wanted playing cards

“Iron Chef: America”

Irregular Webcomic!

isithuntyet.info

isomorphic graphs

"It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"

"Jack and the Beanstalk"

"Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats" (song from Cats)

Jelly Belly jellybeans

“Jeopardy!”

Jewish sabbath laws

John Hodgman's hobo names list

Jonathan Coulton

jumping crossword

“Kaiju Big Battel”

Keccak-256 hashes

John F. Kennedy

Kenny's deaths on "South Park"

Key and Peele (Comedy Central show)

Killian Court names

Kingdom of Loathing

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

kings and queens

knights (British titles)

knitting patterns

"The Knowledge" (London black cabs)

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

"La Terre vue du ciel" (photograph series by Yann Arthus-Bertrand)

Latke vs. Hamentaschen debates

"La Vie Boheme"

The Legend of Zelda

legislative text

letter adjacency graphs

“letter and word” phrases

letter pairs that look like another letter

letters in same positions

letters shared, adjacent words/squares

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

library catalog numbers

Life (cellular automaton)

The Life of Pi

Link's Awakening trading sequence

literary devices

lobby 10 Memorials

lobby 6 periodic table

lobby 7 Inscription

logical deduction

logical operators

logic puzzle based on elimination

Logo (programming language)

longitude and latitude

“Look Around You” (British TV show)

Lord of the Rings

Lost Cities (game)

H. P. Lovecraft

Lovecraft Letter (game)

"MacGyver" (TV show)

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

magazine covers

magazine writing styles

Magic: the Gathering

magnet logic puzzles

"Major General's Song"

manner of death

maritime signal flags

Marvin the Martian

The Masked Singer

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Massachusetts Avenue (street near MIT)

matchmaker puzzle

Matoran alphabet (Bionicle)

Walter Matthau roles

Mayfield Handbook (writing reference)

McMaster-Carr catalog

medical operations

Mega Man video games

mental disorders

mergers and acquisitions

Merriam-Webster dictionaries

message encrypted multiple times

Middle Earth (Tolkien setting)

Nightmare on Elm Street films

military pay grades

Minesweeper game

minor planet numbers

mirror logic puzzles

misheard lyrics

Miss Universe pageant

MIT Board of Chaplains

MIT building names

MIT building numbers and room numbers

MIT campus phone numbers

MIT class gifts

MIT course bulletin

MIT courses (departments/majors)

MIT door inscriptions

MIT fire extinguisher numbers

MIT history mural in Kendall Station

MIT homepage "Spotlight" images

MIT Library Access Music Project

MIT Musical Theatre Guild

MIT named rooms

MIT Nerdopoly (edition of Monopoly game)

MIT OpenCourseWare

MIT people (staff, alumni, etc.)

MIT student groups

MIT theatrical productions

MIT tree numbers

MIT Virtual Tours

Mohs scale of hardness

molecular models

Monster Factory (YouTube series)

month abbreviations

Mooninites advertising Aqua Teen Hunger Force

moon names from Farmers' Almanac

Mornington Crescent

The Most Interesting Man in the World

mother sauces of French cuisine

movie or TV show remakes

MS Paint Adventures

multiple answers to logic puzzles

multiple crossword solutions

multiple meanings of words

music adapted from classical music

musical instruments

music (identification from audio samples)

music (identification from clues or lyrics)

music (sheet music, transcriptions of notes, or solfege)

"My Brother, My Brother and Me" (podcast)

Mystery Science Theatre 3000

“Mythbusters”

mythical beasts

nail polish colors

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

narrative charts

Nautical Almanac

Navajo code talk

navigation way points (fixes)

NCAA basketball tournament

Nethack (rogue-like game)

neural networks

The Neverending Story

"Never Not Funny" (Jimmy Pardo podcast)

New England Aquarium

New Jersey Turnpike

New York Times crosswords

NFPA 704 fire diamonds

nicknames for playing cards

ninepin bowling

no four in a row (logic puzzle)

Norinori puzzle

Norse mythology

No Such Thing as a Fish (podcast)

not alone (logic puzzle)

NP-hard problems

Number Link puzzle

numbers associated with or in words

obsolete technology

"___ of the ___" phrases

Omnibus podcast

On Beyond Zebra

One Piece (manga)

one-time pad, Gronsfeld cipher, or Augustus cipher

one time pad used multiple times

“One Week” (Barenaked Ladies song)

