May 14, 2019
Name a character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Change the last letter and
youāll get, phonetically, another character in the MCU. Who are they?
Sandy Weisz
Crookshanks
Puzzler
Take a word that can mean ācriminals,ā 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?
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April 08, 2019
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?
Tallahassee Taureses
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 āļø San Francisco
Next Tuesday, on March 5, weāll be in San Francisco at the Barrel Head Brewhouse to put on our game The Unknown Islands. Itās a two-hour escape-room-at-a-table for teams of 8. As of this writing, 25 tickets remain. Pick up a ticket ā or buy out a whole table
Calli Handset
Mystery League is heading to San Francisco! Iāll be in town March 3 - 6. If youād 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 womanās 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?
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January 30, 2019
Take a womanās 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 stateās abbreviation, when spoken aloud, sounds like an example of the nickname of the stateās largest city?
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January 15, 2019
What stateās abbreviation, when spoken aloud, sounds like an example of the
nickname of the stateās largest city?
Hella Good
Puzzler
Name a word you might use as a first word in a conversation. Change one letter and youāll end up with a word that means, in some contexts, āfirstā. What words are these?
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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 youāll end up with a word that means, in some contexts, āfirstā. What words
are these?
The Clandestine Mystery Hunt
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Chicagoans: Iām 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 ā 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 youāll describe something else frequently
written in text messages. What are they?
This or that
October 19, 2018
Think of a place where youāre often asked to make a couple of choices, one right
after another. For both choices, youāre 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