Research Teams

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As a sister sub to /r/HarryPotter, the four house subreddits combine on Discord to compete against each other to solve Harry Potter themed puzzles against the clock. For this, Hogwarts is teaming up to solve together against other teams!

Testing unicode support and alphabetization for three years.

We are the Front Solve Friends (TM). Formerly the Backsolve Boys (TM), we've been bested by past hunts from our backsolving habits, so we've rebranded ourselves to be

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Immoral, Illegal & Fattening, Attorneys at Law, has been providing quality legal representation to a wide varieties of dubious yet tasty activities since our founding in 2004.

Shower Pomelo is a team primarily comprised of recent alums from Caltech. We want everyone to have fun and improve their solving skills.

“I kind of lost track of time. There were puzzles involved...”
A group of fantasy nerds, friends-of-fantasy-nerds, and people who really
just love puzzles! There’s always another secret.

chilling in a hot tub

2 Minutes is all you need. Puzzle Attempters by Day, Arcade Junkies by Night.
1 2 3 4 5 6, Do It!

Just a set of beginning puzzlers that love *associating* with each other, sharing a common *identity*, appreciating those who speak *in verse*, and finally finishing off this bad pun for a sense of *closure* 😅

Just keep chugging

Amateur Hour is a young team that's casual-paced and prioritizes fun, sleep, food, and the occasional puzzle over the weekend.

A ragtag collection of Swedish, British and German puzzle-solvers who've met through the Arcane Game competition. -. . .-. -..

This team is small in size. We don't expect to win the prize. In Medford at address 51 is where we will be having fun.

Brew City friends and family puzzling for the glory of the Great Lakes.

Very casual AoPS group :)

Bagel bagel bagel

Baymax, Gogo, Hiro, Wasabi, Honey Lemon and Fred do puzzles :)

A small group of family and friends spread around the US.

We are a group of somewhat-seasoned puzzlers that enjoy punishment and failure!

We are a rag tag team of puzzle hunters surviving a global pandemic with nothing more than our wits and reliable internet access.

Family team with 1 alum, 1 MIT '23, and five or more assorted relatives.

Group of osu! players and friends

we're b2puzzled

poggers

Just for fun puzzle hunters

Scrappy band of degenerate puzzlers

We would be together, except Casper has been a naughty boy.

A team of game and puzzle players. We are 7 strong and ready to win.

Low-level bureaucrats escape the monotony of their day-to-day lives through a recurring daydream of themselves as virtuous puzzle-solving heroes. While on a quest to find a mysterious coin, they get caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy, and lies.

MIT grads from the 90s who all lived in Baker.

Accepting new members: https://discord.gg/2BR66z8D

crossworld puzzlers

a batch of adoughable weirdoughs who knead to win

The city was laid out like a CUBE, 12000 stadia on a side, and 144 cube bits THICK. The wall was made of JASPER, and the city of GOLD, as pure as GLASS.

We are a team of 7 friends who like puzzles and comfy vibes :)

A group of friends who are exactly average at solving Mystery Hunt puzzles

No one is cooler than us, not even a cold piscola in the summer. CA + CL

A group of logic puzzle enthusiasts from the Cracking the Cryptic Discord server!

A Stanford a cappella group. Which one? Well, that’s a mystery.

After a brief experiment with Life and Order in 2018, Death and Mayhem is pleased to return to the chaotic evil corner of the alignment chart, as we feel it more appropriately reflects the modern day zeitgeist. We're thrilled to spread both Death and Mayhem across the globe.

We hail from the chaotic state of Florida and so are prepared for anything to come. Derived from the integirls competition we are the Derivaboys and are ready to compete.

Marie

We are a ragtag group of puzzling pioneers, snowed in and running out of food. As we solve puzzles our number mysteriously decreases...

Honk honk

We're a rag tag team of trees and beyond who are excited to solve some puzzles!

Duck Soup was founded by MIT students in 2008, from the merger of two groups of friends who were all interested in taking on the Mystery Hunt. These days, we’re a casual and welcoming bunch of puzzle enthusiasts, including a handful of MIT alumni; we keep in touch online.

EECS PhD students

They Atrus cause they ain't us

Papá puedes oírme? Papá puedes escucharme? Papá puedes ayudarme a no tener miedo?

