March 19, 2019 Think of a pro hockey team whose name is in the same category as a particular pro baseball team, and also in the same category as a particular pro basketball team. The two categories are different. What three teams are these?
Mystery League âïž San Francisco Next Tuesday, on March 5, weâll be in San Francisco at the Barrel Head Brewhouse to put on our game The Unknown Islands. Itâs a two-hour escape-room-at-a-table for teams of 8. As of this writing, 25 tickets remain. Pick up a ticket â or buy out a whole table
Calli Handset Mystery League is heading to San Francisco! Iâll be in town March 3 - 6. If youâd 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
February 12, 2019 Think of a celebrity that goes by a stage name. Their born last name describes something found on a phone. Remove the last letter from their stage first name to get something a phone does. Who is this?
Caroline Savory Puzzler Take a womanâs 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
January 30, 2019 Take a womanâs 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?
Tulsa, the Alright City Puzzler What stateâs abbreviation, when spoken aloud, sounds like an example of the nickname of the stateâs 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
January 15, 2019 What stateâs abbreviation, when spoken aloud, sounds like an example of the nickname of the stateâs largest city?
Hella Good Puzzler Name a word you might use as a first word in a conversation. Change one letter and youâll end up with a word that means, in some contexts, âfirstâ. What words are these? Agents of F.I.E.L.D. Reddit AMA Agents of F.I.E.L.
January 07, 2019 Name a word you might use as a first word in a conversation. Change one letter and youâll end up with a word that means, in some contexts, âfirstâ. What words are these?
Oh el el Chicagoans: Iâm 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 â a bottle, ancient coins, postcards, a newspaper, a whale-watching
November 14, 2018 Take something frequently written in text messages. Swap two letters and say the result out loud, and phonetically youâll describe something else frequently written in text messages. What are they?
October 19, 2018 Think of a place where youâre often asked to make a couple of choices, one right after another. For both choices, youâre asked to choose between two things, and in both cases you could use the same two words to describe your options. But, in each case, the
Cat Power & Snoop Dogg, happy again Hereâs a creative challenge. Yesterdayâs twitter puzzle combined a fantastical musical duo along with a song they should cover: * Brian May & The Decemberists, âA Thousand Yearsâ * Cat Power & Snoop Dogg, âSinginâ in the Rainâ * Lorde & James Taylor, âSharp Dressed Manâ * Prince & John Popper, âItâ
September 13, 2018 Name a very modern two-word phrase thatâs used when describing a foolish decision. It is a homophone of another two-word phrase, itself popular for only about 30 years old, that describes a now-common object. What phrases are these?
Lady! Ladi! LadĂ©! The autumn is rich will puzzle hunts: DASH [https://playdash.org/DASH10/], Puzzle Boat [http://www.pandamagazine.com/island5/], Mark Halpinâs Labor Day set [http://www.markhalpin.com/puzzles/puzzles.html], Cryptic Puzzle Hunt [http://crypticpuzzlehunt.epizy.com/], and now REDDOT (link below). Battle that SAD by digging into