Looking for something to test your mind at epic.THIRTEEN in between games?

We're excited to confirm the return of the popular puzzle hunt at our next event, run by the awesome but ever-so-slightly-evil team from CantFitMyN.

For those of you who haven't taken part in this sort of puzzle before, the idea for this event comes from a concept used at Dreamhack (the DH Game), and various other worldwide puzzle-hunt type games. This particular hunt takes you through a series of digital and event-based clues to lead you to the right answer for each question. This game is a test of your initiative, knowledge, lateral thinking, puzzle solving, code-breaking and some creative image/sound processing skill.

Full details about prizes and rules to be confirmed closer to the event! But for now, make sure you've grabbed your ticket so you can take part!

As announced back in March, the epic.HUNT is back for this event.

For those of you who haven't taken part in this sort of puzzle before, the idea for this event comes from a concept used at Dreamhack (the DH Game), and various other worldwide puzzle-hunt type games. This particular hunt takes you through a series of purely digital and event-based clues to lead you to the right answer for each question.

This game is a test of your initiative, knowledge, lateral thinking, puzzle solving, code-breaking and some creative image/sound processing skill.

The game can be played solo or as a team (up to 8 people), if you choose to join or create a team you will be locked to it for the remainder of the event. If you win while in a team the leader will be in charge of the prize.

The hunt is continuous, but you can stop for a rest at any time, though if you do, there's nothing to stop the other players overtaking your position. Questions will be released in the following phases:

• Thursday 21:30 - Teaser Round
• Friday 12:00 - Round One
• Saturday 14:00 - Round Two (Final)

Signup details will be released on Thursday evening at the event.

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We worry about you all getting bored during the cold, dark, winter weekends. So because we're a caring bunch of people, we will be running an online version of our popular puzzle hunt this December, to keep you busy inbetween epic.lite 3 and epic.FIVE.

Our online hunt will involve a series of cryptic clues taking you on a journey through the digital world to lead to the final minimum prize of two free epic.LAN tickets to be used in 2011, with the possibility of increasing the prize depending on the numbers playing.

You can work on your own, or in teams, to solve the clues. Last year around 100 players took part with the final clue being solved quickest by CantFitMyN. 

The main hunt will start on Saturday 18th December at 12noon with a series of teaser questions on the Friday Evening. Signups will open at the beginning of December.

Good Luck!

The hunt has now started! 51 people so far are scouring the internet for clues in our test of lateral thinking, code breaking and cryptic puzzle solving.

Currently 50% of the participants have completed the teaser rounds (The Initiation) and eagerly await Round 1 - Basic Training.

Teams from all over the UK and even further afield are currently taking part, with some of the main winners and runners up from similar puzzle hunts all competing for the prize of a £100 Kustom voucher, or just general honour!

Not to mention all of the people who are just playing for the fun of it!

It's great to see so many people taking part, and of course we'd love to know what you think about it so far and as you go through the various rounds. If this one is successful, then we'll certainly look to run more online versions as well as our event hunt.

If you aren't playing yet, then you can still join in! It all officially kicks off at 12noon on Saturday 19th, but you can access the teaser questions before then. To take part, go to http://hunt.epiclan.co.uk.

Thanks to support from Kustom and epic.LAN the prize for the online hunt has now been doubled to a £100 Kustom PCs voucher!

Our test of lateral thinking, code breaking and cryptic puzzle solving will be coming to your screens on the weekend of 19th & 20th December to give you something to do on a cold winter's weekend.

After two successful event-based puzzles, we've decided to test your skills purely online in this special edition of the hunt.

Anyone can join in, and it's absolutely free to take part. Registration is now open at http://hunt.epiclan.co.uk.

There will be some short teaser questions on the Friday evening to get you into the right mindset, and then the first round will kick off at 12noon on Saturday 19th.

The second round will begin at 12noon on Sunday 20th with the top 10 players gaining a 30 minute head start.