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Home My WebLink AboutCC 12-02-2025 Item No. 3 Solving Fun on Puzzle-Hunt Month-Long Event_Written CommunicationsCC 12-02-2025 #3 Solving Fun on the Puzzle-Hunt Month-Long Event Written Communications Community ﬁnding answers together Solving Fun Puzzle Hunt Bringing communities together “It was very fun solving puzzles together as a family and discovering new places to enjoy in Cupertino. We look forward to the next challenge. Thank you.” -Chloe “It was an excellent puzzle. Would love to do it again. Proud to be a Cupertino resident!” -Saunil “The hunt was an amazing way to spend quality time with my family and connect with our community. It reminded us how much there is to discover right here in Cupertino.” -Puja Solving Fun Puzzle Hunt Bringing communities together Puzzle Hunt = Scavenger Hunt + Puzzles ●Collaborate with friends and family to solve puzzles. ●Filled with a variety of wordplay, logic, math, reasoning, and creative thinking. ●Find clues by solving puzzles. ●Clues lead to locations. ●Put together clues and solve a meta puzzle for ﬁnal answer(s). Solving Fun puzzle pals love to create puzzle hunts for communities and organizations. They bring people together in a fun and unique way to collaborate and use creative thinking. Puzzle hunts are inclusive, open to all ages and all kinds of groups. Puzzle hunts can range from a few hours to sets of puzzles that solvers work on over a series of weeks. Solving Fun Puzzle Hunt Bringing communities together Supporters ❏Mayor’s Initiative ❏Library Foundation ❏Cupertino Uniﬁed Schools ❏Fremont Union Schools ❏DeAnza College ❏Code Ninjas - Cupertino Solving Fun Puzzle Hunt Bringing communities together Beneﬁts ❏Brings communities together ❏New visitors to local landmarks ❏Outdoors ❏Not schedule dependent (solvers can solve the puzzles at their own leisure, not competing with other activities) ❏Flexible locations (organizations choose whatever locations are important to them) ❏Inclusive: Open to Everyone! Solving Fun Puzzle Hunt Bringing communities together The Cupertino Puzzle Hunt celebrated the City’s 70th anniversary from October 1-26, 2025. It was free and ﬁlled with 9 puzzles for families and friends to solve together. Solvers could do one puzzle or do them all. Each puzzle took solvers to a different location in Cupertino with a metapuzzle at the end. Cupertino Puzzle Hunt Solving Fun Puzzle Hunt Bringing communities together Sample Puzzles Solving Fun Puzzle Hunt Bringing communities together Advertising Locations ❏Banners, bookmarks, posters ❏Social Media (FB, Instagram, Twitter) ❏Email Lists (Schools, Library, Code Ninjas, Solving Fun) Solving Fun Puzzle Hunt Bringing communities together Participants and Analytics Data Puzzle Hunt website visits: ❏5,340 visits to Cupertino page ❏2,262 visits to Cupertino puzzles page ❏986 registered for information about the hunt Visitors from: ❏Cupertino ❏San Jose ❏Belmont ❏Sunnyvale ❏San Bruno ❏Palo Alto ❏Los Altos ❏Saratoga ❏Mountain View ❏Santa Clara Final Answer Entries: 503 entries Solving Fun Puzzle Hunt Bringing communities together Solving Fun Puzzle Hunt Bringing communities together www.solvingfun.com Thank you! Solving Fun Puzzle Hunt Bringing communities together Feedback Favorite location was Mary Avenue Bridge - the bridge was beautiful and while I have seen it from afar I had never stepped on it, participating in the puzzle gave me just the right opportunity to run onto the bridge and ﬁnding the clue there was like icing on the cake!! It was a lot of fun and I saw parts of Cupertino that I never visited before. Our family enjoyed playing the hunt. My son’s favorite puzzle is the puzzle 8. My favorite one is the puzzle 3. It’s fun going to different places to ﬁnd the clues. We’ll deﬁnitely participate again! It was fun. Puzzle 7 is the favorite one. Yes, we will participate. fun, not easy, good brain exercise, will deﬁnitely do again My favorite puzzle was the lollipop puzzle. My favorite location was the Rancho San Antonio Open Preserve. I would deﬁnitely participate again. Loved the puzzle - it was a bit hard to scour the clue locations with the rains and wind , otherwise very well and smartly crafted puzzle! will participate again! Solving Fun Puzzle Hunt Bringing communities together Feedback cont’d I loved the whole hunt and all the puzzles were great! Loved it! Will participate again if available. Enjoyed traveling to all the different places in Cupertino with my dad :) It was really fun! My favorites were the 4th one (Sudoku), the 5th one, and the ﬁnal meta-puzzle. I would deﬁnitely participate in something like this again! Had tons of fun solving every puzzle with my mom! It's fun. My family had a fun time solving the puzzles. Deﬁnitely will participate again. Our ﬁrst puzzle hunt! It was fun, thank you! My daughter looks forward to hiking at Rancho San Antonio and we love the library! It was Very fun solving puzzles together as a family and discovering new places to enjoy in Cupertino. We look forward to the next challenge. Thank you. Solving Fun Puzzle Hunt Bringing communities together Feedback cont’d This was a lot of fun. It was great to puzzle out the clues at home and then explore the city for the next clues. It wasn't too hard and wasn't too easy. The hints were helpful. Some of the puzzles are hard but fun to solve them in the end. It’s so much fun to work together