MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle Index: Category Index

Each player draws some set number of tiles from a large supply at the start of the game.
At a signal, all players flip over their tiles and try to arrange them all into a legal Scrabble board. All letters must be used to form words, all the words must interlock into a single network, and all groups of adjacent tiles must form words reading left to right or top to bottom.
The first person who succeeds in doing this calls out some signal (like "Draw!") at which point each players draws two (or only one, in some games) more tiles from the supply.
All players rebuild their layouts to incorporate the new letters. You can rearrange the letters arbitrarily, but you are going to be faster if you can just add the tiles as a new word or extend an existing word.
The first player done calls out and more tiles are drawn.
Repeat until there are not enough tiles remaining for everybody to draw new tiles.

MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 My Socrates Note
MIT Mystery Hunt 2023 Second-rate Tiles

Battleship (board game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 1999 Ho Chi Minh City
MIT Mystery Hunt 2004 The Commodore's Final Voyage (Meta)
MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 Battleship
MIT Mystery Hunt 2015 Smiling Vessel
MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 That Sinking Feeling

beer pong

MIT Mystery Hunt 2015 Blub Blub Pub Trivia

The Binding of Isaac: Repentance (video game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Steam Library

The Binding of Isaac (roguelike video game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2023 Flooded Caves

bingo

MIT Mystery Hunt 2007 Envy event
MIT Mystery Hunt 2009 Medical Centaur
MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 Bingo
MIT Mystery Hunt 2023 Win a Game of Bingo

Black Box is a puzzle-like game where one player tries to determine the locations of hidden atoms in a grid by observing how the atoms reflect rays entering the box from various locations. It can also be solved as a puzzle, given a predetermined set of ray results.

MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 Aria

blackjack

MIT Mystery Hunt 2004 Rules of the Game (Meta)
MIT Mystery Hunt 2008 Witness 3 Meta
MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 Casino Lobdell
MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Bringing Down the House

Board Game Geek (web site)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2017 On Numbers and Games

Boggle

MIT Mystery Hunt 1996 3A
MIT Mystery Hunt 2003 Bogots
MIT Mystery Hunt 2006 Sixteen Blocks
MIT Mystery Hunt 2007 DRUGGLE
MIT Mystery Hunt 2011 Zombies vs. Zombies Event
MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 A Set of Words
MIT Mystery Hunt 2016 The Contest
MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 The Trebuchet
MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 Boggle Battle

bridge bidding conventions

MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 Penny Park Convention Center
MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 Opening Bids

bridge (game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2002 Conventional Wisdom
MIT Mystery Hunt 2005 Parallel Universe
MIT Mystery Hunt 2011 Scrambling Attributes Yields Conundrum
MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 Penny Park Convention Center
MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 Opening Bids

bughouse chess

MIT Mystery Hunt 2006 Table for Four

Button Men (game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2009 Round 8 Puzzle Unlocking Mechanism
MIT Mystery Hunt 2009 Round 8 Meta

Camelot (board game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2017 It's Only a Model

charades

Any sort of cluing words by parts, such as automobile + domestic animal = floor covering (car + pet = carpet). It may or may not be phonetic. It may or may not include cluing by gestures as in the parlor game of this name.

chaturanga

Ancient Indian strategy game, thought to be the ancestor of modern chess and related games

MIT Mystery Hunt 2023 To Numbers and Back Again

cheat codes

MIT Mystery Hunt 2011 Unfair Cryptogram
MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 A Cheat Code

checkers

MIT Mystery Hunt 2007 Spellcheckers
MIT Mystery Hunt 2009 Round 12 Meta
MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 Turnary Reasoning
MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 Checkerboard

chess

Chess960

Chess variant in which the pieces on players home ranks are randomized at the start of the game. The number 960 represents the number of allowed arrangements.

