Resources for Beginners

If you are just starting as a solver in the MIT Mystery Hunt, some of the resources below may prove useful. We have included some readings on the general art of puzzle solving, and links to a few selected puzzles that you can use for practice.

Introductions

• Beginner's Guide, from Mission Street
• Puzzling Basics, from Puzzled Pint
• Introduction to Puzzlehunts, by Brian Chen
• Left Out recorded their 2020 How to Hunt Workshop:
  • Part 1: Introduction
  • Part 2: Sample Puzzle
  • Part 3: Sample Puzzle cont’d
  • Part 4: Meta Puzzles
  • Part 5: Tech Tools
  • Part 6: Tech Tools cont’d
• How to Hunt Workshop from One Fish, Two Fish, Random Fish, Blue Fish in 2016

Other Readings

• Puzzle Solving Guide, from mezzacotta
• Acme's "Have You Tried" (PDF), by ACME
• Thinking About Puzzles, by Allen Rabinovich
• The Atlantic's Guide to Solving Cryptic Clues, The Atlantic Monthly
• Sarcone and Waeber's Rules to Puzzle Solving, Archimedes-lab.org
• betaveros's "Have You Tried"
• teammate Hunt's "Have You Tried"

Selected Puzzles

To be added soon!