Only Connect (British TV game show)

Operation (game)

optimization problems

ordering logic puzzles

The Order of the Stick (webcomic)

O'Reilly covers

Oscars (Academy Awards)

"over 9000" meme

overlapping rings

packing polyominoes

paint by number (coloring book)

paint by numbers (logic puzzle)

pairing up matching things

pairs (__ & __)

palindromes and palindromic sequences

Palm Pilot application

paper airplanes

paragraph puzzles

pathfinder crossword

Penrose triangle

Pentomino Minesweeper (logic puzzle)

people executed by hanging

Percy Jackson and the Olympians books

periodic behavior

periodic table parodies

Peter's evil overlord list

Phoenician alphabet

phone phreaking

phonespell (2 = A,B,C)

phonetic alphabet

phonetic ambiguity

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

phonetic puzzles

phony Scrabble words

phrase structure grammar

phrases with a set of words

physical education (P.E.)

Piet programming language

pigeonhole principle

Pika (MIT residence)

places north of other places

places with the same name

Playboy playmates

Playfair square cipher

playing cards code (assigning letters to specific cards)

polarization of light

Polcari's Italian Restaurant in Tech Square

The Police (band)

Poor Richard's Almanack

Popy Chogokin robot toys

portable electronic devices

Portal (game)

position players pitching

postal barcodes

Power Grid (game)

presidential also-rans

The Price is Right

Prince (musician)

The Princess Bride

printer's devilry

produce PLU codes

programming algorithms

programming languages

proofreading marks

proverbial sayings

provinces, states, divisions of countries

Pset (MIT homework set)

PubMed (National Library of Medicine repository of papers)

Punch Out!! (video game)

Puns and Anagrams crossword

QI (British game show)

Quadrate (area in Mannheim, Germany)

“Quantum Leap” (TV show)

quantum superposition

Questions (game)

questions with two answers

Quora (web site)

radio broadcasts (localized)

Radiohead songs

rail fence cipher

Railroad Crossing puzzle

railroad interlocking (switches and signals)

Rainbow Serpent

Srinivasa Ramanujan

John Ratzenberger characters

“The Raven” (Poe poem)

"Real Housewives" (TV show)

Real Men of Genius (Bud Light ad campaign)

rebus crossword

Red Dragon Inn board game

reduplications (like yo, yo-yo)

regular expressions

Renfield (game)

repeated letters

rescue and salvage ships

resistor color code

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

restaurant menus

restricted solving

reverse word search

reviews of products

reviews of products

RGB color values

ribbons (substitute military medals)

"Rick and Morty" (cartoon)

Ricochet Robots

Right Angles puzzle

River Crossing logic puzzles

Roadkill Buffet

roadside attractions

Rock Band (game)

rock, paper, anything

rock, paper, scissors

rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock

Roguelike games

role-playing games

roller coasters

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time

Roman mythology

Roscolux lighting filters

rotated letters

round-robin tournament

RSA Factoring Challenge

Rube Goldberg machines

runarounds (and photo identification of MIT)

Rupaul's Drag Race

Rush Hour (sliding block puzzle)

SafeRide (MIT shuttle system)

Salt Lake City, UT

same title, different work

"Saturday Night Live"

scholar's mate (chess game)

"School Song" (alphabet song from Matilda, the Musical)

Schubert's music

science fiction

scientific constants

scientific formulas

scientific laws

scientific names for organisms

"Scooby Doo, Where are You!"

Scotland Yard (board game)

Secret Service codenames

security questions

Seeking Syren (logic puzzle)

self-modifying programs

Senior House entry names

sentence diagrams

sephiroth (tree of life)

Sesame Street

Set (card game)

Settlers of Catan (game)

Seven Sages puzzle

seven-segment displays

sex-related terms

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

George Bernard Shaw

Sheep and Wolves

shifting letters

shortened forms of words

Siamese Twins puzzle

signal loop (logic puzzle)

Simmons Hall (MIT Building)

“The Simpsons”

simulated computer

"Single Ladies" (Beyonce song)

six flags over Texas

size of objects

SKI combinator calculus

Skulduggery Pleasant books

skyscrapers puzzle

Slow-scan television (SSTV)

Small World (game)

S-M-R-T smart meme

Snake (video game)

