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Data on pure-meta-styled puzzles from publicly available puzzlehunts
https://github.com/cjquines/meta-data

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Data on pure-meta-styled puzzles from publicly available puzzlehunts

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cjquines/meta-data
• Owner: cjquines
• Created: 2021-03-22T21:05:02.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-02-07T00:24:43.000Z (11 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-24T19:48:07.152Z (about 1 month ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: https://cjquines.com/meta-data/
• Size: 499 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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# meta-data

Data on pure-meta-styled puzzles from publicly available puzzlehunts. The main file is [src/metadata.yaml](src/metadata.yaml), which is converted to [src/metadata.json](src/metadata.json).

Browse random metas from meta-data on [my website](https://cjquines.com/meta-data/).

A "pure-meta-styled puzzle" expects the solver to combine several words and phrases (the "feeders") to create a new answer. The puzzle should has no content other than the feeders, and possibly flavor text, the puzzle title, and other small bits of info. It's a subjective definition and I'm using my judgment to determine what goes in and what doesn't. Consider [Fortune Cookies](https://2018.galacticpuzzlehunt.com/puzzle/fortune-cookies.html) and [Spaceopolis](http://puzzles.mit.edu/2020/puzzle/spaceopolis/), one of which is in the list and one which is not.

The schema is:

```yaml

- feeders:

    - list of feeders

    - in alphabetical order,

    - or the order necessary to solve the meta,

    - if that information is not in the feeders alone

  answer:

    - list of answers

    - possibly multiple, most have one

  tags:

    - syntactic, semantic (or both)

    - kind of ad hoc which tags get added otherwise

    - but think of it as a "poor man's hint"

  flavor: flavor text

  note: |

    any additional info necessary to solve the meta using

    just the above information, e.g. puzzle title

  source:

    hunt: hunt abbreviation (see below)

    year: |

      year of hunt. for hunts that run multiple times

      a year, can be something like "Spring 20XX"

    puzzle: URL

    solution: URL

```

Indexed hunts:

- MITMH: MIT Mystery Hunt (2000 to 2023)

- GPH: Galactic Puzzle Hunt (2017 to 2023)

- teammate: teammate hunt (2020 to 2021)

- Halpin: Mark Halpin's Labor Day Extravaganza (2006 to 2023)

- REDDOT: REDDOThunt (2017 to 2022)

- Caltech: Caltech Puzzle Hunt (2018)

- Silph: Silph Puzzle Hunt (2021)

- Paradox: Paradox Puzzlehunt (2021)

- Rojak: Puzzle Rojak (2021)

- QOPH: Quantum Online Puzzle Hunt (2022)

- Huntinality: Huntinality (2021 to 2023)

- ECPH: EC Puzzle Hunt (2023)

- Shardhunt: Shardhunt (2023)

- MSPH: Microsoft Puzzle Hunt (2023)

I'm open to adding more hunts as long as both puzzles and solutions are publicly available online, and the hunt has a stable URL (which excludes, say, the Mystery Hunt, until it is archived). Contributions welcome.