Aug 25, 2020

Mission San Juan Kubo

By Sandor Weisz • Issue #69 • View online

Fall is around the corner, and with it comes a bunch of juicy puzzle events. Mark Halpin publishes his annual Labor Day puzzle set on Saturday, Sep 5th. They’re always a brilliant, difficult set of puzzles that keep me occupied for days or weeks. Then there’s Puzzle Boat 7, launching October 10th. A wide range of word and logic puzzles by Foggy Brume, PB can be a weeks-long endeavor, even for a big team.

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Puzzle of the Week. Today’s puzzle was also featured this week on the Sunday Puzzle on NPR.

Think of a place on earth with a four-word name. Take the third word. Advance three of its letters to the next letter of the alphabet (so A would become B, B would be come C, etc.). You’ll get the fourth word in the name. What place is this?

Submit your answer here. (And/or to NPR 😁)

The Crossword Revolution Is Upon Us | Time

A long-overdue profile on USA Today crossword editor and prolific puzzle constructor Erik Agard, who is working to break the feedback loop of white-, male- and Euro-centric crossword fills. I love Erik’s grids, which always have a feeling of freshness to them. I also love, as this profile shows, that he sees crosswords as a place to introduce new concepts, not just reaffirm the things you already know.

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Send A Damned Message

A fun, pattern-matching, interactive puzzle game that escalates in difficulty as you clear each level.

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The Curious Correspondence Club

A new mail-based escape game from the some of the makers of the Mysterious Package Company. $20/month.

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COCOA - the Conundrum Cognitive Assessment test

Bruce Leban has a fun take on that cognitive test that you may have heard about in the news.

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Solution to the previous puzzle

YBTNEVGUZ -> NYTBEVGUZ (in rot-13)

From Issue #68

Congrats to all who solved it correctly: Scott Handelman, Kevin Keating, Peter M, Kyle Hustek, Rob J., Andy Simmons, Kelly Kitsch, Ravi Nadimpalli, T. Giannetti, Chris Jones, Vince Messina, Scott Joy, Corey McMahon, Rose Marcin, Prescott, Thomas, FW, Integral, FW, Tommy, Sami Casanova, John S., Q, Jocelyn Compton, Dave Grossman, Beth Davenport, Aw, Matt Straus, Justin M, Jimmy Smith, Morgan D, Neville Fogarty, Mitch Ferris, Mitch Ferris, Adina, Robin Lim, Cynical Bear, Adam Sadoff, Debbie Muller, Lindsey, Chris Comerford, Riley, Alex, Kelly McMahon, Brian Ho, Maddy and Alex, Mark T, Don Ray, Lauren M., Dean S., Sarah M, Zach Zilbershatz, Gina Qin, Raghav Matta, Mark Vandenbark, Matt, Shane Simmons, Anand Desai, Eric Yew, Tim Berberich, Dan T, Mindy Mentzel, S.A.T., Min, Sebastian L., Ed L, Dallas, Tim Davis, Kailin Johnson, Todd Benson, dog cohen, Kassonova, Palmer Lao, Emilie, Brian Perkins, Portia J. Henry-Warren, Rachel Quest, Dana Jara, Grant Anderson, Will W, hjjc, Andrew Stern, Eric Flowers,

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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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