Puzzle Hunt III: You Don't Know Puzzles (November 4-5, 2000)
- Theme: Game shows
- Participants: 28 teams, 344 players (1 team finished)
- Hosted by: Cracking Good Toast (Jack Bridges, Jennifer Gosnell, Mark Lambert, Alex Mogilevsky, Tom Powers, Briand Sanderson, Peter Sarrett, Ken Wong, and Mark Engelberg)
- Won by: Killer Bees
- Awards: Computer games
- Memorable Events: Three live, massively multiplayer game show events, each of which concealed a puzzle which the winning team didn't need to solve.
- Landmarks: First hunt with a team limit of 12 at a time (substitutions allowed). First hunt with live events. First repeat winner.
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