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Jul 26, 2023 July 26, 2023 The National Puzzler's League of 1936 3 min read Jul 16, 2023 July 16, 2023 Baseball rarities, Grandmaster Puzzles, Mystery #12 hints 3 min read Jul 7, 2023 July 7, 2023 Mystery #12 launched, Big Square, Puzzler hints, Threads. 3 min read Jun 21, 2023 June 21, 2023 Overanalyzing Paul Simon's lyrics, a new Puzzler, Mother of Frankenstein, Hey Riddle Riddle 3 min read Jun 7, 2023 June 7, 2023 A beautiful Tuesday crossword, Escape the Greenroom on Game Changer, Game Nerds In Love 3 min read May 31, 2023 May 31, 2023 Wedding puzzle, Medusa Report, Spelling Bee kvetching 4 min read May 18, 2023 May 18, 2023 Mystery 11, Using Midjourney for puzzle creation, humans being humans on TikTok 3 min read May 5, 2023 May 5, 2023 The Last Defender gets a Golden Lock, New Puzzlesnacks 3 min read Apr 27, 2023 April 27, 2023 Crossword pangrams, Cerebral Puzzle Showcase, 50,000 words on Mystery Hunt 4 min read Apr 19, 2023 April 19, 2023 New York event, Threads of Fate, Ingrid Your Crossword Pal 3 min read Apr 12, 2023 April 12, 2023 Meow Wolf, White Sands, The Potato Paradox 4 min read Mar 31, 2023 March 31, 2023 Montana-themed cryptic crossword. 3 min read Mar 21, 2023 March 21, 2023 Puzzles for Democracy 4 min read Mar 9, 2023 March 9, 2023 Watsky ARG, Mystery #10, EnigMarch 3 min read Mar 3, 2023 March 3, 2023 EnigMarch launches, Canadian tourism songs, Discord 3 min read Feb 23, 2023 February 23, 2023 The Signals Discord 4 min read Feb 10, 2023 February 10, 2023 Super Bowl ad, starring my son. Cain's Jawbone postcards. Puzzle workshop updates. 3 min read Feb 2, 2023 February 2, 2023 Chronophoto, A new crossword substack, Mystery Updates 3 min read Jan 26, 2023 January 26, 2023 Mystery #9, Community puzzle-writing, Disfrustrating Puzzles, It's Morbin' Time 3 min read Jan 19, 2023 January 19, 2023 4 min read Jan 10, 2023 January 10, 2023 4 min read Dec 23, 2022 December 23, 2022 2 min read Dec 15, 2022 December 15, 2022 A new puzzler, final projects for my puzzle design class at UChicago, Me on Hey Riddle Riddle, AI-generated palindromes, and dirty limericks 3 min read Dec 9, 2022 December 9, 2022 News from LA, Glass Onion experience, new Scrabble words, HORSE but better. 3 min read Nov 29, 2022 November 29, 2022 I'm coming to LA; gift guides; new games; and a board game-smelling candle. 4 min read Nov 14, 2022 November 14, 2022 Cryptic of the week, HOUSE puzzle book, Oulipo twttr, and Mystery updates. 3 min read Nov 1, 2022 November 1, 2022 Mystery #7, and the answers to Mystery Trivia #4 4 min read Oct 24, 2022 October 24, 2022 Mystery Theme Trivia #4! 5 min read Oct 11, 2022 October 11, 2022 Hints for Mystery Trivia #3, Trace escape room, Words Against Strangers 4 min read Oct 3, 2022 October 3, 2022 Mystery Theme Trivia #3! 5 min read Sep 26, 2022 September 26, 2022 Hints for Theme Trivia #2, Matthew Stein on Patreon, Blockoot, On Circus Grounds 4 min read Sep 19, 2022 September 19, 2022 Mystery Theme Trivia #2 4 min read Sep 9, 2022 September 9, 2022 All of your great submissions to last week's Mystery Theme Trivia. 6 min read Sep 1, 2022 September 1, 2022 A new set of Mystery Theme Trivia, by popular request. 4 min read Aug 24, 2022 August 24, 2022 Member survey; Heraldic Rebuses; Anigrams; Google Sheets tricks 4 min read Aug 16, 2022 August 16, 2022 Congressperson letter banks, Wordlisted, No such thing as a tree, European translator 4 min read Aug 9, 2022 August 9, 2022 Mystery #4; Kickstarter for Paper Labyrinth; AJ Jacbos recommends; Powers of Ten by AI. 4 min read Jul 26, 2022 July 26, 2022 Canadian escape rooms, Trivia! newsletter, Wordle board game, Galactic, teambuilding comedy. 4 min read Jul 14, 2022 July 14, 2022 Furlock Holmes puzzles; Cerebral Puzzle Games; Redactle Unlimited; Onomatology 3 min read Jul 1, 2022 July 1, 2022 Mystery #3, Hackronym, DALLE Promptmanteaus, and These Puzzles Fund Abortion. 4 min read Jun 21, 2022 June 21, 2022 Pilcrow Bar retrospective, Fun with DALL•E, Honeypot Fragment crosswords. 3 min read Jun 6, 2022 June 6, 2022 Mystery #2, Thoughts on The Puzzler Hunt, Adrift by PostCurious, 11 kids named <ALEX>. 3 min read May 23, 2022 May 23, 2022 New puzzler, Extraction, puzzle making grand, Flagle or Flaggle, and Crossword Craze postcards. 3 min read May 13, 2022 May 13, 2022 Sports team mergers, Patrick's Parabox, The Box Office game, and The Polish System of calendaring. 4 min read May 3, 2022 May 3, 2022 Games magazine feature, Golden Lock awards, Knot Words, intro to puzzle hunts. 4 min read Apr 26, 2022 April 26, 2022 Mystery #1, Puzzle Boat 9, Going deep into puzzles, and a new puzzle Kickstarter. 3 min read Apr 18, 2022 April 18, 2022 Redactle, Escape the Island, Mystery League trivia, Zodiac man. 4 min read Apr 6, 2022 April 6, 2022 The Gamification of Discourse, Cryptics in America, 36 Wordles at once, and some lovely fireworks. 3 min read Mar 30, 2022 March 30, 2022 Oscar food puns, Weird Scrabble, a new puzzle set by Patrick Berry, and colorful pigeons. 5 min read