with my family. Super fun! Puzzles were age appropriate for my kids (10 and 8) and they enjoyed going to the different locations to ﬁnd the extra clues. It‘s tricky but interesting! I would participate again. The one at Rancho San Antonio took me awhile to get the correct parking lot. I also did not want to pay for parking at Anza college so did that one quickly. We laughed, puzzled, and explored—what more could you ask for? The hunt turned an ordinary day into a mini-adventure around Cupertino! Solving Fun Puzzle Hunt Bringing communities together Feedback cont’d Animal puzzle was very interesting. Yes, I will deﬁnitely participate again. I learned new animals... learned new tricks and techniques to solve the puzzle. We enjoyed playing the hunt. My favorite puzzle is Puzzle 3. It’s fun going to different places to ﬁnd the clues. We’ll deﬁnitely participate again! It was great to see different spots of Cupertino! Lots of fun! Great activity for our family of four with two kids ages 9 and 10. It was hard, but doable and fun as a family activity I did it with my brother and mom and dad. Enjoyed visiting around Cupertino! We were not able to ﬁnd the word signs at either Blackberry Farm or Rancho San Antonio (after looking around for some time), but were able to ﬁgure out the ﬁnal answer regardless. Thanks for hosting! Solving Fun Puzzle Hunt Bringing communities together Feedback cont’d Very fun and I had a good time! Puzzles were fun for the kids. Our favorite location was the library! We would do this again! Loved it. Specially the bridge one where we spent 30 min on the wrong side ﬁnding the clue only having to re read the clue. Loved going around and ﬁnding all the clues Creative and fun! However, the hints at the locations need to be afﬁxed better. Location #2 was missing the sign as someone found it on the ground and returned it to the cupertino library Overall it was fun though! My favorite puzzles were #2 and #8. I learned a lot of animal names from #8! I really enjoyed the puzzle hunt. Code ninjas, it was amazing! Solving Fun Puzzle Hunt Bringing communities together Feedback cont’d We highly enjoyed the puzzle hunt. The Meta Puzzle was the most entertaining part and it was so fun to do this with my child. Thanks! Very good puzzles. I liked the variety This is really fun. I hope it's here next year. Awesome! We visited places we were meaning to visit for many years! It's great! But some clues are too far away. Perfect difﬁculty and challenge level had great fun Great fun and balanced level of difﬁculty Fun! We've done a couple of these and enjoy them. I would participate again and really liked visiting Cupertino's landmarks. Solving Fun Puzzle Hunt Bringing communities together Feedback cont’d The bridge was a fun location to go to. We would play again. It is wonderful, I can't wait to play more. It is really fun, we enjoy a lot as a family. looking forward to more of these type of challenges. Family loves it. It was very fun and exciting to solve puzzles with friends and to go all around Cupertino and ﬁnd clues in familiar places like the Cupertino library and Cupertino veterinarians memorial, and some new places like the Rancho San Antonio open-space preserve and Blackberry farm Recreation and pool. The Cupertino puzzle hunt gave me a chance to explore around Cupertino with friends and visit some new places in Cupertino. I really enjoyed the way that we had to move around to ﬁnd the clues. I like those kinds of hunts. I also like that the puzzles were really fun and tested your brain. Solving Fun Puzzle Hunt Bringing communities together Feedback cont’d It’s fun and ideal for children work together! Really enjoyed it! We participated in the Cupertino Puzzle Hunt for the ﬁrst time this year, and it was so much fun! We had a great time going around to different places to ﬁnd clues. We’d love to join again next year. My favorite location was the Mary Ave Bridge. I would deﬁnitely participate again. I learned that it's easier to take your time and do things correctly than do it sloppily. Really fun. Would do again! I liked the word search puzzle the best. I really enjoyed the puzzles, especially the letter Sudoku puzzle. I loved it! It was a lot of fun! Solving Fun Puzzle Hunt Bringing communities together Feedback cont’d Thanks for putting this on, I had a great time diving in! This was a lot of fun racing the kids. It was fun, especially going around town with my son, searching for the easy to ﬁnd clues! A few of the puzzles could have had a few more instructions (1 and 7). It was awesome! It was a lot of fun. It was a great way to get used to the area after recently moving here. Our family loves doing these. It was very creative and a fun group activity. It was also very age friendly. It was lot of fun.we thoroughly enjoyed doing it and exploring Cupertino. Fun for both parents and kids. Solving Fun Puzzle Hunt Bringing communities together Feedback cont’d Cupertino Memorial Park was my favorite location. Most challenging was to ﬁgure out the solution even after solving the puzzle for Puzzle 7. Sudoku with letters. Library . Yes would love to participate again. Loved it! Thumbs up, 6 7! Says a 5th grader Was great fun.They were a great set of puzzles, not super easy or very hard.Very creative and balanced. We heard about it from an email from school district. It was challenging and fun. The places chosen for the clues were