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Rretro Chess Puzzle

chess variants/fairy chess

MIT Mystery Hunt 2012 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Meta
MIT Mystery Hunt 2014 The Lion and the Unicorn
MIT Mystery Hunt 2019 Divine the Rule of Kings
MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 A King's Best Friend

Chopped (cooking game show)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Spoiler Alert

Chutes and Ladders

MIT Mystery Hunt 2008 Dossier 2 Meta
MIT Mystery Hunt 2011 The Higher They Climb, the Farther They Fall
MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 Snakes and Ladders
MIT Mystery Hunt 2014 A Puzzle with the Answer AND I LOVE HER
MIT Mystery Hunt 2018 Scout
MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 Water Slides

Clabbers (anagram Scrabble)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2014 Stronghold Fire

Clue (game)

Clue, called Cluedo in the UK, is a classic deduction board game

MIT Mystery Hunt 1995 40: Ballroom (Meta)
MIT Mystery Hunt 2002 D2: The Mighty Duck Konundrum
MIT Mystery Hunt 2007 The Usual Suspects
MIT Mystery Hunt 2008 Son of the Realm of Unspeakable Chaos
MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Isle of Misfit Puzzles

Codenames (game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2018 Shift
MIT Mystery Hunt 2019 Protection Plan
MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Intelligence Collection

Concept (board game)

A guessing game where one player provides clues to the answer by placing markers on some of the icons on a gameboard.

MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 Frog

Connect Four

MIT Mystery Hunt 2006 Connect Four
MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 Halting Problem
MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Colorful Connections

Cookie Run Kingdom

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Cheerful Ruler's Kingdom

Cosmic Encounter

MIT Mystery Hunt 2001 Cosmic Awareness

"Countdown" (British game show)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 Houston, We Have Liftoff
MIT Mystery Hunt 2018 Effective Resource Management in High Stress Situations
MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 A Collection of Conundrums and Riddles

cribbage

MIT Mystery Hunt 2005 Peg O' My Heart

cricket (darts game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2017 Tricky Wicket

Dai Shogi

MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 Large-scale Anthropomorphism

Dance Dance Revolution

MIT Mystery Hunt 2004 Dingy, Dark Reality
MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Nightclub Event

dating simulation

MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 Love at 150 km/h

Decrypto (board game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 Spy Game

Diplomacy (game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2014 Diplomatic Victory
MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 Disorder

Dōbutsu shōgi

A small variant of shogi meant as a children's game

MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 Strange Garnets

Dominion (game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2012 Sovereignty

domino puzzle

(divide the grid into a set of dominoes)

MIT Mystery Hunt 1996 10B
MIT Mystery Hunt 2005 Simple Unassuming Logic Puzzles

Dominosa

See domino puzzle

The Dragon's Tomb (YouTube channel)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 New Rules

DropMix (music-mixing game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2019 Drop and Give Me Ten

Dungeons & Dragons

MIT Mystery Hunt 2003 Campaign Speeches
MIT Mystery Hunt 2011 Sufficiently Advanced Technology
MIT Mystery Hunt 2017 League of Legends & Lore
MIT Mystery Hunt 2019 Insider Trading
MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 Bracketeering
MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Triangles

Dwarf Fortress

MIT Mystery Hunt 2017 Lost in Translation

Escape from Zyzzlvaria

MIT Mystery Hunt 2002 D2: The Mighty Duck Konundrum
MIT Mystery Hunt 2009 Theme and entire hunt structure
MIT Mystery Hunt 2009 Inner Meta-Meta
MIT Mystery Hunt 2010 Round 2 Meta
MIT Mystery Hunt 2019 DK8: The Turducken Konundrum (Turkey)

Escape This Podcast

MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 A Wrinkle in Time

Fact Sphere (Portal 2)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2015 Trivia Round

Fallout 4 (video game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2017 How I Spent My Pre/Post-Apocalyptic Vacation

Fallout: Las Vegas (video game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Steam Library

"Family Feud"

MIT Mystery Hunt 2015 Knowledge

FEN chess notation

Forsyth-Edwards Notation is a way of encoding a chess position into a short string. The board is described row by row, in lexical order (so starting from rank 8). White pieces are represented by their conventional capital letters, black pieces by the corresponding lower case letters, and numbers indicate consecutive runs of that many empty spaces. Slashes separate the rows. Additional symbols after the board indicate other aspects of the game state.