SNOMED medical codes

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Solitaire (encryption algorithm from Cryptonomicon)

solitaire hangman puzzle

Solresol (musical language)

solution missing

Some Assembly Required

something different crossword

Stephen Sondheim

songs with lists

Aaron Sorkin shows

sound changes (phonetic letter changes)

“South Park”

space groups (crystallography)

Spaceteam (app/game)

Spaghetti (metapuzzle creation game)

spaghetti westerns

Spam Haiku Archive

spatial perception

spelling bee winning words

spelling out letters

Spiral Galaxies puzzle

Split Decisions puzzle

sponsor names in 10-250

Spontaneanation with Paul F. Tompkins (podcast)

Sporcle (trivia web site)

sports teams with the same names

squares (named road intersections)

squaring the circle

stamps (postage)

Stanford University

Star Battle (logic puzzle)

“Star Trek” (all series)

Stata Center lockers

state abbreviations

state nicknames

Statue Park puzzle

“The Straight Dope”

Strava (cycling and running app)

stress patterns

Strongbad e-mails

Student Center elevator directories

subway (the T or other cities' systems)

sudoku (number place)

sun and moon (logic puzzle)

Supreme Court cases

SureType keyboard

“Survivor” (reality TV show)

Sweethearts conversation hearts

SyFy original movies

tangible objects given to teams

Technical Machines (TMs, from Pokémon)

Technique (MIT Yearbook)

tectonic plates

telephone calls

telephone exchange words (like 55 = Klondike)

Telephone (game)

television networks

Television Without Pity web site

TETCBN (answer appears as part of puzzle)

Tetracross puzzle

tetragrammaton appears in puzzle

Tetris variations

text adventures

The Happy Squirrel (tarot card introduced by The Simpsons)

The Joy of... books

The Meaning of Liff

Thermo Fisher white powders library

Thermometers (logic puzzle)

They Might Be Giants

things shaped like letters

Threadless T-shirts

three letter acronyms

three-named people

Ticket To Ride game

time-sequence puzzles

time-varying puzzles

toki pona (conlang)

tongue twisters

"Top Gear" (TV show)

toponyms (words derived from place names)

toppling dominoes

Touch Tone dialing tones

tower defense game

train lines (rail)

TransAmerica game

transdeletions and transadditions

transliteration into different writing system

transposition cipher

traveling salesman problem

tree of life (cabbala)

triangle centers

Trivial Pursuit game

Turing machines

turkeys pardoned by the U.S. President

Tuva or Bust! (Book about Richard Feynman)

“The Twelve Days of Christmas”

Twitter messages

two-hit wonders

"The Tyger" (poem)

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

units of measure

university mottos

Unix timestamps

unpowered record player

Untappd (beer tracking app)

URL manipulation/guessing

US states order of entry

UTF-8 overlong sequences

Vampire: The Eternal Struggle

vaulting (gymnastics)

Vegas Showdown (game)

vending machines

vice presidents

views of a solid object

Vigenere cipher

Viking River Cruises

Vim text editor

“The Vitruvian Man”

voiced and unvoiced consonants

Voo Doo (MIT humor magazine)

vowel/consonant pattern

vowels, phrases containing all

Voyager Golden Record

Wacky Packages trading cards

Waiting for Godot

“Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me” (NPR show)

walks on the moon

Wally Wood's 22 Panels that Always Work

war (card game)

Washington Nationals presidents race

Watchmen by Alan Moore

Webby awards speeches

Welcome to Night Vale podcast

“Well-Tempered Clavier”

West Coast Swing Dancing

Westminster Kennel Club

“The West Wing” (TV show)

what comes next

"What Does the Fox Say?" (Ylvis song)

Wheel of Fortune

"Wheel of Fortune" (game show)

Wheel of Time (Robert Jordan series)

Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

Where's Waldo

Whitman coin folders

Windows programs

“Winterreise” by Schubert

“Wonderfalls” (TV show)

Woodstock performers

word association

wordplay (other)

Word Search board game

words on winding paths

“Words” (poem by Dana Gioia)

Words with Friends

working with other teams

works inside other works

World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft Trading Card Game

World Puzzle Championship

World's Strongest Man

X11 color names

X and Y coordinates

X-Box achievements

“The X-Files”

x-ray emission lines

"Yakko Warner Sings All the Words in the English Language"

Weird Al Yankovic

yoga poses (asanas)