Home › Words › P › puzzlehuntpuzzlehuntpuzzlehunt means A game where teams compete to solve puzzles, the answers to which reveal the location of a hidden treasure or allow the teams to accomplish a final goal. The puzzle answers are frequently combined in a metapuzzle.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, puzzlehunt ranks #2,165 of 42,752 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom puzzle + hunt. Coined by Bruce Leban in 1998 for the Microsoft Puzzlehunt.nounA game where teams compete to solve puzzles, the answers to which reveal the location of a hidden treasure or allow the teams to accomplish a final goal. The puzzle answers are frequently combined in a metapuzzle.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).