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Hello! I’m back from Summer break and ready to do get back into the puzzle-making swing of things. Puzzler Think of a word for something that includes a list of food. Add one letter and rearrange the letters to get something that might also contain a list of food.

Regular reminder that you should follow us on Twitter, where we post a new puzzle every day. Puzzler Take a 2016 movie in five letters. Change the first letter to the next letter of the alphabet to get a 2018 movie. What movies are these? The Art and Politics of

Hi, I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. No, seriously. 4+ years after starting this dang business, I’ve finally set up a company profile on LinkedIn, which is apparently a thing you should do. Please give us a follow if LinkedIn is a thing

Seeking playtesters. We’re building a new tabletop puzzle game, and it’s almost done, which means we need to observe people playing it. If you’re in Chicago over the next week, and you want to play, and you like free pizza, please sign up here. The Last Defender

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