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After 13 years of collaboration, MindSumo will be winding down its platform operations and closing December 31st, 2025. We are sincerely grateful to our solvers and clients for their contributions and partnership. If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected].

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MindSumo is a platform for companies to challenge students. It was founded in November 2011 and launched in February 2012.
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MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: Transporting Oranges
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: Double Agents
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: Betting on Tennis
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: Guessing Birthdays
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: Half Filled Penny Jar
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: Mysterious Note on the Table
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: 21 High Fives
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: 100 Yard Race
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: How Old is Eliza?
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: All of My Cups
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: A Broken Digital Clock
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: Printer for Profit
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: How Many Guesses?
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: Technical Puzzle #35
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: Which Place in the Bicycle Race?
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: Technical Puzzle #36
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: Technical Puzzle #37
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: 500 Robots
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: Technical Puzzle #38
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: The Forgotten House Code
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: 48 Socks
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: Technical Puzzle #39
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: What Day is it Again?
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: Technical Puzzle #40
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: Pirate Coins
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: If Yesterday was Tomorrow
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: Technical Puzzle #41
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: Who Broke the Window?
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: Technical Puzzle #42
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: What is the Correct Time?
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: Brothers and Sisters
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: Technical Puzzle #43
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: Two Trains and a Plane
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: Technical Puzzle #44
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: Unreliable Clock
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: Technical Puzzle #45
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: How Old Are the Kids?
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: The Age of Alice's Father
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: Technical Puzzle #46
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: 100 Strips of Ribbon
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: Technical Puzzle #47
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: Steak or Pasta?
MindSumo Launches Innovation Challenge: Can you help us refresh our homepage?
CHALLENGES
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How would you apply the subscription model to a new product or service?
MindSumo
DONE
75 months
$400
top 12
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COMPLETE
Can you help us refresh our homepage?
MindSumo
DONE
87 months
$500
top 10
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COMPLETE
MindSumo: The Greatest Story Not Yet Told
MindSumo
40/40
submitted
$1,000
top 10
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COMPLETE
Prevent sexual assault on college campuses
MindSumo
6/6
submitted
$100
top 2
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COMPLETE
How can we make coffee consumption less wasteful?
MindSumo
DONE
139 months
$150
top 6
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COMPLETE
Propose a new system for pairing roommates
MindSumo
DONE
141 months
$200
top 8
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COMPLETE
Double Team: Create a hypothetical startup!
MindSumo
20/20
submitted
$500
top 10
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COMPLETE
How can we attract more mentors to MindSumo?
MindSumo
40/40
submitted
$400
top 8
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COMPLETE
MindSumo Halloween Pumpkin Pageant Party!
MindSumo
DONE
145 months
$100
top 2
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COMPLETE
How can we get more people using fitness gadgets?
MindSumo
DONE
147 months
$75
top 5
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COMPLETE
What can car washes do when it rains?
MindSumo
DONE
147 months
$75
top 5
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Return a random object from the stream
MindSumo
DONE
148 months
$75
top 5
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COMPLETE
Doing laundry is painful. How would you improve it?
MindSumo
DONE
148 months
$75
top 5
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COMPLETE
How would you salvage the landline phone infrastructure?
MindSumo
DONE
149 months
$75
top 5
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COMPLETE
Which home appliance would you upgrade?
MindSumo
DONE
150 months
$75
top 5
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COMPLETE
Help companies judge ideas through peer ratings
MindSumo
20/20
submitted
$250
top 5
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COMPLETE
How would you save lower tier colleges and universities?
MindSumo
20/20
submitted
$1,000
top 10
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COMPLETE
How would you design the perfect museum exhibit?
MindSumo
20/20
submitted
$1,000
top 5
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COMPLETE
In a perfect world, what would your finals week look like?
MindSumo
20/20
submitted
$1,000
top 5
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COMPLETE
Course evaluations are painful. Here's a chance to fix them!
MindSumo
21/20
submitted
$1,000
top 5
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COMPLETE
Take the misery out of buying books at campus bookstores
MindSumo
20/20
submitted
$1,000
top 5