puzzlehunt

noun

Etymology

From puzzle + hunt. Coined by Bruce Leban in 1998 for the Microsoft Puzzlehunt.

  1. derived from *ḱent-
  2. inherited from *huntōn
  3. inherited from huntian
  4. inherited from hunten
  5. compounded as puzzlehunt — “puzzle + hunt

Definitions

  1. A game where teams compete to solve puzzles, the answers to which reveal the location of…

    A game where teams compete to solve puzzles, the answers to which reveal the location of a hidden treasure or allow the teams to accomplish a final goal. The puzzle answers are frequently combined in a metapuzzle.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for puzzlehunt. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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