Puzzle Hunt 123: Jeopardy!/Puzzlehaunt! (February 28-March 1, 2009)
- Theme: Jeopardy! morphing into a haunted puzzlehunt
- Participants: 84 teams, 975 players in Redmond (1 team finished); 16 teams, 178 players in Bay Area (1 team finished)
- Hosted by: The Usual Suspects (Rich Bragg, Giovanni Della-Libera, Gordon Dow, Caroll Ferry, Douglas Ferry, Dave Fisher, Brent Lang, David Miller, Brooke Nelson, Andrew Ryder, and Peter Sagerson), Cracking Good Toast (Andrew Becker, Mike Marcelais, and Peter Sarrett), Dana Young, and Kenny Young
- Won by: SCRuBBers (Redmond); Demonic Robot Tyrannosaurs (the Burninators and coedastronomy, Bay Area)
- Awards: Jeopardy! plaques
- Memorable Events/Puzzles: Three-dimensional metapuzzles constructed of 30 paper rectangles forming a rhombic triacontahedron, 20 truncated triangles (nonagons) forming an icosahedron, and 12 pentagons forming a dodecahedron, respectively, with a final meta using all of the pieces combined to form a rhombicosidodecahedron, on the surface of which participants had to solve a chess puzzle. "Daily Double" puzzles that encouraged the entire team to work together to solve a timed, interactive puzzle for additional points.
- Landmarks: First hunt to be simulcast to the Bay Area. First hunt to have separate competitive and recreational divisions. New record for largest hunt with 100 teams and over 1100 players.
- Note: The combination of themes was a result of the teams planning hunts 12 and 13 merging.
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