1st Bravo Awards

The Bravo Awards were a discord based award ceremony for puzzlehunts in 2021. The ceremony was conducted by Junkmail on 13th January 2022. The ceremony was intended to be a celebration of all things Puzzlehunt.

All puzzles, hunts and creations released between MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 (inclusive) and before MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 were eligible for the awards. There was a nomination process by which anyone could submit nominees, followed by a open-to-all voting process for all finalists. Each category usually had between 5 to 10 finalists and some "Honorable Mentions" who did not make the cut.

Awards

Hunt Of The Year

• Matt & Emma's Carnival Conundrum (Teammate Hunt) - Runner Up
• MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 - Winner
• Puzzle Potluck 4
• Huntinality 2021
• Silph Puzzle Hunt
• 20/20 Vision (Galactic Puzzle Hunt)
• Honorable Mentions: QoDE Puzzle Hunt, UMD Puzzlehunt

Short Hunt Of The Year

• Huntinality 2021
• Puzzle Potluck 4 - Winner
• UMD Puzzlehunt
• Hunt20 2.1
• Paradox Puzzlehunt

Honorable Mentions: Puzzle Rojak, Inexact Puzzle Hunt, Pirate Hunt (Puzzlehunt CMU Spring)

Best Presentation

• Matt & Emma's Carnival Conundrum (Teammate Hunt) - Winner
• MIT Mystery Hunt 2021
• Puzzle Potluck 4

Honorable Mentions: Huntinality 2021, UMD Puzzlehunt

Most Innovative Structure

• Microscope (Galactic Puzzle Hunt)
• Infinite Corridor (MIT Mystery Hunt) - Winner
• Matt & Emma's Carnival Conundrum (Teammate Hunt)
• Periscope (Galactic Puzzle Hunt)
• ⊥IW.giga (MIT Mystery Hunt)
• Puzzle Potluck 4

Best Direction

• Silph Puzzle Hunt
• MIT Mystery Hunt 2021
• Puzzle Potluck 4
• Matt & Emma's Carnival Conundrum (Teammate Hunt) - Winner
• Honorable Mentions: QoDE Puzzle Hunt, Huntinality 2021

Best Metapuzzle

• Bulletin Board (Curtis Liu, Darren Yin, Rajeev Nayak; Potluck)
• Periscope (Lewis Chen, Jon Schneider, Anderson Wang; Galactic)
• Firefly & Mr. Freeze (Scott Handelman & Jonah Ostroff (ft. Adam Maresca); QoDE)
• Infinite Corridor (Jon Schneider; Mystery Hunt) - Winner
• Hall of Mirrors (Jacqui Fashimpaur, Liam Thomas, Samuel Yeom; Teammate)

Honorable Mentions:

• Microscope (Rahul Sridhar, Lewis Chen, Colin Lu, Anderson Wang; Galactic)
• Telescope (Jon Schneider (additional contributions by Brian Chen, Colin Lu, Rahul Sridhar, Anderson Wang); Galactic)
• Random Hall (Colin Lu, Jakob Weisblat, Jon Schneider, Robert Tunney, Anderson Wang; Mystery Hunt)
• Getting Going (Level 51; Silph)
• Tunnels (Anderson Wang, Charles Tam, Curtis Chou, Jon Schneider, Lewis Chen; Mystery Hunt)

Best Feeder Puzzle

• Re-Actions (Level 51 and Deusovi; Silph)
• The Meta Meta Meta ... Puzzle (Yannick Yao; Galactic)
• Circular Reasoning (Anderson Wang, Jakob Weisblat, Jon Schneider, Lewis Chen and Robert Tunney; Mystery Hunt) - Winner
• Divide & Conquer (Lewis Chen and Anderson Wang; Galactic)
• Nutraumatic (Jakob Weisblat and Rahul Sridhar; Mystery Hunt)
• Time of Your Life (Jacqui Fashimpaur; Teammate)
• Honorable Mention: 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001000000000000116 (Lewis Chen; Mystery Hunt)

Most Elegant Puzzle

• Divide & Conquer (Lewis Chen and Anderson Wang; Galactic)
• Re-Actions (Level 51 and Deusovi; Silph)
• Minor Differences (Nick Mitchell; QoDE)
• Circular Reasoning (Anderson Wang, Jakob Weisblat, Jon Schneider, Lewis Chen and Robert Tunney; Mystery Hunt) - Winner
• Symbolic Table (Olga Vinogradova; Teammate)
• MacGregor House (Alan Huang, Colin Lu, and Rahul Sridhar; Mystery Hunt)
• The Bazaar (Herman Chau and Joanna Sands; Teammate)
• The Meta Meta Meta ... Puzzle (Yannick Yao; Galactic)
• Clusters (Charles Tam and Robert Tunney; Mystery Hunt)

Nuovo Award For Puzzling Innovation

• Infinite Corridor (Jon Schneider; Mystery Hunt) - Winner
• Nutraumatic (Jakob Weisblat and Rahul Sridhar; Mystery Hunt)
• Wah-Street Bets (Benji Nguyen, Dan Simon, and Ryan Liu; Huntinality)
• All That's Left To Do Is Extract (Ivan Wang, Alex Irpan, and Rachel Wei; Teammate)
• Mystery Manor/Remember to Hydrate! (Ivan Wang, Rachel Wei, Christopher Reyes, Liam Thomas; Teammate)

