🗝 Brain busters from Bletchley 🤔 (A poem ( in ) a Venn)

Thanks for sending all the great ideas about where I should hold hunts. Still going through them and getting back to people. Please keep sending on ideas!

Puzzler

In honor of the playoffs, here’s a baseball puzzle. Name a professional baseball team. Swap the first two letters and — phonetically — you’ll end up with the name of a different pro baseball team. Which two teams are these?

At the Intersection, a poem in a Venn diagram

This one stopped me, made me stare in wonder, then compelled me to show it to everyone around me. So clever. Scroll through his feed, all of his poetry is delightful.

The Heritage Scare: An Evening of Competitive Murder — Sun, Oct 30

The Heritage Scare: An Evening of Competitive Murder
From “Survivor” challenge consultants and award-winning game designers Wise Guys Events, the Heritage Scare is a competitive haunted house: a haunt that you play as a game. Each of the 6 houses in the living history museum at Heritage Square contains a diabolical strategy game of betrayal you play w…
From “Survivor” challenge consultants and award-winning game designers Wise Guys Events, the Heritage Scare is a competitive haunted house: a haunt that you play as a game.

Behind GCHQ's fiendish new puzzle book

Behind GCHQ’s fiendish new puzzle book
One day in 1969, a student left his Cambridge college and found his way to a bitterly cold church hall.

This is the backstory of a new puzzle book by the GCHQ, the British Government Communications Head Quarters, where they spy on and decrypt foreign intelligence.

The Queen once said that we are a nation of puzzle solvers, and she was right.

Chicago Architecture Foundation's 2016 Scavenger Hunt

Last year I helped the CAF put on a one-day puzzle hunt around downtown Chicago. This year they’re expanding the game to to be several weeks long, and all around the city. I had nothing to do with the event this year, which means I get to play.

Solution to the previous Puzzler

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