PUZZLE TREK
a mini Cruzzle Hunt
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Welcome to Puzzle Trek! This is a "mini-hunt" that originally ran from May 17th-25th, 2025. There were no official rules to this hunt, as I wanted this to be a relatively lax event, but there is a leaderboard of teams that finished during the hunt at the bottom of this landing page.
HUNT DETAILS
This hunt consists of two rounds, each with a meta. Counting those metas, there are a total of 16 puzzles. The recommended team size is 1-4 solvers (I always suggest solving in a group, but this hunt should be more than doable solo). Solvers are not expected to look at any source code in order to solve any puzzles. Due to the limitations of the hunt site, there is no account system, and no tracking of hunt progress server-side or client-side, so solvers will need to keep track of their own puzzle answers and solving progress (puzzle pages will have answer checkers). For the best hunt experience, I recommend navigating the hunt site in Chrome or Firefox.
I'm still available to provide hints even though the hunt has ended; the best way to contact me is on Discord (@rickycruz), as I'll be most likely to provide a quicker response there, but I can also be contacted via email at rickycruzmedia@gmail.com. I'll do my best to make sure hint requests are answered by the end of the day I receive them (Pacific Time), but now that the hunt is over I may not be fully on top of checking for new hint requests. Errata can be reported to me at the same contact info; if sending an email, please include "Errata" and the puzzle title in the subject line so I'm more likely to get to it quickly.
ADDITIONAL INFO
This hunt comes with a bit of context to help set solver expectations: I originally wrote this hunt last year as a birthday gift for my partner, not knowing I would later adapt it into a public puzzle hunt. I decided to make this hunt public for the simple reason that I am preparing to set up a site for my upcoming large-scale hunt, and with very limited web design experience, I wanted to get some experience via a smaller hunt site so I can be adequately prepared to work on "the big hunt".
The two major factors in the writing of this hunt are that every puzzle relates to one of my partner's special interests (some of which may be a bit niche), and that my partner is relatively new to puzzle hunts altogether. The end result for solvers is that these puzzles are heavier on reverse image search and wiki-hunting, and lighter on difficulty outside of that. While this is pretty different from many hunts (including hunts I'll be releasing in the future), you can expect this hunt to be the strongest in its variety and its presentation, both of which I am particuarly excited about. Hopefully it's enjoyable, and gives a bit of a taste of what upcoming Cruzzle Hunts will look like; all that said, good luck, and have fun!
๐ LEADERBOARD ๐
(times are in PDT)
๐ช๐ฆ๐ฎ - Completed Saturday 5/17 at 11:17AM
beep boop puzzles go brrr (Members: Skynet) - Completed Saturday 5/17 at 12:01PM
Discovering Anomalous Nebulae (Members: Matt Clemson, Cait, ManicVolcanic, Archdavidsan) - Completed Saturday 5/17 at 12:23PM
Vehemence (Members: 7max18, awesome_cupcake, taters, roboticelli, tromboneknuckles) - Completed Saturday 5/17 at 1:21PM
kri - Completed Saturday 5/17 at 2:32PM
Quarantine Decrypters -Enterprise (Members: FlameZ, Edam, Rinqed, Sealed) - Completed Saturday 5/17 at 3:26PM
Andy and Darren (Members: Andy, Darren) - Completed Saturday 5/17 at 3:29PM
kwargers (Members: Aziz, shiny) - Completed Saturday 5/17 at 9:51PM
honkerino poggerino (Members: ethan, qin, julian, izzy) - Completed Saturday 5/17 at 10:13PM
PERSON NAME OVERWATCH PLAYER COLORFUL DESCRIPTOR ENDEARING MONIKER DUBIOUS ACCOMPLISHMENT ONLINE HANDLE ANIME GIRL #1 FAN + friends - Completed Saturday 5/17 at 10:41PM
Vraal, Gabby, and SleepyWeeb - Completed Saturday 5/17 at 10:49PM
ๅชๆ้้ฟไธๆไปฅๆ (Members: SilverHawk, DriKe, ๆๆฏ้ฉฌ็ฒ) - Completed Sunday 5/18 at 1:00AM
๐๐ฝ JUST INDEX - Completed Sunday 5/18 at 1:24AM
alex & jh - Completed Sunday 5/18 at 1:40AM
VehemEvolt - Completed Sunday 5/18 at 1:52AM
Hungry Space (Members: Little Ji) - Completed Sunday 5/18 at 5:29AM
ๆๅญ÷็ๆถๅฟ (Members: ๅจๅไธๆตท) - Completed Sunday 5/18 at 8:51AM
Mathemagicians... Oops nO Name - Completed Sunday 5/18 at 9:36AM
City of Lyrudis (Members: Syfirry) - Completed Sunday 5/18 at 11:07AM
๐ฑ (Members: Jeff D) - Completed Sunday 5/18 at 12:47PM
chimpaznee - Completed Sunday 5/18 at 1:02PM
Team Sam But Inspace - Completed Sunday 5/18 at 5:34PM
Aronfrim Pioneer Hotel ๐ (Members: -Ravenling-) - Completed Monday 5/19 at 2:07AM
Corey - Completed Monday 5/19 at 10:36AM
Andrea & Tubu - Completed Monday 5/19 at 3:24PM
Team Sleepy Bat - Completed Monday 5/19 at 4:41PM
๐๐ถ️๐ก️ (Members: Joigysk) - Completed Monday 5/19 at 6:59PM
Solo Solver - Completed Monday 5/19 at 10:47PM
Memoirs of Cooperation Fatigue (Members: Memoirs of Death, Fiddlebog, Exhaustrovert) - Completed Tuesday 5/20 at 7:59AM
Cruzzle CrUW - Completed Tuesday 5/20 at 8:41AM
chocoMint - Completed Tuesday 5/20 at 11:32AM
RSVPuzzle - Completed Tuesday 5/20 at 7:53PM
๐➡️๐ข (Members: Basil, Cam, Jane, Luke, Procyon, Tuesday) - Completed Tuesday 5/20 at 9:14PM
Clwonin's Circus (Members: Vinson, Harrison, Andy, Michael) - Completed Tuesday 5/20 at 11:08PM
PokerFaz (Members: PokerFaz) - Completed Wednesday 5/21 at 4:55AM
Madmahogany - Completed Wednesday 5/21 at 8:22PM
Clash & Acetyl (Members: ClashใฎRPC, AcetylCholine233) - Completed Thursday 5/22 at 9:47AM
Chasemad5 - Completed Thursday 5/22 at 6:31PM
Dance Biscuits - Completed Saturday 5/24 at 9:09AM
More About Vikings - Completed Saturday 5/24 at 11:52 PM