The hunt is over! Over 115,000 people played, but only 1,300 of you made it to the end and submitted an answer. Amazingly, 112 of you got all 6 correct! Bravo to the .09% of you super sleuths! You can see all the puzzle solutions below.

We have selected three winners randomly from the pool of correct submissions, so give it up for…

Denise M, NJ
Shelby W, Missouri
Kendall S, Wisconsin

Thanks again for participating in the Great 2023 Halloween Puzzle Hunt. We hope you had a spook-tacular time! Until next year! 

Solutions

    • View Puzzle

    • 4 of the moons on the invite’s border are labeled with P, B, 1, & 4

    • The moons and labels line up with the text on the invite

    • Writing out each letter/number of “Spooktacular Celebration Thursday October 14” lines up with the moons

    • The full moons highlight 5 letters

    • S C A R E

    • View Puzzle

    • During the birthday greeting, lightning crashes 5 times

    • Interrupted by lightning are the words Video, Agatha, Evening, Super

    • The words fit into the spiral grid in the bottom right of the video, each arrow points in the direction of a new word

    • The shaded squares on the grid spell out the answer

    • R A V E N

    • View Puzzle

    • Each news item celebrates a different event and links to a Wikipedia page about that event

    • A grid of letters that looks like a calendar on each event with Sunday and Saturday shaded

    • Researching which day of the week corresponds to the news item will map to a letter on that news item’s grid

    • Putting those letters in the order of the year of the news item spells a word

    • C I D E R

    • View Puzzle

    • The poem references five different colors: white, orange, purple, black, green

    • There are groups of dots in the corresponding colors on the front and inside of the card

    • Connecting the dots in order will draw a letter spelling out the solution

    • C O V E N

    • View Puzzle

    • There is one image which includes a note about someone being out of candy

    • Each different item on that image corresponds to one other photo (Toy bats, mini pumpkins, circle confetti, etc.)

    • Each image also has one candy bar pictured

    • The number of each item (ie tiny bats) corresponds to the letter in the candy bar in the corresponding image (ie 7th letter of MilkyWay)

    • The order of the items spells the letter into a solution

    • M A G I C

    • View Puzzle

    • Each photo shows a different view of the same pumpkin

    • Looking at each photo, you can map out what letter is on each side

    • The bottom of the pumpkin has a grid “legend” showing where each letter goes

    • Using the grid symbols, you can map the letters into a 5-letter word

    • N I G H T




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