Honorable Mentions:

• Divide & Conquer (Lewis Chen and Anderson Wang; Galactic)
• Bingo (Jakob Weisblat, Joanna Sands, and Rahul Sridhar; Mystery Hunt)

Best Introductory Puzzle

• ✏️✉️➡️3️⃣5️⃣1️⃣➖6️⃣6️⃣6️⃣➖6️⃣6️⃣5️⃣5️⃣ (Anderson Wang, Ben Yang, Jakob Weisblat and Lewis Chen; Mystery Hunt)
• Hey, Can You Give Me A Hand With This Puzzle? (Colin Lu, Jakob Weisblat, Leon Zhou, Lillian McKinley; Mystery Hunt) - Winner
• If You Give… (mstang; Silph)
• Exactly (Evan Chen, Curtis Chou, Linus Strese, Anderson Wang and Jakob Weisblat; Mystery Hunt)
• Qatalog (Jonah Ostroff; QoDE)
• Don't Let Me Down (Anderson Wang; Mystery Hunt)

Funniest Puzzle

• The Minimeta That Goes Wrong (Level 51; Silph)
• So You Think You Can Count (Charles Tam; Mystery Hunt)
• MacGregor House (Alan Huang, Colin Lu, and Rahul Sridhar; Mystery Hunt) - Winner
• Meta-Eval Times/Pin The Tail (Andrew He, Katie Dunn, Catherine Wu, and Patrick Xia; Teammate)
• Objection! (Alex Irpan and Ivan Wang; Teammate)

Honorable Mentions:

• Six Feet Under (Level 51; Silph)
• Solving Pumpkin Patch with NO Given Pumpkins?! /Menagerial Problems (Brian Lee, Joanna Sands, Patrick Xia, Edgar Chen, Ivan Wang; Teammate)

Best Twist On A Classic Style

• Dropcrypt (Colin Lu, Jon Schneider, Anderson Wang, Robert Tunney; Galactic) - Winner
• One Size Fits All (Jon Schneider; Mystery Hunt)
• Overdone (Level 51; Silph)
• Drop Tower (Jonathan; Puzzle Rojak)
• Re-Actions (Level 51 and Deusovi; Silph)

Honorable Mention: Haunted House (Zach; Inexact Puzzlehunt)

Best Word Puzzle

• PClueRS (Chris Jones; Mystery Hunt)
• Dropcrypt (Colin Lu, Jon Schneider, Anderson Wang, Robert Tunney; Galactic)
• Bulletin Board (Curtis Liu, Darren Yin, Rajeev Nayak; Potluck)
• Re-Actions (Level 51 and Deusovi; Silph)
• Circular Reasoning (Anderson Wang, Jakob Weisblat, Jon Schneider, Lewis Chen, Robert Tunney; Mystery Hunt) - Winner

Best Logic Puzzle

• Symbolic Table (Olga Vinogradova; Teammate)
• Ignorance (Jon Schneider, Brian Chen, Mitchell Lee, Xander Hughes; Mystery Hunt)
• Divide and Conquer (Lewis Chen, Anderson Wang; GPH) - Winner
• Poison Ivy (Scott Handelman & Jonah Ostroff, Adam Maresca; QoDE)
• RED SUS (lovemathboy, chaotic_iak; Silph)
• Fun With Sudoku (Josh Alman, Mitchell Lee; Mystery Hunt)
• STOP DOING LOGIC PUZZLES (Kevin Zhou/Kaz; CMU Fall)
• Chimera (lovemathboy; Silph)

Best Interactive Puzzle

• Meta-Eval Times/Pin The Tail (Andrew He, Katie Dunn, Catherine Wu, and Patrick Xia; Teammate)
• Wah-Street Bets (Benji Nguyen, Dan Simon, and Ryan Liu; Huntinality)
• Beep Arcade (Herman Chau, David Hashe; Teammate)
• So You Think You Can Count (Charles Tam; Mystery Hunt)
• Mystery Manor/Remember to Hydrate! (Ivan Wang, Rachel Wei, Christopher Reyes, Liam Thomas; Teammate) - Winner

Honorable Mention: Nutraumatic (Jakob Weisblat and Rahul Sridhar; Mystery Hunt)

Best Non-Puzzle (At Least, Primarily) Contribution To The Community

• Cypher House
• Noq (Michael Tang, Jenna H.)
• Meta Data (CJ Quines)
• The Projection Device (Mystery Hunt) - Winner
• Google Sheets Puzzle Tricks (Jonah Ostroff)
• Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later (CJ Quines)
• Character Witness (Level 51)
• Dropquote Solver (CJ Quines)
• Puzzlehunt.net (Betaveros)

Delayed Award For Making Puzzle Hunts Better

• gph site - Winner

(This was a non nominated special award)

See Also

• Link to the discord server for the ceremony