Here is a list of puzzle hunts with archives of their past puzzles that you can solve and enjoy.
2-Tone Game
BANG
- Bang 37: Ghost Patrol: Late Night Snack
- Bang 35: The Secret of the Sapphires
- Bang 34: Hill Hunt
- Bang 29: Ghost Patrol: Bust A'Nother Ghost
- Bang 23: MR EVIL BANG
- Bang 24: The BANG
- Bang 21
- Bang XX: Get Lucky!
- Bang 16: The Amazing BANG (under "Clues")
- Bang 15: Bang Appétit
- Bang 14: Hail to the BANG
- Bang 13: Trick or BANG
- Bang 12
- Bang 9: Sealed with a BANG
- Bang 3: Eyes Wide Open
- Bang 2: BANG Harder
BAPHL
- BAPHL 14: The Sixth Anniversary Extravaganza
- BAPHL 15: The Search for BAPHL 14
- BAPHL 13: Boston Area Pirate Hunters League
- BAPHL 12: Belated (Arguably Postponed) Holiday Leftovers
- BAPHL 11: The Boston Adventures of Professor Hershel Layton
- BAPHL 10: Bostonian Association of Picking Hunt Locations
- BAPHL 9: Forbidden Rhode Island
- BAPHL 8: From Dusk to Dawn (or vice versa)
- BAPHL 7: Basic American Pseudo-History Lesson
- BAPHL 6: BAPHL of the Bands
- BAPHL 5: The Great Race
- BAPHL 4: Baphlception
- BAPHL 3: The Mysterious Journal
- BAPHL 2: Boston Advanced PHysics Laboratories
- BAPHL 1: Fuzzy and the Fuzzkins
Berkeley Mystery Hunt
- 2015 - OskiLeaks
- 2014 - CALUMNIOUS
- 2013 - Ankur's Research
- 2012 - Anthrolpology 50C
- 2011 - Save Our University!
CiSRA Puzzle Competition
Most of the CiSRA puzzles are archived at the hunt's website archive:
- CiSRA Puzzle Competition 2007
- CiSRA Puzzle Competition 2008
- CiSRA Puzzle Competition 2009
- CiSRA Puzzle Competition 2010
- CiSRA Puzzle Competition 2011
- CiSRA Puzzle Competition 2012
- CiSRA Puzzle Competition 2013
College Puzzle Challenge
- College Puzzle Challenge 2018
- College Puzzle Challenge 2017
- College Puzzle Challenge 2016
- College Puzzle Challenge 2015
- College Puzzle Challenge 2014
- College Puzzle Challenge 2013
- College Puzzle Challenge 2012
- College Puzzle Challenge 2010
- College Puzzle Challenge 2009
- College Puzzle Challenge 2008
- College Puzzle Challenge 2007
- College Puzzle Challenge 2006
- College Puzzle Challenge 2005
- College Puzzle Challenge 2004
Cryptex (Prexcyt) Quest
The point of entry for the Cryptex Hunt is hidden in this video:
DASH (Different Area, Same Hunt)
The Famine Game
Galactic Puzzle Hunt
Herald Hunt/Tropic Hunt
Originally a car rally, the hunt now takes place in a South Florida neighbourhood each year. Participants compete to solve a series of puzzles within a 3-hour window. Puzzles from the 1986 Tropic hunt are available online:
The Game
This TED talk by The Game's founder Joe Belfiore provides an excellent overview, while revealing the anatomy of some of the puzzles:
Labor Day Extravaganza
Every Labor Day for over a decade, puzzle designer Mark Halpin has released his own free puzzle hunt. All of the puzzles from past hunts are archived online, along with an answer checker:
- 2018 - It Takes Two
- 2017 - When First We Practice to Deceive
- 2016 - Here Comes the Sun
- 2015 - Speaking of Witch...
- 2014 - I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends
- 2012 - ... And I Feel Fine
- 2011 - Let's Get Away From the City
- 2010 - Wishful Thinking
- 2009 - Sun and Sand
- 2008 - Short Story
- 2007 - Are We There Yet?
- 2006 - Labor Intensive
The Master Theorem
mezzacotta Puzzle Competition
Microsoft Puzzle Hunt
The puzzles from the second-ever Microsoft hunt are available to solve online:
Mission Street Puzzles
MIT Mystery Hunt
The MIT Mystery Hunt puzzle archives date back to the 1999 hunt:
- 2018 Inside Out
- 2017 Dungeons and Dragons
- 2016 Inception/sleep
- 2015 Oceanography
- 2014 Alice in Wonderland
- 2013 Bank Heist
- 2012 The Producers
- 2011 Video Games
- 2010 Alternate History of the MIT Mystery Hunt
- 2009 Escape from Zyzzlvaria
- 2008 Whodunit Murder Mystery
- 2007 Hell and the Seven Deadly Sins
- 2006 Espionage
- 2005 Superheroes
- 2004 Time Bandits
- 2003 The Matrix
- 2002 Monopoly
- 2001 Horror
- 2000 The Wizard of Oz
- 2000 Carmen Sandiego
MUMS Puzzle Hunt
All of the hunt's previous puzzles and solutions are available online. Follow the "The Puzzles" link in the left sidebar:
The Order of the Octothorpe
The Puzzle Boat
PuzzleDonkey
Puzzled Pint
The Puzzled Pint website maintains an excellent puzzling basics beginners guide, along with an excellent archive of all past puzzles, which are free to download, print, and solve!