MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle Index

Yes, an index. So we can find the puzzles that have previously been done on a topic.

What's in the Index?

The 1982 Hunt and all the Hunts from 1994-2023 are indexed. Parts of the 2024 Hunt is indexed. 1999 was re-indexed after the April 2013 archive update provided a lot of the missing information and solutions. Many thanks to Aaron Dinkin of Metaphysical Plant for helping get the 2011 puzzles added, and Seth Schoen of Codex for the 2012 puzzles, as well as all the people who have helped fill in gaps in the Mystery Hunt archive.

How do I access it?

In any of these ways:

See the complete index on one page (very long)
See the list of keywords (2357)
See the list of puzzles (3653)
See the list of puzzles sorted by title
See the list of categories (21)
See the list of hunts (32)
See the list of authors (1000)

New Features

A bunch of stuff:

In the midst of constructing 2024's Hunt, I received a massive archive including all Eric Albert's personal Hunt archives. I am working to sort out what's what and get it into the MIT archive, and to index it for my site.
The 1982 Hunt is indexed.
Previously missing pieces of the 1995 and 1996 Hunts are indexed.
The 1998 Hunt is indexed. This Hunt was almost completely missing from the archive until now. A number of puzzles still lack complete solutions.
Early rounds of the 2024 Hunt are indexed.

Keep sending feedback via those links on every page to let me know what's wrong, but hold off on suggesting synonyms or category suggestions for now.

What remains to be added?

The 1981 Hunt
All Hunts from 1983 to 1993
The 1998 and 2024 Hunts need to be finished

Future Development

I am considering adding other non-Mystery Hunt puzzle hunts to this index. To be eligible, a puzzle hunt should:

Have freely accessible archives of puzzles online
Have a web site at a stable URL for a period of time
Have solutions available online somewhere, or I have solutions for them I can post
Not be an ongoing event people are expected to still be solving (i.e., solvers are not still asked to keep solutions secret)

Old MUMS, CISRA, SUMS (one SUMS is missing), the Harvard hunt, DASH, BAPHL, the RIT CS hunts, Mark Halpin's Labor Day hunts, and the Googol Conglomerate game are candidates. PuzzleCrack fails on having a stable website; only 2007 and 2008 are up now, 2008 without solutions. Sekkrets, The Stone, Puzzle Boat, and Panda Magazine are not eligible because access is still limited to what you have solved/opened via a logged in account and/or paid for. TimeHunt and Retrocogitator are not eligible because the puzzles are not online. And there are a ton of other ones in recent years I haven't gotten around to considering.