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We are/were all members of the same math team in high school, so we've spent a lot of time problem-solving together. We took a break from math to participate in a few puzzle hunts this summer, and we enjoyed them so much that we decided to start our own! All 25 puzzles were written by our team. Enjoy these excellent photos of us!

SHARAY GAO

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Hello, I'm a rising senior from Buchholz High School in Gainesville, Florida. Aside from puzzle solving I enjoy being apart of my school's band as well as the occasional casual video game. One of my favorite video games recently has been Zelda: Breath of the Wild. I helped write some easier puzzles and was the primary IT-expert for our Google Sheets logistics.

OLIVIA LEE

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I'm a rising senior at Buchholz High School in Gainesville, Florida. Besides riding the high of writing new puzzles, I thoroughly enjoy drawing, video games, and crying to kdramas. Also I am a huge food enthusiast! For this hunt, I was on the grind writing puzzles and drawing logos and artwork, was Sharay's rubber ducky for coding submissions, and kept everyone in line by making them attend our meetings even when they didn't want to.

ANDREW QIU

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I'm an incoming freshman at the University of Florida and I enjoy math, video games, and occasionally reading some manga. I also really like cryptography but quickly realized that puzzles required a lot more creativity than ciphers (big sad). Anyway, I still tried to write some stranger, maybe more cipher-y puzzles, but was sadly bested by Olivia :( . For this hunt I wrote some puzzles that will hopefully be an interesting solve. Good luck!

HELENA JIANG

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Hi! I’m an incoming freshman at Harvard University, and as you can probably tell from my picture, I absolutely LOVE bagels and cream cheese (the more cream cheese the better). I also love sitting down to read a good book (currently on Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones) and over quarantine, I’ve started playing the ukulele! I wrote some puzzles that required lots of mental gymnastics and will deal with much of the customer service during the event.

KIRA NAGOSHI

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I'm an incoming freshman at Harvard University, and I really like chocolate chip cookies, dance, and running. I'm into crosswords, so puzzle-writing has been very fun. My favorite punctuation mark is the semicolon; I'm also a big fan of non-sequiturs. My main jobs on the hunt were writing puzzles and the rules, doing some weird spreadsheet functions, and trying really hard to make our website look nice (don't be too hard on me I've never done this before). 

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