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Metapuzzle

A metapuzzle is a puzzle that unites several puzzles that feed into it. For example, five puzzles that had the answers BLACK, HAMMER, FROST, KNIFE, and UNION would lead to the metapuzzle answer JACK, which combines with all of those words to make new words and phrases.

A "meta-meta" unites several metapuzzles. So if that metapuzzle answer JACK was alongside three metapuzzles with the answers TEN, QUEEN, and ACE, the meta-meta answer would be KING, the remaining card in an ace high strait.

Metapuzzles are frequently found in a puzzlehunt.

See also

Puzzlehunts that have metapuzzles

• MIT Mystery Hunt
• Microsoft Puzzle Hunt
• Microsoft Puzzle Safari
• College Puzzle Challenge

Puzzle games that have metapuzzles

• The Fool's Errand
• 3 in Three
• System's Twilight