June 11, 2019
Take a word that means āresolveā. Remove a letter and anagram it to get another
word that is often used to modify āresolveā. What
Sandy Weisz
Captain Marvee
Seeking playtesters. Weāre building a new tabletop puzzle game, and itās almost done, which means we need to observe people playing it.
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
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
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
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
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.
Calli Handset
Mystery League is heading to San Francisco! Iāll be in town March 3 - 6. If youād like me to put one of
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
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
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,
Tulsa, the Alright City
Puzzler
What stateās abbreviation, when spoken aloud, sounds like an example of the nickname of the stateās largest city?
How the Digital
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
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
The Clandestine Mystery Hunt
Oh el el
Chicagoans: Iām putting on my tabletop puzzle game The Unknown Islands Thursday night (November 15) at Empirical Brewery. In it, you and your
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
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
Dice Less, Julianne Moore
Cat Power & Snoop Dogg, happy again
Hereās a creative challenge. Yesterdayās twitter puzzle combined a fantastical musical duo along with a song they should cover:
* Brian May &
Fo' Paw
September 13, 2018
Name a very modern two-word phrase thatās used when describing a foolish
decision. It is a homophone of another two-word phrase,
Lady! Ladi! LadƩ!
The autumn is rich will puzzle hunts: DASH [https://playdash.org/DASH10/],
Puzzle Boat [http://www.pandamagazine.com/island5/], Mark Halpinās Labor Day
Phalanges that Intersect Metacarpal and Resemble ThĆ¼ringers
Iām continuing to publish daily Twitter puzzles at @pzlr
[https://twitter.com/pzlr]. Each tweet offers five items that share a quality
and
What's the connection?
Over the last week, Iāve been publishing daily Twitter puzzles. I was inspired by ā and using the same format as ā P&A
Reespiecer
Puzzler
Name a product found in a supermarket checkout line, in two words. Remove the space and 2 adjacent letters, and change the last
July 31, 2018
Name a product found in a supermarket checkout line, in two words. Remove the
space and 2 adjacent letters, and change the last letter,
National Puzzlers League
I just returned from the 179th National Puzzlers League Convention, known informally as the Con, in Milwaukee, a brilliant three days of meeting fellow
July 17, 2018
Name a famous person from Chicago ā first and last names. The last name ends in
an E. Change the E to an I and
Wuts up, Bull?
July 02, 2018
Name any movie (there are lots of possibilities) that could fit in the missing
blank of this ordered and complete set:
North by Northwest
Mystery League āļø Denver
On July 11, Iāll be in Denver at the Crooked Stave to put on my newest puzzle game, Mystery in the Galleries. Itā
Omegalopolis
Puzzler
What world capital sounds like two Greek letters?
How To Make a Word Search
My friend Eric Berlin, maker of Puzzle Your Kids
June 05, 2018
What world capital sounds like two Greek letters?
Lady Dermaptera
Puzzler
Take the last name of a young movie director. Remove one letter, and what remains will be, phonetically, a synonym for a word
May 21, 2018
Take the last name of a young movie director. Remove one letter, and what
remains will be, phonetically, a synonym for a word in
Mt. Sneaky
In honor of Opening Day, hereās a baseball puzzle for you.
Puzzler
Take the name of a mountain. Change one letter, anagram it,
March 29, 2018
Take the name of a mountain. Change one letter, anagram it, and the result will
be what you call someone who plays for the
Crossfit Wights
Puzzler
Name two activities done at a gym, one word each. Remove a single letter from one of the words. The resulting two-word
February 06, 2018
Name two activities done at a gym, one word each. Remove a single letter from
one of the words. The resulting two-word phrase
What's mentioned in all these books?
NEW GAME. Iām putting the finishing touches on my new table-based puzzle game, The Unknown Islands, and Iām running a couple
January 30, 2018
What is mentionedā¦
55 times in Wuthering Heights,
35 times in Dracula,
3 times in Through the Looking-Glass,
once in Anna Karenina,
and
Ugazon
Iām recovering from the 55-hour puzzle marathon that is the MIT Mystery Hunt. My team, Palindrome, placed 3rd, just an hour or
January 17, 2018
Name a popular shopping website. Shift two of the letters forward in the
alphabet by the same amount, and the result will be another
Aretax Frain
Hi again!
Puzzler
Take the full name of a famous singer. Remove a letter, and add a letter, to the first name to get
December 27, 2017
Take the full name of a famous singer. Remove a letter, and add a letter, to the
first name to get a kind of
Lolfred Tennyson
Puzzler
Name a famous European figure from the 19th century, whose name contains three words. Remove 3 consecutive letters, and youāll end up