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 A King's Best Friend

Final Fantasy video games

MIT Mystery Hunt 2014 Safer Sephiroth

Fire Emblem games

MIT Mystery Hunt 2023 Anna's Day at the Arena

Fischer random chess

See Chess960

FreeCell (solitaire card game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2017 Patience for the Bridge Builder

Frogger (video game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Look Before You Leap

Funny Farm

The original Funny Farm is a game of graphical Word Association. Associated words are linked by a line, and all the words related to one that you have solved are indicated with boxes to be filled in. Due to there being many paths, you can sometimes get multiple clues to narrow down difficult words.

The first attempt to reproduce this in the Mystery Hunt was a puzzle called Funny Farm in 2011 that overloaded the Hunt server and had to be replaced by a backup puzzle.

MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 Analogy Farm
MIT Mystery Hunt 2023 Collage

gambling games

(see also specific games)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2011 Craps Man Meta

Game Genie

This was a cheat cartidge for various Nintendo video game consoles which allowed players to modify memory, etc.

MIT Mystery Hunt 2019 Your Wish is My Command

games

game shows

MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 Peak Adventure

game shows staged for solvers

MIT Mystery Hunt 2001 Kakorrhaphiophobia!
MIT Mystery Hunt 2002 Win Chris Morse's Money
MIT Mystery Hunt 2007 Greed event
MIT Mystery Hunt 2007 Gluttony event
MIT Mystery Hunt 2009 Intergalactic Pub Trivia event
MIT Mystery Hunt 2010 The Sarge Answers to General Ignorance event
MIT Mystery Hunt 2010 The Cash Corridor (Cash Cab)
MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 Watch Your Back

Gemcraft

(tower defense video game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2010 Tower House

Gen Con

MIT Mystery Hunt 2016 A Most Congenial Odyssey

geoguessr

A web game based on identifying locations from their Google street view photos, located at geoguessr.com.

MIT Mystery Hunt 2014 A Puzzle with the Answer GARCIAPARRA
MIT Mystery Hunt 2018 Middle of the Road

Go Fish

MIT Mystery Hunt 2015 Go Fish!

go (game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2000 Invincible
MIT Mystery Hunt 2004 Ritual Yell Ceremony
MIT Mystery Hunt 2005 Black to Play
MIT Mystery Hunt 2018 Go!

Gringmuth notation

A method for denoting chess games as series of nonsense words based on assigning a syllable to each board square.

MIT Mystery Hunt 2019 Radio Play

GROW web games

MIT Mystery Hunt 2010 Summonings

Guillotine (card game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2019 A Killer Party

gym badges (from Pokémon)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2018 The Scouts

Hanabi (cooperative card game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 Clueless
MIT Mystery Hunt 2023 Set Off Fireworks

hangman

MIT Mystery Hunt 2010 Don't Let Me Down
MIT Mystery Hunt 2011 Execution Grounds
MIT Mystery Hunt 2012 Hang Ten
MIT Mystery Hunt 2015 Colorful Tower Meta
MIT Mystery Hunt 2016 Believe
MIT Mystery Hunt 2023 Conjuri's Request

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft game

MIT Mystery Hunt 2016 Ysera Meta
MIT Mystery Hunt 2016 Ysera Dream Fragment

helpmate

A helpmate is a chess problem where both sides cooperate to achieve a checkmate.

MIT Mystery Hunt 2015 Watch Me Blow This!

Hunt the Wumpus

MIT Mystery Hunt 2011 Making the Possible Impossible
MIT Mystery Hunt 2015 Say Cheese and Dive!

Infocom games

MIT Mystery Hunt 2002 A Superbrief Note
MIT Mystery Hunt 2004 Subterranean

Ingress glyph language

MIT Mystery Hunt 2017 Some Light Hacking

insult swordfighting

(from the Monkey Island games)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2011 Pirate Party Event

iPod Submarine (party game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2019 iPod Submarine

Jenga

MIT Mystery Hunt 2012 Edge of your Seat FUN!

