Apr 8, 2019

Crookshanks

Crookshanks

By Sandor Weisz • Issue #53 • View online

Puzzle of the Week. 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?

Submit your answers here.

Puzzlesnacks on Kickstarter

My friend Eric Berlin is launching a new bite-sized puzzle service, for kids and adults. $36 gets you a unique, original word puzzle every week for a year. And your money helps support Eric’s efforts to deliver these puzzles for free to kids around the world.

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Baba Is You Is Favorite

Welcome to my new obsession. The rules for this puzzle game are embedded in the game itself. Meaning you can push them around to change how you can push them around. Every level is a delightful mindfuck. Link above is to Steam, but you can also get it for Switch.

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Is The Best Puzzle Ever A Wordsearch About Canadian Prime Ministers?!

This puzzle in last month’s Galactic Puzzle Hunt fried my brain. Here’s a great recap.

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PostCurious | Immersive Puzzle Games | Home

In this tabletop narrative puzzle adventure, you are a private investigator tasked with finding two missing professors from the Emerens Institute, but when information is uncovered about a mysterious relic found by an archaeological team, you have the opportunity to change the course of destiny.

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Solution to previous puzzle

PVAPVAANGV ERQF <– FG. YBHF OYHRF –> HGNU WNMM

From Issue #52. Congrats to everyone who got it right: Dr. Eamus Catuli, Jason Bunch, Mike Westfall, TR, Chelsea Lang, Daniel Marcin, Laura S., Jonathan Sheffi, Chandler B., Matt N., Andrew Walker, Heather Kennedy, Wombat, Sarah L, Joe Longname, Jimmy Smith, Jon Cudby, Nick Baxter, “Michael”, Jon R., Brian Kupersmit, Yossi Fendel, Thebigdude, Chris Helms, Jeremy B., Beth Davenport, Rex, Codiak, Bollo, Adam G., Quiz Quiztofferson, David Jakubiak, Yousuf Ahmed, Risa, John Broussard, Justin Storch, Cory S, Will M, Justin Campoli, Curtis, Scott Hodges, Brad Temple, Dave-Train, Matt C, Kilgore Trout, Nick salvia.

Honorable mention to Eric M, who submitted this great alternate solution: Los Angeles DODGERS <– Anaheim DUCKS –> New Orleans PELICANS.

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By Sandor Weisz

I run The Mystery League, a company of creative puzzlemakers in Chicago. This is my weekly dispatch of puzzle news. To learn about puzzle events in Chicago, subscribe to Puzzling in Chicago: http://mysteryleague.com/pic.

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