Puzzlehunt I: The Microsoft Games (August 13-15, 1999) Microsoft has a rich tradition of puzzle events, including Microsoft Puzzle Safari, College Puzzle Challenge, Microsoft Intern Puzzleday and Microsoft Iron Puzzler, but Microsoft Puzzlehunt remains the 'main event' for puzzle solvers in the Microsoft community. In general, teams are no larger than 12, at least 4 must be current Microsoft employees, and at least 6 must be current or former employees. The Microsoft Puzzlehunt takes place over a weekend at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington, usually lasting approximately 31 hours from beginning to end. Microsoft Puzzlehunt was founded by Bruce Leban, along with Roy Leban and Gordon Dow. Puzzles may be anything from traditional puzzles like crosswords, word searches, cryptograms, jigsaw puzzles, word play and logic problems to wandering around campus to find landmarks or puzzles that have to be solved on location. Teams spend the weekend solving original and unique puzzles, usually created by the team that won the last hunt. The answers, when used in conjunction with the metapuzzle, lead to a hidden treasure concealed somewhere on the Microsoft campus. The hunt is a team puzzle competition which challenges each team to solve a large number of original puzzles of all different kinds. It is a puzzlehunt in the same vein as the MIT Mystery Hunt and has some similarity to The Game. The Microsoft Puzzlehunt is a quasi-annual Microsoft tradition started in 1999. JSTOR ( January 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: 'Microsoft Puzzle Hunt' – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.

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