Jotto

MIT Mystery Hunt 2001 Scientology
MIT Mystery Hunt 2006 Data Analysis

Just One (word-guessing game)

A cooperative word-guessing game in which one player must guess a word based on single-word clues provided by each other player.

MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 Watership Down

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 You Will Explode If You Stop Talking

Kingdom of Loathing

MIT Mystery Hunt 2007 Unsound Effects

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

MIT Mystery Hunt 2010 A Letter to the Prince of Kong

knight's tour

As a purely mathematical puzzle, this is simply a challenge to cover each square of a grid once with a series of knight moves (as in chess). But more commonly this same sort of knight's tour occurs on a grid pre-filled with letters, so that words are spelled out along the path.

MIT Mystery Hunt 1994 28
MIT Mystery Hunt 2008 This Puzzle Needs a Title
MIT Mystery Hunt 2010 The Arena
MIT Mystery Hunt 2019 Art Tours
MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 Chairiot Races
MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 Board Members

Konami code

Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start, a code for activating Easter eggs in many video games.

MIT Mystery Hunt 2016 Gaming the System
MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 FedEx

Learned League

MIT Mystery Hunt 2016 A League of Their Own
MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 You Learn Something New Every Day

The Legend of Zelda

MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 Wild West Recipes
MIT Mystery Hunt 2023 The Legend

Lights Out

A video game and its variants. The basic idea is there is a grid of clickable lights. Clicking one changes it from on to off or vice versa, but it also toggles the adjacent lights.

MIT Mystery Hunt 2023 Conjuri's Request

Link's Awakening trading sequence

MIT Mystery Hunt 2016 A Round at the Golf Course

Lost Cities (game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2010 Expeditions

Lotería

A Mexican bingo-like game

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Shade of Wealth

Lovecraft Letter (game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2019 Herbert West, Animator

Love Letter (game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 The Masquerade Ball

Mad Libs

MIT Mystery Hunt 2003 Mad Liberation
MIT Mystery Hunt 2006 Space Invaders
MIT Mystery Hunt 2008 Ski Slopes

Magic: The Gathering

MIT Mystery Hunt 1995 18: Billiard Room
MIT Mystery Hunt 2006 Convocation
MIT Mystery Hunt 2009 I'm Your Magic Man
MIT Mystery Hunt 2011 Sufficiently Advanced Technology
MIT Mystery Hunt 2012 Piercing the Veil
MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 Turnary Reasoning
MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 Magic: The Tappening
MIT Mystery Hunt 2016 Blocks
MIT Mystery Hunt 2018 Your Rival
MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 Horse
MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 Musical Theatre Guild
MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 Something Command
MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 The Champion
MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Queen Marchesa to g4

Mah Jongg

MIT Mystery Hunt 2004 The Merchant's Courtyard
MIT Mystery Hunt 2017 The Despondent Dynast

Mario Kart video games

MIT Mystery Hunt 2011 Mario Kart Event
MIT Mystery Hunt 2023 Formula Deluxe

Mastermind

MIT Mystery Hunt 2005 Change of Clothes
MIT Mystery Hunt 2007 Pride event
MIT Mystery Hunt 2010 Bulls and Cows
MIT Mystery Hunt 2014 Guess What I'm Thinking
MIT Mystery Hunt 2017 The Crafty Criminal
MIT Mystery Hunt 2019 Connect Four
MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 Tech Support
MIT Mystery Hunt 2023 Hall of Archaeology

Mega Man video games

MIT Mystery Hunt 2011 Dr. Wily's Fortress (Mega Man Supermeta)
MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 Circuitboard
MIT Mystery Hunt 2014 Stage Select
MIT Mystery Hunt 2015 Blue Bomber
MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 Sheep

Minecraft game

MIT Mystery Hunt 2015 Steve's Parable
MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Arts and Crafts

Minesweeper game

Classic video game made popular by its inclusion with Windows 3.1, often presented as a static puzzle with a fixed set of clues. You are to locate a set of mines in the grid, given clues which are not on mines themselves but tell how many of the 8 adjacent squares contain mines. A version where clue squares may contain mines (and count their own mine if they do) is called Fill-a-Pix.

