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NEW GAME. I’m putting the finishing touches on my new table-based puzzle game, The Unknown Islands, and I’m running a couple final playtests this Thursday and next at the Chicago Design Museum. Buy tickets here. Or keep reading to win a couple of them for half-off… 📖  📖  📖 PUZZLE OF

I’m recovering from the 55-hour puzzle marathon that is the MIT Mystery Hunt. My team, Palindrome, placed 3rd, just an hour or so out of first place. I’m still processing all the production and clever puzzle design that went into the event. Once Death & Mayhem (the organizing

Hi again! Puzzler Take the full name of a famous singer. Remove a letter, and add a letter, to the first name to get a kind of business. Then remove 3 letters from the last name to get something you’d find on the floor of that business. Who is

Puzzler Name a famous European figure from the 19th century, whose name contains three words. Remove 3 consecutive letters, and you’ll end up with a famous American figure from the 20th century, in two words. Who are they? Tired Of People Running Through The Hallway, This Company Decided To

🐉 Creatures in Seattle! We’re running Creatures on the Loose on October 3rd, at Optimism Brewery. 🎟 Tickets are here. We may also run it October 5th, if get enough interest. If that date’s better for you, log your interest here. Puzzler Think of a female celebrity, eight letters total

From October 3 - 6, I’ll be in Seattle. I’m there to put on 🦄  Creatures for a client, but I’ve got plenty of time to put on a public game, as well as more private games. Please get in touch if you’d like me to put

It’s data science week on the Dispatch! Puzzler Think of a two-word English phrase that’s been anglicized from its French origins. Reverse the order of the words, add a letter to the end, and you’ll get a new two-word phrase that might describe a French person’s

This week's Puzzler is apparently an oldie, but I stumbled across it across it on my own, so I’m gonna include it anyway. Take that, the past. Puzzler Think of a word in 9 letters. Rearrange the letters to get two nouns that are both part of

Puzzler Name a place on Earth in eleven letters. Seven of these letters appear chronologically in the alphabet. What place is this? Hunt for Justice Puzzle Hunt I’m contributing a puzzle to this charity puzzle hunt, where all the proceeds go to benefit the Innocence Project. Lots of good

Still plenty of tickets available for our Boulder, CO event on July 25.  Please tell your friends in Boulder and Denver! Puzzler Name an actress. Remove a letter in her last name to get a crime. Change one letter and rearrange the letters of her first name to get a

Puzzler Take the first name of a famous woman. Remove the first letter to get a noun, phonetically. This woman is arguably both the most famous person with this name and the most well-known example of this noun. Who is it? Puzzle Boat 4 by Foggy Brume —Kickstarter Puzzle Boat

Attention Washington, D.C. friends! I’d like to bring Creatures on the Loose to your town on the evening of May 4th. But I don’t know the city at all, and could use some help finding a venue. If you have ideas, or even if you don’t

Puzzler What 20th century figure’s last name is made up of three consecutive U.S. state abbreviations? DASH 9 tickets are for sale. DASH 9 - Department of Applied Synergistic HumanitiesDASH 9 HomepageDepartment of Applied Synergistic Humanitiesdann webster It’s DASH time! Different Area Same Hunt: A day-long puzzle

Puzzler The TV show LOST has all its letters in alphabetical order. Name two Oscar-winning movies — both five letters long — that also have this property. The Universe of Discourse: I found the best anagram in English The Universe of Discourse : I found the best anagram in English Which two words

We continue to add more Chicago dates for our popular escape-room-in-a-box, Creatures on the Loose!. Currently there are three events in March you can buy tickets for. I’d love to bring the game to another city for a weekend; if you want us to come to where you live,

Puzzler Name a food in 7 letters. Change one letter, anagram it, and you’ll have an activity that this food will allow you to do more of, according to a certain person. Creatures on the Loose! puzzle game • Wed, Feb 1 @ 6:00 PM Creatures on the Loose! puzzle

Happy 2017, the first prime year since 2011, and the last until 2027. MIT Mystery Hunt is just a few days away, and for the first time in my life, I’m going. Can’t believe it took me this long. If you’ll be there too, let’s find

Chicagoans! We’d love to see you at our first public puzzle event, Creatures on the Loose!, next week on the 28th, at the Revolution Tap Room. Follow the first link below. If you’re not in Chicago (or even if you are), we’d love to see you send

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