Meta-puzzle

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A meta-puzzle is a puzzle that unites several puzzles that feed into it. For example, five puzzles that had the answers BLACK, HAMMER, FROST, KNIFE, and UNION would lead to the meta-puzzle answer JACK, which combines with all of those words to make new words and phrases.

A "meta-meta" unites several meta-puzzles. So if that meta-puzzle answer JACK was alongside three meta-puzzles with the answers TEN, QUEEN, and ACE, the meta-meta answer would be KING, the remaining card in a royal flush.

Meta-puzzles are frequently found in a puzzlehunt.

See also

• MIT Mystery Hunt
• Microsoft Puzzle Hunt
• Microsoft Puzzle Day
• Microsoft Puzzle Safari
• [Melbourne University Puzzle Hunt]

• The Fool's Errand
• 3 in Three

 

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