The MIT Blackjack Team

A group of students and ex-students of MIT and other prestigious colleges who used card counting and other strategies to beat casinos at blackjack worldwide from about 1979 to 2000.

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Bringing Down the House

MIT Nerdopoly (edition of Monopoly game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2002 Day Tripper

Monopoly game

MIT Mystery Hunt 2002 Theme and structure of the entire hunt
MIT Mystery Hunt 2007 I Only Get a Measly $200?
MIT Mystery Hunt 2010 Around the World in 80 Days (Here and Now editions)
MIT Mystery Hunt 2012 How to Succeed in Real Estate Without Really Buying
MIT Mystery Hunt 2016 High Rollers
MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 The Midway
MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 Pitch Black
MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 First You GO to...
MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 The Hermit Crab

Mornington Crescent

MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 World Series of Mornington Crescent
MIT Mystery Hunt 2019 Riding the Tube

MUDs (multi-user dungeons)

MIT Mystery Hunt 1994 2

Neko Atsume (game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 Endless Practice

Nethack (rogue-like game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2006 Endgame

New York Times Connections game

See Only Connect (British TV game show)

nicknames for playing cards

MIT Mystery Hunt 2016 The Dogged Pursuit of Justice, AKA: Caught Red-Handed

nim

Nim is a mathematical game. The basic version has several piles of chips, and each player in turn picks any pile and removes one or more chips from that pile (including possibly taking the whole pile). There are many variations of the game and a whole area of mathematics based on finding the best strategies for these games.

MIT Mystery Hunt 1996 2B
MIT Mystery Hunt 2017 On Numbers and Games
MIT Mystery Hunt 2019 Bubbly

Nintendo GameCube

MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 Dolphin

OCTOGRAM

A puzzle game created by Jack Lance with 8-letter clues.

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 ENNEAGRAM

Only Connect (British TV game show)

This keyword almost always refers to the "wall" round of Only Connect: a 4x4 grid of words which you have to split into 4 sets of 4, each with a common theme. The game Connections on the New York Times web site is the same basic concept, but as a game you can play rather than a game contestants on TV are trying to solve for money.

MIT Mystery Hunt 2019 Clued Connections
MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 The 4500 Year Itch
MIT Mystery Hunt 2023 My Fun Bow
MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Connecting Connections
MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Climbfinder

Opera Game (1858 chess game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 A Night at the Opera

Operation (game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2017 The Cleric meta
MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 Operation

Othello (game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 1999 Helsinki
MIT Mystery Hunt 2011 You Shall Understand What Hath Befallen
MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Reverse!

Persona video games

MIT Mystery Hunt 2019 Anima Oratorio
MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 Heart of the Cards
MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Aphrodite's Plutonic Affection Connection

phony Scrabble words

MIT Mystery Hunt 2000 Mumbo-Jumbo
MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 Till You Make It
MIT Mystery Hunt 2014 Stronghold Fire
MIT Mystery Hunt 2016 The Case of the Dangerous Game

Pictionary

MIT Mystery Hunt 2005 Telephone Pictionary
MIT Mystery Hunt 2010 The Campus Canvas event
MIT Mystery Hunt 2015 Teamwork
MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 Supporting Character Breakfast
MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 ⊥IWPE: Archery (Event #2)🏹

pinball

MIT Mystery Hunt 2008 Instant Replay
MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Game to Be Themed Later

Plants vs. Zombies

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Persephone

playing cards

MIT Mystery Hunt 1999 Santiago
MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 Uncharted Territory
MIT Mystery Hunt 2014 MIT Meta
MIT Mystery Hunt 2016 The Dogged Pursuit of Justice, AKA: Caught Red-Handed
MIT Mystery Hunt 2016 Quest for the Truth
MIT Mystery Hunt 2017 The Maniacal Merchants
MIT Mystery Hunt 2018 Marked Deck

Pokémon

poker

MIT Mystery Hunt 2000 Secular Fun with Pentagrams
MIT Mystery Hunt 2005 Dogs Playing Poker
MIT Mystery Hunt 2008 Bad Beat Jackpot
MIT Mystery Hunt 2010 Card Tricks
MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 The Downtown Murders
MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 Strange Garnets

Portal (game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2011 Endgame
MIT Mystery Hunt 2011 Puzzle Box
MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 Help I'm Trapped in a Computer

Power Grid (game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 National Power Grid

The Price is Right

MIT Mystery Hunt 2017 Rescue the Economist

Punch Out!! (video game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2019 He's Out

$100,000 Pyramid

A long-running game show based on cluding words and categories to your partner.

