🗝 Brainteasers // ARG update // Other games 🦃
Hello, again. Happy Thanksgiving, for those of you celebrating. If you’re looking for dinner table topics beyond the US election, I hope these links, and the puzzle at the end, can help.
Puzzler
Name a famous 20th century musician. Change one letter in his first name to get the first name of a 20th century TV character. Change one letter in the musician’s last name to get the first name of the actor who played that character. Who are these people?
Can You Solve Walter Benjamin’s Brainteasers?
A Crazy Mixed-Up Day: Thirty Brainteasers
From 1927 to early 1933, Walter Benjamin wrote and delivered some eighty to ninety broadcasts over the new medium of German radio, working between Radio Berlin and Radio Frankfurt. These broadcasts, many of them produced under the auspices of programming for children, cover a fascinating array of to…
Walter Benjamin
From 1927 to 1933, the German literary critic had a radio show for children. The broadcast transcripts are now available in English—this one is full of riddles.
Indie Games’ Most Cryptic Mystery Apparently Just A Frog Fractions Teaser
Indie Games’ Most Cryptic Mystery Apparently Just A Frog Fractions Teaser
One of the most cryptic, arcane mysteries in indie games has led its investigators to videos of the Frog Fractions developer tasting soups. Frog Fractions is an “edutainment” Flash game with an upcoming sequel that, many now think, the years-long mystery is teasing.
The A.V. Club
Remember that sigil that was composed of puzzle pieces pulled from 19 indie games? Someone finally figured out what it was for, and the answer is… yet more more clue in a seemingly never-ending ARG.
Another ARG, this one about fish canning
ARG Explores Future Through Off-World Fish Cannery
A grassroots alternate reality game about Koatoa Marine recently launched by shipping a puzzle along with empty cans of the company’s Razorkan fish. To date, gameplay has focused on exchanging emails with employees from this off-world fish cannery of the future.
A GRASSROOTS ALTERNATE reality game about Koatoa Marine recently launched by shipping a puzzle alongside empty cans of the company’s Razorkan fish. To date, gameplay has focused on exchanging emails with employees from this off-world fish cannery of the future.
the OtherGames
Funny Games
All the games in the Funny Games collection are the kind of games you play for fun, just for fun.
Blue
A large collection of silly, simple, “open source” games, most of which require no props.
Solution to the previous Puzzler
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