Our team is primarily composed of players of /r/PictureGame and we solve puzzles. It's a cool sub, check it out!

Nothing to say here, except that we all like boardgames, beer, and burgers.

Smattering of folk in the upper Midwest enjoy that puzzle thrill, dontcha know!

ET Phone in Answer consists primarily of current and former members of ET, an MIT independent living group.

We're ninth-graders, show some mercy

Chess playing puzzle attempters from the South West of England

We're a small online-only team of novice puzzlers from the The Genius and Survivor online fan communities. Fighting!

Kaitlin

we are a small team of puzzle/cipher solvers and creators who
thought we should give this a shot

Is this thing on? OH WOW!

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.
A medium-sized team formed by Theta Xi in 2007, now composed of weird alums and friends having a good time and trying to solve all the puzzles.

Escape room teams Fury and VJLD join friends and forces!

Team from Australia who finds games too hard.

Hi! Please feel free to join if you want to casually puzzle with some Googlers / MIT alumni :) Happy Hunting!

We are a gaggle of casual (non-competitive) puzzlers who are here to have a good time.

Founded in 2008, Grand Unified Theory of Love is a non-competitive team dedicated to having fun and solving puzzles. Our team size tends to be in 20-30 range. We like rubber ducks, team t shirts, and eating burritos.

Halibut That Bass is a research group of experts in the fields of Marine Biology and Cognitive Science, founded in 2020. They will be exhibiting a poster for their study "Problem-Solving Skills in Hippoglossus hippoglossus and Micropterus salmoides" at MYST 2021.

We're second time mystery hunt solvers from New York City and San Francisco. Many of us are Rutgers University alumni.

No.

We're two non-MIT noobs who like puzzles and are just looking to have fun (don't expect to win or maybe even finish since we know the hunts are pretty big things with much larger teams). We hope that that's ok!

MIT Econ PhD First Years

your friendly neighborhood goose squad

In 2014 a very large Random Hall-based team won Mystery Hunt. After writing 20,000 puzzles for the 2015 Hunt, One Fish Two Fish Random Fish Blue Fish split into several smaller teams, one of which became Hunches in Bunches. We're mostly Random Hall alums and friends.

A.k.a. Hog Deniers

Astronomers and their friends return for their sixth hunt as I'm not a Planet Either! We're not confined by IAU definitions. We welcome all from across the Universe!

Stay positive, test negative 💗

Jreatest of all time

We are the sun , we are the moon , we are the man the woman and the child , we are khottab aal beb .

A tiny little team of people who love puzzles but aren't very good at them. Perpetually on the verge of civil war due to the inability to see eye to eye as to whether or not mushrooms are amazing, or an atrocity.

Remote-only team out of Minneapolis/St. Paul, comprised of puzzle and game designers.

We are a group of MIT alumni (and friends) who started solving puzzles together during the pandemic.

A team of Cryptic Crackers!

From Brooklyn and Pittsburgh with love and chocolate, respectively.

Small, casual team of friends looking to solve puzzles, have fun, and do better than expected.

We're a team of recent Canada/USA Mathcamp alums!

6 online friends from Games World of Puzzles

Once upon a time, Her Majesty adopted a Princess, a hedgehog, and a rock. Not a puzzle, just our origin story, as luck would have it.

冲！

Meet Vish and Mike.

Looking! The blitz loop
This planet to search way
Only my railgun can shoot it.

Misremembered?! Apple!

MIT Club of Northern California team

Definitely the MIT University Band. Not the MIT Marching Band, or any other MIT band. Don't worry about it if talk a lot about another small liberal arts school up the street -- no, never mind, you've probably never heard of it anyway.

A one-year-only agglomeration of puzzle-curious folks who've never Hunted before, Hunt vets who never travel to MIT, and a few experienced die-hards. And snakes.

The Muskegon Gaming Annex is a modern day Cheers, reimagined as a board game clubhouse. Our virtual alliance, like our physical counterpart, welcomes gamers from all walks of life.

Casual first-time hunters from Denmark.

A group of work colleagues who have no idea what they're letting themselves in for...

Relatively new team of current students and alums from MIT's Next House!

