Example Puzzles

Here we have gathered together a few puzzles from past iHunts that exemplify the kinds of techniques you'll need to use. These puzzles are all medium-to-hard in difficulty so that we can show you as many tricks as possible: if they seem very complex remember that the iHunt starts off easy and gets hard!

The Lofty Aviator

general motors europe
monty hall problem
violent true believer

Solution

The first letters of the title make "TLA" (three letter acronym), which hints that you need to take the first letters of each of the lines. This gives you GME, MHP, VTB. The word aviator in the title hints at airports, and each of the acronyms is an airport code. All of the airports are in the same country, so the answer is Belarus

American School of Cinema

Solution

We've removed the names of the films, so find out which films these posters were advertising. Also there's a comment in the HTML saying “not Y2K compliant”, this hints at dates, and specifically two-digit years. So, get the dates these films were released:
Easy Rider - 1969
Rocky - 1976
2001 A Space Odyssey - 1968
Midnight Cowboy - 1969
WarGames - 1983
Ghostbusters - 1984
Use the two-digit years to make: 69 76 68 69 83 84 This is decimal-representation ASCII (the initials A, S, C of the title are a hint for this) for ELDEST

My Muse's Mixed Messages

The puzzle text presented you with a link to this file which has extension ".mscz". Googling for this extension reveals that the tool to use to open it is MuseScore file. The "Muse" portion of the title confirmed you were on the right track. Download MuseScore and open the file, you'll find that the program is a musical score editor and the file looks like this:


The "Mixed Messages" in the title refers to the fact that there are four separate messages mixed into the file. Inspecting the score more closely revealed there were only four different pitches used for the whole thing. Separating out the pitches revealed a message in Morse code; these were: Each pitch is a section of the message in Morse:

G: which type
E: of building
C: has the
A: most stories

We weren’t meaning the most floors here - The answer we were looking for was a library.