Puzzle Elements name how hunt-style puzzles present clues, how solvers progress, and how events are structured—shared vocabulary for constructors, testsolvers, and writers. Concepts align with the English community's Puzzle Elements taxonomy.
Use `/wiki/element/name` on PuzzleCat to list articles referencing an element.
Presentation
How information is delivered:
- Text — prose, layout, PDF/HTML
- Images — still art, comics, infographics
- Audio — listening, spectrograms, Morse, songs
- Video — footage, animation, caption hides
- Physical — objects, onsite checkpoints
Solve path
How solvers advance:
- Logic — deduction and grids
- Wordplay — homophones, anagrams, letterplay
- Association — grouping and matching
- Knowledge — trivia and culture (fairness matters)
- Search — explicit research steps
- Extraction — derive answer strings
- Indexing — pick letters by numbers/coords
- Transformation — ciphers, rotations, geometry
Hunt structure
- Hunt — full event
- Round — chapter
- Feeder — support puzzle
- Meta — capstone
- Hint system — costs and unlock rules
Craft & community
- Construction
- Testsolving
- Spoiler policy
- Writeup
Using this index
- Reference elements in puzzle tags or infoboxes
- Split elements into dedicated articles over time
- Contribute via the creator guide