Welcome to THE NIGHT BEFORE! As the production of Cruzzle Hunt 1, THE SPECTER OF THE SHOW, is taking longer than anticipated, I wanted to provide a "micro-hunt" as a teaser for the hunt to come. This serves as a (fully optional) prologue to the story of the main hunt, and is composed of three feeder puzzles and a single meta. These puzzles will be more difficult than those in Puzzle Trek, and are representative of what the easier puzzles in The Specter of the Show will look like.
As of the time I'm writing this, a testsolve of the first draft of the upcoming hunt has finished, and based on the feedback so far, I'm confident that the past year or so of work has been worth the effort. This website is probably the closest I will get to writing hunt puzzles on a professional level. I plan to provide The Specter of the Show and future Cruzzle Hunts on this website at absolutely no cost, but I am providing a donation link below to provide a way of financially supporting me to those who would like to. I don't feel entitled to ask for any compensation for my independent puzzles, but I've recently been looking for ways of improving my current financial situation, and I figure a donation link is the most I feel comfortable with doing here to that end. Any donations are appreciated, but even at no cost, I am so blessed that these puzzles have any audience, and I am happy to be providing them for free.
Ok, enough of that. This hunt is live; there is no leaderboard, no official set of rules, no proper end date (solutions are now up!). As a new addition to the site, I have implemented copy-to-clipboard buttons to all puzzles in this hunt! I am confident they work in current versions of Chrome, and semi-confident that they work in Firefox. I will be available for hint requests/errata reports via Discord (@rickycruz) and email (rickycruzmedia@gmail.com), though I may be slower to respond via email. Enjoy the hunt, and look forward to The Specter of the Show later this year!