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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From puzzle + hunt. Coined by Bruce Leban in 1998 for the Microsoft Puzzlehunt.
