| # 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 | |
| ```bash | |
| # 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](https://puzzles.mit.edu/datapolicy.html) | |