2001: JIZIJ
A boisterous group, Jizij played relatively tenaciously. Also kind of stupidly. By gum, Jizij sucked. At last, other smarter teams won.2002: Postal at S.O.P.
FWIW, Postal At S.O.P. (or PAS) was Palindrome's second best MIT Hunt team to date. Cf. they were even worse than Jizij. P.S. they could not solve cryptics, word searches, etc.2003: Ball Lab
Ball Lab annoyed all teams. Its main attribute was a terrible buzz emitted virtually every thirteen seconds. Ball Lab followed in the footsteps of previous palindromic attempts – that is, they reeked of cluelessness.2004: Muium
Muium embodied serious suckitude. Lackluster performance emphasized Muium's deficits. Defeated, Muium disbanded2005: Bomb Mob
Bomb Mob was, let's think . . . a mob. No creativity was spent by the group, which even plagiarized its team icon. At some point, they even stole another team's pasta.2006: lol
lol was sadly lacking in couth and suavity. Nobody forgot lol's sad fiasco at runaround – losing a coin is bad, but sticking a coin in your right nostril is disgusting!2007: Sexy X'es
Sexy X'es thought they were a bunch of bad girls who'd leave the boys they were competing with bewitched, bothered, and bewildered. But – Surprise! – in the harsh light of day, these palindromic hags looked like dead things.
Back in 1980, Brad Schaefer, an MIT student, decided to organize a campus-wide puzzle competition... and did so every year until he left the institute in 1983, at which point other competitors took over the job.For more information, see the articles in Games Magazine and Technology Review which go into more detail about the history of the Hunt.
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