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Puzzler Take a word that can mean “criminals,” as well as a word for a kind of crime. Merge the two words together to get a single word that describes how some crimes are committed. What words are these? Puzzlesnacks on Kickstarter PuzzlesnacksClever, bite-sized puzzles for kids and adultsKickstarter My

Next Tuesday, on March 5, we’ll be in San Francisco at the Barrel Head Brewhouse to put on our game The Unknown Islands. It’s a two-hour escape-room-at-a-table for teams of 8. As of this writing, 25 tickets remain. Pick up a ticket — or buy out a whole table

Mystery League is heading to San Francisco! I’ll be in town March 3 - 6. If you’d like me to put one of my games for you and your co-workers on one of those days, please reply to this email ASAP. I may also put on a public

Puzzler Take a woman’s first name. If you follow it with a certain five-letter word, you get someone famous. On the other hand, if you precede it with the opposite word, also five letters, you get a famous song title. What name and song are these? Galactic Puzzle Hunt

Puzzler What state’s abbreviation, when spoken aloud, sounds like an example of the nickname of the state’s largest city? How the Digital Era Has Changed the Daily Crossword … a simple web search on a term can be done with the click of a button, and it can sometimes

Puzzler Name a word you might use as a first word in a conversation. Change one letter and you’ll end up with a word that means, in some contexts, “first”. What words are these? Agents of F.I.E.L.D. Reddit AMA Agents of F.I.E.L.

Chicagoans: I’m putting on my tabletop puzzle game The Unknown Islands Thursday night (November 15) at Empirical Brewery. In it, you and your team are secret agents who must break into the bag and use the objects you find inside — a bottle, ancient coins, postcards, a newspaper, a whale-watching

Here’s a creative challenge. Yesterday’s twitter puzzle combined a fantastical musical duo along with a song they should cover: * Brian May & The Decemberists, “A Thousand Years” * Cat Power & Snoop Dogg, “Singin’ in the Rain” * Lorde & James Taylor, “Sharp Dressed Man” * Prince & John Popper, “It’

The autumn is rich will puzzle hunts: DASH [https://playdash.org/DASH10/], Puzzle Boat [http://www.pandamagazine.com/island5/], Mark Halpin’s Labor Day set [http://www.markhalpin.com/puzzles/puzzles.html], Cryptic Puzzle Hunt [http://crypticpuzzlehunt.epizy.com/], and now REDDOT (link below). Battle that SAD by digging into

I’m continuing to publish daily Twitter puzzles at @pzlr [https://twitter.com/pzlr]. Each tweet offers five items that share a quality and asks you to reply with another item with that same quality. I’m trying to come up with puzzles that allow room for some creative expression.

Over the last week, I’ve been publishing daily Twitter puzzles. I was inspired by — and using the same format as — P&A Magazine, who’s been posting their own for a while, and @puzzletheory, who did the same kind of thing years ago. Each tweet offers five items

Puzzler Name a product found in a supermarket checkout line, in two words. Remove the space and 2 adjacent letters, and change the last letter, and you’ll end up with one word that describes an activity only possible to do at night. What are they? Anti-Match Game: Announcer’s

I just returned from the 179th National Puzzlers League Convention, known informally as the Con, in Milwaukee, a brilliant three days of meeting fellow puzzle mavens, solving puzzles, and playing original games designed by attendees that you can’t find anywhere else. It was my first time going, but I

On July 11, I’ll be in Denver at the Crooked Stave to put on my newest puzzle game, Mystery in the Galleries. It’s a 90-120 minute escape-room-at-a-table for teams of 6. EventBrite will be set up soon, so for now, follow this link to save yourself a spot.