MIT Mystery Hunt 1998 14.321 Pyramid Schemes

QI (British game show)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2010 The Sarge Answers to General Ignorance event

Questions (game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 1999 Charlotte Amalie

Quiz Bowl

MIT Mystery Hunt 2023 We Made a Quiz Bowl Packet but Somewhere Things Went Horribly Wrong
MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 It's Not a Well Written Quizbowl Packet But...

QWOP

MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 The Prickly Pear

Red Dragon Inn board game

MIT Mystery Hunt 2018 A Pub Crawl

Redstone circuits

System for embedding logical circuits into Minecraft

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Arts and Crafts

Renfield (game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2001 It's a Bug-Eat-Bug World

retrograde rebus chess puzzles

In these chess puzzles, each type of piece is represented by a different letter, and one side by caps and the other by lower case (rebus, in the chess world). Additionally, you must solve for which piece is which in such a way that the position could be reached in a legal game (retrograde).

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Rretro Chess Puzzle

Reversi

See Othello (game)

rhythm games

Video games akin to Dance Dance Revolution in which you are expected to enter a sequence in sync with the timing of the icons on screen and, to some extent, with the beat of accompanying music.

MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 Rhythm Game Arcade

Ricochet Robots

MIT Mystery Hunt 2003 Bogots

rigged dice

MIT Mystery Hunt 2015 Game

Risk (game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2010 Conquering the World
MIT Mystery Hunt 2015 Golden Tower Meta

Rock Band (game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2009 The Hiigara Dome
MIT Mystery Hunt 2011 Amateur Hour

rock, paper, anything

MIT Mystery Hunt 2007 One, Two, Three, Shoot!

rock, paper, scissors

MIT Mystery Hunt 2009 Genetic Struggle
MIT Mystery Hunt 2010 From the Earth to the Moon
MIT Mystery Hunt 2011 Zombies vs. Zombies Event
MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 Build-a-Wand Workshop

rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock

Expansion of rock, paper, scissors made popular on Big Bang Theory

MIT Mystery Hunt 2015 The Acerbic Sixteen
MIT Mystery Hunt 2019 Insider Trading

Roguelike games

Rogue was the original in a line of games which famously includes Moria, Nethack, Angband, and ADOM, among others. What these games have in common is an ASCII-art interface where each character represents a type of monster, object, wall, etc., and turn-based movement in 4 or 8 principal directions.

MIT Mystery Hunt 2014 Walk Across Some Dungeons
MIT Mystery Hunt 2017 Lost in Translation
MIT Mystery Hunt 2018 Walk Across Some Dungeons 2
MIT Mystery Hunt 2023 Conjuri's Request
MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Roguelikes with a K

role-playing games

MIT Mystery Hunt 2009 Character Test

roulette

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Sahara

RPS101

A version of rock-paper-scissors with 101 possible moves.

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 5050 Matchups

Rummikub

MIT Mystery Hunt 2004 The Answer Fits the Puzzle

Scattergories

In Scattergories, you are asked to think of items that belong to various categories beginning with specific letters of the alphabet.

MIT Mystery Hunt 1997 The Big Bopper, Jim Croce, and Elvis Found Running a Pizza Hut in Beirut!

scholar's mate (chess game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2016 Day 5 Meta

Scotland Yard (board game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2017 Mr. Y Hunt

Scrabble

Scrabble in other languages

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 T (Counts) for Two

Second Life

MIT Mystery Hunt 2009 Your So-Called Second Life

Semantle

A guessing game (named a la Wordle) where you are given responses that indicate how semantically close your guess is to the answer.

