Wondrous Net

5-Card Stud  is one of the interesting puzzles of the Melbourne University Puzzle Hunt 2015 competition. It was part of the second act of the game and was created by Muhammad Adib Surani, who is also the author of the Mr. Game & Watch ,  Parallel Dimensions  and  Build-A-Puzzle puzzles, as well as  A Guide to the MUMS Puzzle Hunt  feature. The plot of the game that year was based on the Star Wars universe. It casts you as a Padawan. In one of the locations you come across a tablet that spontaneously displays information on the screen. As a result you're given several tasks, including 5-Card Stud. The puzzle was preceded by a short narrative. The flashing [of the tablet] briefly subsides, only to be replaced by a semi-coloured grid. Around the sides are words you'd never heard, and some of the triangles contain symbols you've never seen. What can it all mean? The puzzle consists of a 5x5 grid, each square of which is further divided diagonally int...

Build Your Own Sudoku is one of the interesting puzzles of the MIT Mystery Hunt 2014 competition. The plot of the game that year was based on Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there". The puzzle featured a blank Sudoku grid with four sets of clues. The first three sets were needed to fill in the puzzle's initial numbers: they corresponded to the sectors, rows and columns of the grid respectively. The last set corresponded to the grid's numbers and was needed to get the answer to the puzzle after solving the Sudoku. The puzzle was part of the Lobby 7 section of the game and was created by Robbie Buckingham. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I Sectors Northwest No square with a given number in the Northwest Sector touches another square with a given number in the same sector along an edge. (In general we say a square touches another if it is the same square or it sha...

Psychoanalytix is one of the interesting puzzles of the Melbourne University Puzzle Hunt 2013 competition. The plot of the game that year was based on the characters from the Asterix & Obelix comics, and each of its puzzles was related to one of the inhabitants of the Gaul village or to one of the Romans. Psychoanalytix is ​​one of the villagers, his puzzle was part of the fifth act of the game. The puzzle was preceded by an image of this character, as well as a brief description of him: "A trailblazing druid, Psychoanalytix determined that it is the interference between left and right hemispheres of the brain that plays a critical role in the formation of thoughts." The puzzle consisted of a 12x10 grid. In the lower left corner was the S square (start); in the upper right corner was the F square (finish). Some squares contained numbers from 0 to 5. Additionally, the grid contained five line fragments, each occupying two squares. The puzzle was preceded by a hint. Its c...

Cacophony  is one of the puzzles of the Melbourne University Puzzle Hunt 2005 competition co-authored by the founder of Wikileaks, and likely organizer of the Cicada 3301 community, Julian Assange (the other author of the puzzle is James Saunderson). The puzzle was part of the fifth act of the game and was consisted of eight lines of notes. It was preceded by a short narrative that moved the script forward and served as a hint. Glad to finally have some lighting, you pull a box of matches out of your pocket and light a candle, grabbing another handful for later. The extra lighting doesn’t help much — the passage is still mostly gray stone, cobwebs and dust. Your wanderings have got your circulation working however, and so you now devote some time to considering how to escape these cellars, and get back to tracking down the coin. The silence of the passages is unexpectedly broken by a distant voice, the same one you heard during yesterday’s mystery, uttering a strange l...