Hacking Hacks in the Wild

Puzzles teach you about cor components of her prodigals. The puzzle about blinding polynomials was something that helped yo understand how to achieve your knowledge in plunk. Were all the puzzles based on actual events, like actual hacks in the wild, or were some more constructed by the teams? Initially we did want to base them all on haks, thet happening the wild. But it didn't seem extremely possible to make that happen and still make some good amount of puzzles that could be solved in a reasonable time.