benchmark/MIT_Mystery_Hunt/README.md

MIT Mystery Hunt — local puzzle mirror

Answer keys live in mh_answers/ and answers.tsv. Puzzle bodies + multimedia are mirrored under puzzles/.

Counts (targets)

Source	Items	Role
mh_answers/mystery*.txt	4,202	keyed answers 1994–2025
answers.tsv	2,299	URL ↔ answer (1999–2016) — primary mirror queue
huntindex	4,010	indexed puzzles 1982 + 1994–2025

Layout

puzzles/
  by_tsv/{year}/…/     # mirrored from answers.tsv (answer-linked)
  {year}/{tag}_…/      # mirrored from huntindex catalog
  answers_tsv_manifest.jsonl
  manifest.jsonl
  by_answer.json
  *_state.json

Each puzzle folder typically contains:

• puzzle HTML/PDF
• referenced images / audio / video / other assets
• solution.html / solution.pdf when linked

Re-run / resume

# answer-linked queue (1999–2016)
python mirror_answers_tsv.py

# full huntindex catalog (all indexed puzzles)
python mirror_puzzles.py

Both scripts are resumable via *_state.json.

Sources

• https://puzzles.mit.edu/
• https://devjoe.appspot.com/huntindex/
• See MIT Puzzle Club data use policy