We're people closely or loosely connected with Newman College at the University of Melbourne who are interested in having fun attempting to solve some puzzles

We are a group of friends who enjoy getting together and solving puzzles. When asked if anyone had ideas for a team name 4 different people answered Nope. At the time this was the majority of the team and that became our name. We have no goals of winning and are here to have fun.

💀 No sleep, only solve 💀

We.... We don't remember who we are.
Our only goal is to find the coin.

OM NOM NOM NOM!

File under GV1491-GV1507. Missing item? The MIT Libraries will put it on search.

Large team, open to everybody (until we get too crowded), with a wide range of experience, from professional constructors to curious newbies.

just some people working their magic while having a good time

We are a tiny group of goofs who like puzzles.

😇🤔🧩

🐣 Press F to pay respects 🐣

When the Union’s inspiration through the workers blood shall run, there can be power greater anywhere beneath the sun. What force on earth is weaker than the feeble voice of one.

Six years ago a crack team was sent to Mystery Hunt for a puzzle crime they didn't commit. They promptly escaped from a maximum-security intro round to the Baltimore underground. Today, they survive as solvers of fortune. If you have a puzzle, maybe you can hire: Puzzkill.

Friends of puzzlebunny.com, based in Cambridge, UK.

We are from a division of the Papua New Guinea military. We are interested in learning about the intelligence of the smartest individuals in the United States, therefore we have decided to send a squadron to participate in this event.

We hail from all over, and slay puzzles that stand in our way.

RHT is the Random Hall Team. We're made up of (r)undergrads, (h)cruft, and (t)friends

Arturo Vial is a puzzle writer/solver based in Santiago, Chile.

RTC comprises a wide range of hunters, from total newbies to puzzlers with over a decade of experience. We are small but mighty, with members as local as Cambridge and as far as Germany.

The Richie Bears are composed of a strange glowing substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.

Hi everybody.

A small group of puzzle lovers

Setec Astronomy has too many secrets. We've written 5 Hunts and we range from current undergrads to visiting scholars. We aim to be a beacon in your sad and lonely lives.

Just for fun

Singles Ready to Stay Inside consists of MacGregor E entry (former) residents who prefer staying inside and puzzling to braving the cold wind tunnel. Runarounds turn them into Singles Reluctantly Willing to Go Outside for Puzzles, but they should stay true to their name this year

Rain

Connected series of retail stores relating to domesticated South American camelids, but not large ones. Almost but not quite entirely unlike a palindrome.

Smung Institute. Uncontrollable Intelligence.

Mmm, nothing better to start your morning then pecans full of the taste of motor oil, chili & the good ol nutritional yeast.

A group of puzzlers (and friends) mainly hailing from Singapore, and more!

Small team looking to solve some puzzles.

In 2018, we solved one puzzle. In 2019, we solved two. In 2020, we solved four. At this exponential rate of growth, we will eventually finish a hunt.

Lindsay and Alex

Scientifically talented astrophysicists showcasing tough assignments solved through a sophisticated theoretical approach, sufficiently thorough analysis, strategic tinkering, and supernumerary trial attempts.

MIT Alumni Club of San Diego affiliated team. [Internet] surfers - here we come!

Some MIT alums and their kids.

Brand new team!

A team representing lesswrong.com, an online community dedicated to improving our reasoning and decision-making.

The premier LFA puzzle hunting team, composed of Bioengineers,
Biochemists, Theatre Kids, and Caxys.

We're Team Bluefish! We publish The Curious Elevator of Mr. Hincks, The Curious Stairs of Mr. Hincks and the Hincksville Gazette at teambluefish.com

An amateur group with five first time hunters, excited to see the hunt!

Disgruntled employees of Penny Park seeking to slowly build up our reputation and maybe run a new park in a couple years.

Having been on a couple of different teams, some of the members of TPT have been puzzling since 2003. Never going to win, we like it like that

Team Rebellion are the owners and motley crew of the narrowboat Rebellion travelling the waters of the UK, plus their friends.

There are seven of us.

Born in Normalville (2005), Team Unseen’s powers of invisibility have not kept us from being seen in the top third of many Mystery Hunt rankings. We are mostly a mix of MIT alumni, their friends and an odd accumulation of puzzlers spread across the globe. We're here to have fun.

