The Signal

Mar 25, 2026 Linda Hired Eye Academy Award for Best Adapted Recipe 4 min read Feb 27, 2026 Would & Satin One Year of Raddle 6 min read Jan 12, 2026 A Continental Flight Goodbye, 2025 6 min read Oct 22, 2025 Evermore Vermeer Girl A Field Notes Murder Mystery 5 min read Sep 16, 2025 Schwinn Shin Raddle makes the news 6 min read Jul 31, 2025 Horse Horde House The pros of Con 6 min read Jun 18, 2025 Dinkens Pickens Ickens Mystery #21 is here 6 min read May 7, 2025 Ochin Chap Sexiest Puzzle Game Alive 3 min read Mar 10, 2025 Barbor Harbor Introducing Raddle! 5 min read Feb 10, 2025 Masterpiece Museum February Puzzler; Letter Brew; ARG forum rises from the dead; Found wordplay; Westwords Tourney 5 min read Jan 14, 2025 Missio Nimpossible Reality Escape Pod; new cryptic Patreon; Ambigrams; new Patrick Berry set 5 min read Nov 27, 2024 Gonzo Bongo Condo Gift guides, AVCX crosswords, Midwest escape tour, & a new Mystery 6 min read Oct 24, 2024 Do Let the Sun Go Down on Me A light crossword-themed puzzle game; Sandy in Block Club Chicago; New Kickstarter from PostCurious; Box Two 5 min read Sep 26, 2024 Téa Mobster TED Games, logic puzzles, and a new Puzzler 5 min read Aug 29, 2024 First-raftere Escape the MSI, Olympic names, Midwest Crossword Tourney, LA Library immersive adventure, Quick Cryptics 4 min read Jul 17, 2024 Teragram & Stewart NPL Con, NPR puzzle, Sondheim's love of puzzles, Minute Cryptic, T. Swift 5 min read May 17, 2024 Decaf Pecan Blood on the Clocktower, Cinematic puzzle hunt, new Jeopardy! show 5 min read Apr 9, 2024 Bob Jectiony Balatro, Watsky wrap-up, Lone Shark kickstarter, Strands game, new Mystery. 4 min read Feb 15, 2024 Sexta, Texas A 40th Birthday adventure; MIT Mystery Hunt recap; Jubensha in the US. 4 min read Jan 5, 2024 A Tale, Mate SOLVE at the Design Museum, The 1st annual Midwest Crossword Tournament, and our 2023 year in review. 6 min read Nov 28, 2023 Sham Hepburn 2023 Holiday Gift Guide! 5 min read Oct 24, 2023 Barc Rack It's Connections all the way down! 6 min read Sep 12, 2023 Nemo Morgan What's new in the world of puzzling for September 2023. 4 min read Aug 6, 2023 Slinky Skin NPL Con, Aptonyms in movies, Grandmaster Puzzle subscriptions, Mystery #12 4 min read Jun 30, 2023 The Teenager Affirmation Company Wedding puzzle game, latest Mystery, Mother of Frankenstein, Hey Riddle Riddle 5 min read May 12, 2023 Cuke Ellington Golden Lock award, MS Puzzlehunt, an NYC event, and 2 new puzzle kickstarters 5 min read Apr 13, 2023 Scenes From An Italian Coffeeshop I'm coming to New York, Mystery 10, How to cryptic, Watsky ARG 6 min read Feb 21, 2023 drimal scream UChicago puzzle class, EnigMarch, Will Shortz in the New Yorker, Shift Happens, my kid the Super Bowl star 6 min read Jan 17, 2023 Scuffttlebufftt Hello from the other side of the 2023 MIT Mystery Hunt, which finally ended on Monday after 66 hours and 23 minutes, making it one of the longest 6 min read Dec 9, 2022 Jack Alantberry Gift guides, new Puzzler, Midjourney promptmanteaus, puzzle podcasts, and other news from the world of puzzles. 5 min read Nov 7, 2022 Mentor Thunderbolt Mystery #7, Trace Room Escape game, Words Against Strangers 4 min read Oct 7, 2022 Kent Tomorrow Solve sessions, the newest Puzzler, and some links from around the puzzle world. 4 min read Sep 8, 2022 Brisketting With a Side of Corny Mystery Theme Trivia, Rebuses, Anigrams, Puzzletember. 4 min read Aug 10, 2022 Boss Flax Mystery #4, Trivia newsletter, Galactic Puzzle Hunt, Paper Labyrinth on Kickstarter. 5 min read Jul 5, 2022 Here’s T Glove Mystery #3, thoughts on the Puzzler Hunt, DALL•E #promptmanteaus, and turning despair into action. 4 min read May 31, 2022 Jolt Vibing Raven Games Magazine feature; two new puzzles; new PostCurious game; The Puzzler book by A.J. Jacobs; Knot Words; and a whole lot of puzzle-making and -solving resources. 5 min read Apr 27, 2022 Beetimstreebee Work at The Mystery League, Patrick Berry set, Escape room in Gather, Redactle, and the Gamification of Discourse 5 min read Mar 24, 2022 Thoulderu Letters, puzzle book, puzzle collecting, and another Wordle variant. Plus The Puzzler 4 min read Feb 23, 2022 Welcome to Signals We’re launching a new web and email publication today, called Signals. This is where we're going to publish more puzzles, articles, contests, and other good 5 min read Jan 19, 2022 No Country for Old Me Good morning! This past weekend was the MIT Mystery Hunt, written and hosted by my team, Palindrome. It was an exhausting, thrilling year, and the end result was 4 min read Dec 8, 2021 The Los Angeles Floridimans Happy Holidays! Today’s issue is part gift guide, and part meta-gift guide. It’s still not too late to get some of these things delivered by 6 min read Oct 8, 2021 Pettajamesh For the last puzzle, we got a lot of entries for one particular wrong answer: -1. I can see why, but it didn’t really fit the intended 3 min read Sep 9, 2021 Infinity times three Happy fall! The last month has been a bit of a roller coaster at Mystery League HQ. After a few months of booking a few in-person events, 4 min read Aug 4, 2021 Paris and Lisboy Hello! The last week in our house has been spent devouring the Olympics. My favorite moment so far was actually in the Opening Ceremonies, when they performed this 4 min read Jul 7, 2021 Xiao Decca Man Hello! In the last issue I published a puzzle about a famous woman in American history with a three-part name. Then, a few weeks ago, I found 4 min read May 13, 2021 Ruth Baller Ginsburg The good news around these parts it that I'm finally, blessedly, fully vaxxed. Last week I spent time in a cafe, and went to see a 3 min read Mar 11, 2021 Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice This week marks the one year anniversary of the week everything changed for us here in Chicago. At the beginning of the week, our kids were in school, 4 min read Feb 16, 2021 Coffee & Honey Well! A lot has happened since I wrote you last. The biggest thing is that my team, Palindrome, won the MIT Mystery Hunt. The correct response to this 4 min read Nov 30, 2020 Lambchop Megadeth Hello, again! Hope you had a peaceful, restful weekend. It’s holiday season, which now involves figuring out what it means to have an entirely remote office holiday 3 min read