beautiful. We enjoyed the whole quiz hunting experience!! We’ll deﬁnitely want to join again. It was an excellent puzzle. Would love to do it again. Proud to be a Cupertino resident! Solving Fun Puzzle Hunt Bringing communities together Feedback cont’d It was fun. We'd never been on the Mary Avenue bridge before. We enjoyed solving the puzzles more than ﬁnding the clues, since there was no thinking involved at the locations. Favorite puzzle was ﬁrst one LIBRARY since it was not hard but hard to give me conﬁdence that I can do this. Sudoku puzzle was my favorite and I would deﬁnitely do the puzzle hunt again. It was a lot of fun, would do again. Thank you! This was so much fun, I got to see so many parts of Cupertino I don't normally get to see. I appreciate the puzzle coordinators also ﬁxing one of the sites that lost a sign very quickly after I emailed. Everyone was so nice and I want to do more! My only feedback is that marketing was a little lacking? I only found out about it by reading the sign when driving by Memorial Park but so glad I did! Solving Fun Puzzle Hunt Bringing communities together Feedback cont’d It's super fun!! Had lots of fun solving the puzzles and going to the locations to ﬁnd the clues. Not all the location clues were present at the start of the hunt, though. My daughter is a Cupertino teacher and found this. She worked hard to solve it. I started when she was close to ﬁnishing, but she wouldn't tell me any answers. I had to ﬁgure it out myself. I did get frustrated at one point and she encouraged me to continue. It was challenging but I loved it. I would deﬁnitely play again if you create another one. It is great to know more about the city I live in. Great fun for my family to solve puzzles and explore the city. Lots of fun. Great game. Will do it again. I would like to participate another hunt like this one. Solving Fun Puzzle Hunt Bringing communities together Feedback cont’d I love the puzzle that has ants. I like to go to the locations to ﬁnd the clue. I like it. It’s challenging but fun to complete with family. Pretty fun to play with kids. Hunt was great,we went to euphrat museum of art to check ﬁnal puzzle answer.Yes,i would love to solve more puzzles in the upcoming days. It was lot of fun and good use of time. Got to visit different places as a family. Favorite puzzle: my sister and mom really liked #8 (animal face pictures) Favorite location: Mary Avenue Bridge Hardest to ﬁnd clue (because it fell on the ground): Cali Mill Plaza Park Hardest to solve puzzle: #7, this was so hard! Would deﬁnitely do it again! Solving Fun Puzzle Hunt Bringing communities together Feedback cont’d It was fun and challenging. I really liked it. It was nice going to new places with family and friends. Would do again. Keep it up, SolvingFun! I especially liked the Blackberry Farm Recreation and Pool. Love the fun of playing with kids. We have a lot of fun, and the puzzles are proper for both kids and adults. The puzzle was an absolute fun activity for my family. We loved our walk to Mary Ave Bridge. It's interesting to solve the puzzles. Very fun to solve them. It's fun to solve the puzzles. I really enjoyed solving the puzzle with my cousin. I love it. Solving Fun Puzzle Hunt Bringing communities together Feedback cont’d It was very fun and we enjoyed a lot of time together as a family. We also enjoyed going around Cupertino with my cousin. We wanted to visit Mary Ave. Bridge for ﬁve years we ﬁnally did it because of this puzzle hunt. My favorite spot was Mary Ave. Bridge. I thought it was great! Thank you for creating it! Have not been to Euphrat Museum of Art, will check it out! It was fun! It was fun. Some of the puzzles were harder. The one at cali mill plaza we couldn’t ﬁnd but guessed. Good difﬁculty level. My daughter and I enjoyed the puzzle hunt and would deﬁnitely do it again next time. Great hunt, would do again. The pedestrian bridge! Solving Fun Puzzle Hunt Bringing communities together Feedback cont’d My favorite puzzle was #3, Cal Culator. It was challenging and interesting. Very fun. Loved all the puzzles. The experience was both engaging and educational. It encouraged teamwork, problem-solving, and exploration of Cupertino in a creative and meaningful way. The hunt was an amazing way to spend quality time with my family and connect with our community. It reminded us how much there is to discover right here in Cupertino. Loved it! The puzzles were smart, the clues were exciting, and discovering new places around Cupertino made it even better! All the puzzles were very exciting! We were having trouble ﬁnding the clue at Blackberry Farm, so hopefully our guess is correct. Fun, nice family day! Yay, I'm glad you brought it to Cupertino. Please highlight some of the cool art sculptures that the city has. Solving Fun Puzzle Hunt Bringing communities together Feedback cont’d Super fun family time! Loved exploring Cupertino and solving clever puzzles along the way. Mary Ave bridge was the best! It was such a fun experience with the family! We discovered new places around Cupertino that we hadn’t seen before, and the puzzles were the perfect mix of challenge and creativity. Favorite puzzle was puzzle #3 with the tool and the code. Very fun for the whole family. Would play more. My favorite puzzle was Pat-ern. I liked the Mary bridge since we've never been there before. I liked most of the puzzles. Loved this! Do it more!