We are teammate, an MIT Mystery Hunt team largely composed of current and former students affiliated with puzzling groups from MIT, CMU, and UC Berkeley. teammate was first inaugurated by a group of MIT students six years ago. See our recent hunt https://teammatehunt.com!

I’m a person who likes puzzles.

Theoretical scientists & biochemical innovators dedicated to furthering our understanding of OH GOD BEES OH GOD WHY THEY'RE EVERYWHERE BEES OH GOD

First major puzzle hunt for the team, but there's no way we lose

A half-baked team of glazy friends, we’re just a hole bunch of sweet people choc full of knowledge we’ve frosted over the years, with a sprinkling on toroids. Our motto: Do or donut, there is no fry. (Don’t be jelly. It’s eclaire that we will get dunked on.)

Former coworkers who are just playing for fun

We are a puzzle hunt making club from Commonwealth School who might not be able to do this because we also have exams.

HR '88 grads along for the ride

🛸🎏🐟🐟🐟🛏️�☃️🥑☃️🛸🚀🏙️🌃🦭4 (the number):charmander:🌌🤔🤨🧐🦦🏢🍔{vw}

We team phoenix are an amalgam of intelligence, confidence, and deep ethical values! We strive to do our work with full dedication. Truth is singular and its versions are mistruth, thus we know the key is one though many solutions may mislead us. Teamwork best describes us.

A team with strong roots in Rhode Island, though now scattered like leaves throughout the biosphere. This is our 11th hunt, though our first with the new name.

♾▶ℹ👨‍🎓ℹ😩☠️☠️☁☁☁👦.
▶🐕🏌️‍👨‍🔬👨‍🔬👨‍✖✖🤷‍🤷‍🤷‍‍‍ℹ🥇🥉.⏯🐕🔪🧑👋👋👋. 🐕😩😩👋👋👋☠☠☁☁🕴🕴🕴.
⏪🦹‍‍🦹‍🔪🔪🔪🎲🎲. 🎁🛄🤪☠☠☁☁☁👩‍⚖‍🤣🤣🤣.😂😂👶😆😆. 😂😂⏸⏸⏸👩‍⚕👩‍⚕‍👩‍⚕‍. 🦹‍🦹‍‍👨‍🎤🤷‍‍🔜😖😖. ℹ💭🎭🎲😃, 🦹‍‍👩‍⚕‍🔪🔪🔪👦.
😩. 🥺👨👨👨👨, 🦹‍‍🦹‍👩‍⚕‍🔨🤬👦. 🛑🐍😩☀.

We were going to name our team this year, but couldn't agree on a voting method. Our team hopes to be strong enough to complete the Hunt, but emphasizes the experience for newer solvers. Anybody who's new to Mystery Hunt and looking for a team to join is welcome!

We are pressure. We are fear incarnate. We are...TORR!

We are a group of 3 friends, highly interested in logical reasoning and fun puzzles. We currently live in the United Arab Emirates, but studying online university from different parts of the world. We would love to take part in this challenge and give it out best shot.

Some guys who met through an online game looking for puzzles to solve.

Co-captains Ryan Lang and Alisa Marshall began Hunting in 1999 during their freshman year at MIT. The next year, they founded Up Late, which has grown to include friends, friends of friends, and a whole gang from Redmond. We finished the Hunt in 2015 & 2017. We are NOT A Plate.

Coming to you from LA... and other cities all over the globe: ACM at UCLA Puzzle Club uwu

started from the bottom now we're still at the bottom

Yeah

Proud puzzlers of the most porous place on the planet!

Two houses, one game. United in their love for the game and in the spirit of competition. Our puzzling endeavors started with conquering Zahada and have ultimately lead us to this final challenge.

https://youtu.be/B1u0TtqiGxw

We are a brand-new group of puzzlers and puzzle-inclined people who love space and are based in Southern California!

A bunch of (mostly) German speaking folks from (mostly) Austria and Germany, of whom one has wanted to participate remotely for years now and needs to admit that this is probably the best opportunity that will ever present itself. (Thanks Corona! 😆)

Magic Australians