Sandy Weisz

Seeking playtesters. We’re building a new tabletop puzzle game, and it’s almost done, which means we need to observe people playing it. If you’re in Chicago over the next week, and you want to play, and you like free pizza, please sign up here. The Last Defender

Puzzler Take a word that can mean “criminals,” as well as a word for a kind of crime. Merge the two words together to get a single word that describes how some crimes are committed. What words are these? Puzzlesnacks on Kickstarter PuzzlesnacksClever, bite-sized puzzles for kids and adultsKickstarter My

Next Tuesday, on March 5, we’ll be in San Francisco at the Barrel Head Brewhouse to put on our game The Unknown Islands. It’s a two-hour escape-room-at-a-table for teams of 8. As of this writing, 25 tickets remain. Pick up a ticket — or buy out a whole table

Mystery League is heading to San Francisco! I’ll be in town March 3 - 6. If you’d like me to put one of my games for you and your co-workers on one of those days, please reply to this email ASAP. I may also put on a public

Puzzler Take a woman’s first name. If you follow it with a certain five-letter word, you get someone famous. On the other hand, if you precede it with the opposite word, also five letters, you get a famous song title. What name and song are these? Galactic Puzzle Hunt

Puzzler What state’s abbreviation, when spoken aloud, sounds like an example of the nickname of the state’s largest city? How the Digital Era Has Changed the Daily Crossword … a simple web search on a term can be done with the click of a button, and it can sometimes

Puzzler Name a word you might use as a first word in a conversation. Change one letter and you’ll end up with a word that means, in some contexts, “first”. What words are these? Agents of F.I.E.L.D. Reddit AMA Agents of F.I.E.L.

Chicagoans: I’m putting on my tabletop puzzle game The Unknown Islands Thursday night (November 15) at Empirical Brewery. In it, you and your team are secret agents who must break into the bag and use the objects you find inside — a bottle, ancient coins, postcards, a newspaper, a whale-watching