After a decent rest, we're excited to announce that the epic.HUNT will return for epic.ELEVEN as part of our increasing programme of casual gaming activities.

We've also handed over the reins to some new evil geniuses to run the hunt, puzzle hunt regulars and epic.LAN participants, CantFitMyN. We've already been taking a look at some of their question ideas and we know you're going to be impressed.

For those who haven't taken part in one of these before, it's a cryptic game that takes place throughout the physical event and online world where a series of questions and tasks leads you through to the end of the challenge. It is meant to be a mentally tough challenge that will require a wide range of skills, it isn't meant to be a quiz! It will be created to run over 2 days of the event, but we'll be working with the CantFitMyN team to get a good balance between challenging, while giving you plenty of time to take part in everything else going on at the event too.

More details will follow closer to the time, but for now, if you want to take part, make sure you have your epic.ELEVEN tickets and save £10 if you book before 31st March.

Yes, in mere hours we'll be releasing our pack of hounds, well clues for the chase around the... ok the analogy isn't really working.

At 6pm Friday 17th December, the teaser questions will be revealed for this year's epic.HUNT Online, followed by the main questions from 12 noon on Saturday.

The top players (number to be determined) will then get a 30 minute head start for the final charge on Sunday, which starts at 12 again for everybody else.

Make sure you have an epic.LAN account and go to the hunt site at hunt.epiclan.co.uk to begin.

Remember, you could be in with the chance of winning 2x epic.LAN tickets to be used at any 2011 event AND £50 to spend over at Kustom PCs.

This year's online hunt will start at 12 noon on Saturday 18th December for Round 1, the second round will begin at 12 noon on Sunday 19th December and there will be a head start for the first few players to complete round 1.

A series of teaser questions will be available from 6pm Friday 17th December which must be completed before you can access the main questions.

You can now sign up to the hunt as follows:

1. Create or log in to your epic.LAN Account
2. Go to the Hunt Online site using this link which will automatically log you in.
3. Or if you have an epic.LAN account already, you can log in straight away at hunt.epiclan.co.uk using your normal epic.LAN account details.  
4. That's It! You're ready to start playing from 6pm on the 17th. 

Prizes

For the winning person (who may choose to work as part of a team), we can confirm that the prize will be

• 2 Tickets to any 2011 epic.LAN Event
• £50 Kustom Voucher

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!