Event rules

• Hunt HQ will offer two sets of puzzles.

  • The main event OMEGA Space Academy will have five regular puzzles and one metapuzzle (which uses the answers to all the earlier puzzles). You can check answers online at any time via the Puzzles page, even after the hunt ends.

  • Hunt for the Wrathematician is an optional warmup set offered only in-person in Denver. It consists of seven feeder puzzles and one metapuzzle. This set is meant to be significantly easier.

• You can work with as few or as many people together as you want. Our recommendation is teams of 1-4 people.

• Each puzzle has a single answer which is an English word or phrase.

• No puzzles in OMEGA Space Academy will require a physical presence in Denver, although entering the raffle requires you to submit the final answer to Hunt HQ in-person.

• This is not a competitive event! You can ask Hunt HQ for hints or advice as often as you like. The goal is to have fun, not to be frustrated!

  • Off-site solvers are welcome to email chen@omegausa.org as well for hints, although I can't promise anything about response times.

• The use of computers, Internet, programming, web search, etc. are all permitted. However, we explicitly prohibit the use of AI/LLM's, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, etc.

• We'll list all on-site participants that finish OMEGA Space Academy on the winners page. One person from that list will randomly receive a souvenir by raffle.