MIT Mystery Hunt 2023 Terminal
MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Sumantle

Set (card game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2005 No Child Left Behind
MIT Mystery Hunt 2008 Trouble in Triplicate
MIT Mystery Hunt 2009 Alien Mixer event
MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 A Set of Words
MIT Mystery Hunt 2015 Shipwreck
MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 Strange Garnets

Settlers of Catan (game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2012 Highlights
MIT Mystery Hunt 2017 Ye Olde Seventhe Duck Konunnndrum: The Cones of Duckshire
MIT Mystery Hunt 2017 Hexed Adventure
MIT Mystery Hunt 2018 The Desert

Simon Says

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Directions Event

Small World (game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2012 Highlights

Snake (video game)

Snake is a classic video game where you direct the head of a snake to eat food in marked locations within a grid. Each time the snake eats, it gets longer. When the snake runs into another part of its body, the game ends.

MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 Slinking Slumber

So Clover (word-cluing game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Field of Clovers

Sokoban game

MIT Mystery Hunt 2015 A Push in the Right Direction
MIT Mystery Hunt 2023 Cure the Werewolf's Woe
MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Marathon Block Pushing Game

Solitaire Dominoes

See domino puzzle

Sorry! (board game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Sorry Not Sorry

Spaceteam (app/game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2019 DK8: The Turducken Konundrum (Turkey)
MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 You Will Explode If You Stop Talking

Spaghetti (metapuzzle creation game)

Eric Berlin invented a game where someone picks a random set of words (which are not actually answers for a metapuzzle) and people invent metapuzzles to work with them.

MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 Spaghetti Western

speedruns

Attempts to complete various tasks in video games in the shortest possible time. Sometimes involves ignoring the main goal of the game and/or taking advantage of bugs.

MIT Mystery Hunt 2023 Run the Gamut

Spicks and Specks (Australian quiz show)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 The Puzzle Keeps Turning Upside Down and We Can't Figure Out Why

Spiritfarer video game

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Asphodel

Squaredle word game

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Mausolea

StarCraft

MIT Mystery Hunt 2012 Course 7E
MIT Mystery Hunt 2015 Imba

Stardew Valley (video game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Steam Library

Sugar Rush racers

Characters from a fictional racing game Sugar Rush within the movies Wreck-it Ralph and Ralph Breaks the Internet

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Von Schweetz's Big Question

Super Mario Maker 2

MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 Super Mystery World

Super Smash Bros. Melee

The second video game in the Super Smash Bros. series of crossover fighting games featuring characters from various Nintendo franchises.

MIT Mystery Hunt 2023 Dropypasta

Taboo (word game)

In the original form of this game, a cluer tries to convey a word to his or her teammates, in the style of Password, but in addition to not being allowed to use forms of or parts of the answer, there are five additional related words they are not allowed to use while cluing.

MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 ⊥IWPE: Pistol (Event #4)🔫

Taskmaster

A British game show also known for a board game version, in which contestants/players compete in a series of bizarre tasks, sometimes judged in equally odd ways.

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Do You Measure Up?

Teamfight Tactics (video game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Composing Compositions

Technical Machines (TMs, from Pokémon)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2018 The Advertiser

Telephone (game)

Telephone is a traditional game in which one person tells a secret to another, and that person repeats it to a third person, and so on. The final person reveals what they were told and the players find humor in how the message mutated in retelling.

MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 Shoephone Construction
MIT Mystery Hunt 2023 The Runaround

Terraria (video game)

MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Steam Library

Tetris

MIT Mystery Hunt 1998 4.4444 Structures
MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 Green Building
MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 Nowhere To Hide
MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 Roguelikes with a K

Tetris variations

MIT Mystery Hunt 1997 Elvis Nabbed After Scaling Round Sphere Atop Green Building!
MIT Mystery Hunt 2006 Pentris
MIT Mystery Hunt 2011 N-tris
MIT Mystery Hunt 2014 Falling Into Place

Texas Hold 'Em

MIT Mystery Hunt 2005 Dogs Playing Poker
MIT Mystery Hunt 2008 Bad Beat Jackpot

text adventures

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