Category: Puzzles

I normally write about the annual MIT Mystery Hunt within a day or two of its conclusion. The 2024 edition, however, seems to still be going on. Ostensibly a puzzle…

Back in 2012, I made a joke on Facebook. I said that if I presented a bunch of words and claimed it was a puzzle, that my friends would be…

I’m the guest this week on the Reality Escape Pod, talking about crosswords and Puzzlesnacks and all sorts of other puzzly topics. Listen at your favorite podcast site, or right…

My new download-and-solve puzzle hunt, “Into The Words,” is available for your downloading-and-solving pleasure! Ten puzzles, including a metapuzzle, just right for a few hours of solo solving or some…

I’ve been asked this question a few times over the last couple of months. It is a very polite question, insofar as it probably doesn’t need to be asked at…

Tomorrow, Puzzlesnacks subscribers will get to try a brand new puzzle type: “Consonant Companions!” It’s a neat two-grid format — consonants go in the shaded squares, and vowels in the…

It’s been a long time coming, but two new collections of Puzzlesnacks puzzles are now available! We’re trying something new this time — instead of downloading them from the Puzzlesnacks…

There are two new case studies on the Puzzles page — the charity project Puzzles for Democracy, and an exciting recent project, the Rule The Word Challenge, commissioned by the…

There are two new offerings in the Puzzlesnacks Shop! For kids, I’ve got a mini puzzle hunt: Crime For Breakfast! This is the set of puzzles I brought with me…

Back in the fall, I started getting itchy to do another puzzle project for charity. The Social Distancing Puzzles had done pretty well, raising thousands of dollars for Feeding America…