In the standard form of this puzzle, clue answers are written on a set of numbered blanks, then transferred into a grid where words (usually spelling a quotation) read only across, wrapping around the ends of rows. Normally, each number appears only once among the answers and the grid contains the letter of the clue which uses that number, so that you can also work from the grid back to the clues. The initial letters of the answers, in clue order, spell out the source of the quotation (sometimes abbreviated).
Also called: Anacrostic puzzle, crostic puzzle
Puzzles
MIT Mystery Hunt 1995 13: Connecticut Suite (Meta)
MIT Mystery Hunt 1995 26: Sitting Room
MIT Mystery Hunt 1997 According to Mafiosi, Mole Only Wanted a Scarf from the King!
MIT Mystery Hunt 1997 Elvis a Trojan? "I Tortured Him Myself," Says 4000-Year-Old Spartan!
MIT Mystery Hunt 1998 19.333 Chaotic Clues
MIT Mystery Hunt 1999 Seattle
MIT Mystery Hunt 2002 Choice Hotels (Cyan Meta)
MIT Mystery Hunt 2002 A Tribute to Seth Bisen-Hersh
MIT Mystery Hunt 2003 Print Room (Blank Check)
MIT Mystery Hunt 2004 On the Briny Deep
MIT Mystery Hunt 2005 This Puzzle Sucks
MIT Mystery Hunt 2006 The Scrambler
MIT Mystery Hunt 2007 UN-Speakable
MIT Mystery Hunt 2008 This Puzzle Needs a Title
MIT Mystery Hunt 2009 The Rumpled Man with a Bowl Cut
MIT Mystery Hunt 2010 The Campus Canvas event
MIT Mystery Hunt 2010 Casting Spells
MIT Mystery Hunt 2010 This is a Recording
MIT Mystery Hunt 2011 Build Your Own Acrostic
MIT Mystery Hunt 2012 Yo Dawg, I Herd You Like Puzzle Hunts
MIT Mystery Hunt 2013 You Will Not Go to Space Today
MIT Mystery Hunt 2015 A Toast
MIT Mystery Hunt 2017 Getting Out of Line
MIT Mystery Hunt 2018 That Time I Somehow Felt Incomplete
MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 Lion
MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 Rat
MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 Lord of the Flies
MIT Mystery Hunt 2023 Lost to Time
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