Themeless 1: “I can’t hear you along the shore!”
First crossword on this blog! I’d love to start posting more, so I hope at least someone enjoys them This one is meant to be around a NYT Friday level, and it has multiple mini-themes (the less…
Huntinality Recap
Going to try and get back into hunt recaps~~ (spoilers ahead obv) I ended up doing this hunt with only a team size of three as we were a little short-handed due to conflicts, which I felt…
CRUMS Puzzlehunt Recap
This is perhaps a tad late, but I’d like to recap the excellent CRUMS Puzzlehunt that took place the week after December 12th. I was curious what it was going to be like, with just six puzzles…
Recap: DaroCaro’s Pixar Puzzle Hunt
This past Friday I took a shot at the DaroCaro puzzlehunt. I had really no idea where it was going to lie on the puzzle-quality spectrum so I tried to go in with as open a mind…
On the Psychology of Metapuzzles and Short-circuiting
While solving puzzles is satisfying, nothing quite tops the adrenaline of cracking a metapuzzle. You’ve put all this work into gleaning these seemingly random words from these puzzles. You’ve solved the mystery of this set of images,…