Puzzlehunts

Our team, Team Providence (this year named The Providence Bureau of Invest-Egg-Ations), won the MIT Mystery Hunt! Yay, that means we get to write next year’s hunt (which will be lots of work, but also a unique experience!). Incidentally, this post is part of the April Cools blog series for 2026. Now, I’m not sure many of these words actually make sense to most of my readers yet, so this post is all about what puzzle hunts are, which ones I’ve been involved with, and my experience with the MIT...