Puzzles and puzzle hunts
A growing list of regular puzzle hunts and other places to find hunt-style puzzles
Introductions
Introduction to Puzzlehunts
not part of the ongoing series, but you can almost pretend it is. This sentence and the one before it are not a puzzle. Imagine a word search.Now imagine you aren’t told what words to look for.Now imagine you aren’t told it’s a word search.Now imagine it isn’t a word search. — Mike Develin, vi…
Upcoming hunts
Visit the Puzzle Hunt Calendar organized by Dan Egnor
Regular hunts
All links below have substantial archives of past hunts.
- Galactic Puzzle Hunt — Annual-ish hunt
- Mark Halpin's Labor Day extravaganza — Annual hunt released Labor Day weekend
- MUMS — Annual hunt out of Melbourne
- P&A Puzzle Magazine — Bimonthly subscription-based extravagazna
- Puzzle Boat 9 — PANDA's very large online extravaganza.
- REDDOT hunt
- Puzzletome
- Hadtoplayon.com
Site-specific hunts
- MIT Mystery Hunt — every MLK weekend in Cambridge
- BAPHL — recurring hunt in Boston
- DASH — every September in dozens of cities worldwide
- DCPHR — recurring hunt in D.C.
- Puzzled Pint — every 2nd Tuesday, in over 60 cities worldwide
Crosswords & cryptics
Catalog of crosswords, cryptics, & word puzzles
Contact me with corrections or links that you’d like to see included. CrosswordsDailyNew York TimesLA TimesNewsdayWall Street JournalUSA TodayWeekly or BiweeklyAmerican Values ClubNew YorkerBrendan Emmett QuigleyMatt Gaffney’s Weekly ContestWashPo Sunday Crossword, by Evan BirnholzThe Inkubator, puz…
Sandy Weisz
Individual puzzles
One-pagers
- Puzzlesnacks
- Dave's Puzzles (archive of puzzle hunt contributions)
- @pandamagazine — P&A Magazine
- @pzlr — Mystery League puzzles
Mailing lists
Other kinds of puzzles
Podcasts
Reality Escape Pod - Room Escape Artist
On the Reality Escape Pod your hosts David Spira & Peih-Gee Law explore escape rooms & immersive gaming with inspiring guests.
Escape This Podcast
A show that’s a mix of escape room puzzles and tabletop role-playing....
PodBean DevelopmentHeadgum // Hey Riddle Riddle
Riddles! Puzzles! WhoDunnits! Adal Rifai, Erin Keif and John Patrick Coan, three of Chicago’s most overrated improvisers, are on the case to solve every riddle, puzzle, brain-teaser, and head-scratcher known to humanity. Some riddles are almost impossible, some are absolutely improbable, and some si…
The Extraction
A podcast about puzzles and the people who make them. In each episode, we’ll walk with authors through the solve path of one of their puzzles to talk about its inner workings and how it was made. Along the way, we’ll get into why we write puzzles,...
Other lists
- List of Puzzle Hunts on puzzles.wiki
- List of Puzzle Media on puzzles.wiki
- LockQuest's list of puzzle hunts
- Puzzability (Shenk, Goldstein, Leighton)