This is a minihunt that references past puzzles, but as suggested by the puzzle flavor, the referenced puzzles are not from puzzles written by teammate. Instead, they're from other puzzlehunts. Using the sources identified by the Turnitin plagiarism checker, we must identify the original hunt for each puzzle, then solve it with that puzzle's mechanics. Each source gives the last name and first initial of every author for that puzzle, along with an academia-style wording of the puzzle title.

After identifying some puzzles, we can infer that every puzzle is from a different puzzlehunt series, and every plagiarized puzzle is from a distinct year. Answers to each minipuzzle follow below, but in general, searching “(last name) puzzlehunt” or “(last name) puzzle hunt” is a good first step to identifying the source hunt. Of course, the easiest way to ID is to remember doing the puzzle before, but in general the puzzle assumes solvers are not familiar with any of the source material.

Reordering by year gives:

Submitting NOW COPY OUR HUNT tells us to construct a puzzle plagiarizing a Teammate Hunt puzzle from this year or last year. After submitting a plagiarized puzzle, we receive this reply:

Short Story Submission from E. Tate

My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

I give Pirrip as my father’s family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister,—Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith. As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father’s, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, “Also Georgiana Wife of the Above,” I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly. To five little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged in a neat row beside their grave, and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine,—who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early in that universal struggle,—I am indebted for a belief I religiously entertained that they had all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence.

Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea. My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children of the aforesaid, were also dead and buried; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with dikes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing was the sea; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip.

These are three plagiarized passages of text from the answer, GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens.

Author's Notes

Liam proposed the idea for this puzzle, but didn't have time to work on it. I stole it from him and here we are.

There have been a lot of puzzles that act as minihunts referencing previous puzzles, but I've personally gotten tired of them. They often feel self-indulgent when they reference their own hunt, or kind of the same if they reference MIT Mystery Hunt (since /dev/joe's archive is almost too good). To avoid both those problems, I wanted to write a puzzle that referenced everything except Mystery Hunt and Teammate Hunt. There's been a lot of puzzlehunts over the years, and I thought using those would act more like an homage to the puzzlehunting community.

(Then I referenced my own puzzle anyways because I couldn't resist. Everybody gets one.)

One key design challenge was that almost everyone in our testsolving pool was pretty into puzzles, so we knew our testsolving data would inherently be biased towards liking and having an easier time with this puzzle. To counteract this, when there was a hunt series that spanned multiple years, I tried to pick puzzles such that it would be unlikely people had solved them before. This meant mostly selecting from university hunts catering to undergrads, and biasing towards the first year a hunt ran if it was run for several years. I was convinced this worked when a testsolver failed to ID a puzzle they helped write, and had to use Google to refresh their memory. If your impression was "I've solved a bunch of hunts and even I didn't recognize many of the references", that was intentional - the aim was to flatten the gap between new solvers and old ones.

During the course of writing this puzzle, I messaged three puzzlehunt archives about issues I found with their site. I also added a list of puzzles to my personal site just for this puzzle, and asked another teammate to fix their website as well.

Below is an incomplete list of hunts excluded from this puzzle.

• MUMS Puzzle Hunt: after they changed their archive links, many of Google's cached links stopped working. The new pages were mostly in PDF form and weren't really crawled enough to search well.
• Microsoft Puzzle Hunts: although they are mentioned online in a few places, AFAIK there are no public archives of any of their puzzles.
• Microsoft College Puzzle Challenge: these are archived well, but since they were all PDFs, they had the same searchability problem as MUMS.
• Instances of The Game: In general, I had a hard time finding info on past runs, and of the ones I did find, they usually didn't use the word "puzzle" in their name, making them hard to find.
• Dan Katz's mini puzzlehunts: There were no solutions online for many of these hunts.
• Canada/USA Mathcamp puzzlehunts: These were my introduction to puzzlehunts, but only recent years have solutions, and I wanted to reference more popular hunts instead.