Google App Engine webapp for the PuzzleHunt competition at Rice Unviersity sponsored by Microsoft. Web app uses CAS authentication for login, takes in string responses for puzzles and displays a leaderboard.

Based on rice-stickies by Waseem Ahmad (WaseemTheDream/rice-stickies) (http://www.waseemahmad.com/)

Assuming you have a list of users pre-registere, create users_db.py in the models directory with all all_users dictionary. Example users_db.py:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

team_names = u"""AMALFI 4417
Hunters
YOLO
fury
"""

user_netids = u"""ds11
sfdsz16
sfd2w33
zac22
"""

all_users = dict(zip(user_netids.split('\n'), team_names.split('\n')))

#Manually add administrators
all_users['as83'] = u'A-Team 1'
all_users['as110'] = u'iWin'
all_users['sjk3'] = u"A-Team 2"

To add the puzzle names and correct responses to each, create puzzle_data.py in the models directory with two lists, puzzle_titles and puzzle_answers as follows:

puzzle_titles = [
    'The IEEE Shirt Mystery',
    'The IEEE Shirt Mystery 2'
]

#Add all possible answers (upper-case) in a tuple
puzzle_answers = [
                 ('FLOPPYDISK2', 'FLOPPYY', 'FLOPS'),
                 ('DUMMY',)
]

Two variables hide parts of the app after the specified times-- closing_time and leaderboard_hide_time. leaderboard_time sets the time after which leaderboard is hidden from users. closing_time makes the leaderboard visibile and shuts off the puzzle pages that take user responses; it marks the end of the competition.

Set the two variables in puzzle_data.py as follows:

from datetime import datetime

closing_time = datetime(2014, 11, 15, 16, 15, 0, 0) #Close at 4:15pm

leaderboard_hide_time = datetime(2014, 11, 15, 15, 45, 0, 0) #Hide at 3:45pm