# Animal Well's community puzzle hunt

> Players combined grids from 50 people to solve an Animal Well puzzle.

- Owner: Shared Memory / Bigmode
- Kind: Game
- Sector: Gaming
- Seed date: 2024-05-09
- Milestone date: 2024-05-10
- Date basis: Documented milestone; not a measured attention peak.
- Spread Score: 32 (Niche), v1.3
- Mechanics: Underdog, Platform jump

## Summary

Animal Well launched on May 9, 2024, after promotion by its publisher’s YouTube co-founder. Players compared clues in forums and assembled a puzzle on Discord.

## Timeline

- 2024-04-01 — Game File (Press) — Basso described encrypting optional parts of the game to protect its secrets.
- 2024-05-09 — Shared Memory and Bigmode (Open web) — Animal Well launched on Steam.
- 2024-05-09 — Shacknews (Press) — Shacknews reviewed Animal Well and described its secrets.

The full timeline, metrics and sources are on the case page, or via the Pro API (https://howitspread.com/mcp#api).

Canonical URL: https://howitspread.com/cases/animal-well-puzzle-hunt-2024

Cite as: How It Spread (2026). “Animal Well's community puzzle hunt.” Case HIS-01846. Spread Score v1.3: 32/100. Updated 2026-10-28. https://howitspread.com/id/HIS-01846