Puzzle Hunt 7: Alice in Puzzlehunt (March 20-21, 2004)
- Theme: Alice in Wonderland
- Participants: 51 teams, 558 players (1 team finished)
- Hosted by: TLA Loves Alice (Brett Roark, Bruce Kaskel, Bruce Leban, Chip Brown, Darren Rigby, Elan Lee, Gordon Dow, Ken Jordan, Kiran Kedlaya, Mike Koss, Paul Grimes, Roy Leban, and Scott Ruthfield)
- Won by: Staggering Geniuses
- Awards: Framed mirror with image of a playing card showing Alice as both Queen of Hearts and a chess queen
- Memorable Events/Puzzles: The actual Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle was part of the event. Roy Leban, the puzzle creator and a New York Times crossword contributor, coordinated with Will Shortz, the puzzle editor for the New York Times, to have his puzzle published on that particular Sunday. Other memorable events included the Puzzle Special pizza that had to be ordered from the local Pizza Hut and Washington State House Resolution No. 4717 PDF officially recognizing March 20-21st, 2004 as Alice in Puzzlehunt Weekend in the State of Washington.
- Landmarks: First, second, and third place teams were searching in the same building (but not on the same floor) as time was about to expire.
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“Waiting for the race to become official, he began to feel as if he had as much effect on the final outcome of the operation as a single piece of a jumbo jigsaw puzzle has to its predetermined final design. Only the addition of the missing fragments of the puzzle would reveal if the picture was as he guessed it would be.”
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—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)