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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

Thanks for sending all the great ideas about where I should hold hunts. Still going through them and getting back to people. Please keep sending on ideas! Puzzler In honor of the playoffs, here’s a baseball puzzle. Name a professional baseball team. Swap the first two letters and — phonetically

Question for you: Where should I host my next puzzle hunt? Could be a museum, a park, neighborhood, gathering space, restaurant, underground bunker, hotel lobby, anything. Hit reply and let me know. I’m looking for ideas. Puzzler Think of someone who has won multiple Oscars. Change one letter in

Thank you for taking the time to read these. If you find something online that you think I’d like, please hit “reply” and send it. I’d love to see it. Or you can post it on my Facebook page. If you live in Chicago, you’d be wise

Happy fall. Here is some stuff I enjoyed this week. Puzzler Name two actors who played father and son in a recent movie. One actor shares his last name with a popular brand. The other’s last name is a word used to describe a person who uses that brand.

I just got back from the XOXO Festival in Portland, which is always a whirlwind of inspiration and friendship. Got to do one puzzle room while there, Spark of Resistance, which was great, go do it if you’re ever in Portland. Came away with lots of new inspiration for

Fall is here. Apparently that means it’s team-building season. To that end, I need your help — I’m building a few puzzle games for clients and I need playtesters. I will be running 60-minute playtesting sessions at my office in Chicago’s Bucktown neighborhood on October 22, 23 and

This Saturday sees the launch of Mark Halpin’s annual Labor Day Puzzle Extravaganza. I was introduced to Halpin’s work two years ago, when I helped some friends with the 2014 set. Ever since, my wife and I have been slowly exploring his back catalog (see below), which is

…can be found over at dispatch.mysteryleague.com [http://dispatch.mysteryleague.com/]. We're moving them over here, one by one.