Nov 14, 2018

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Oh el el

By Sandor Weisz • Issue #45 • View online

Chicagoans: I’m putting on my tabletop puzzle game The Unknown Islands Thursday night (November 15) at Empirical Brewery. In it, you and your team are secret agents who must break into the bag and use the objects you find inside — a bottle, ancient coins, postcards, a newspaper, a whale-watching guide, and a mysterious starfish-shaped computer — to complete the mystery. It’s two hours of intense, elegant puzzling.

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Puzzle of the Week. Take something frequently written in text messages. Swap two letters and say the result out loud, and phonetically you’ll describe something else frequently written in text messages. What are they?

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Clandestine | Field Notes

We teamed up with Field Notes to help design their latest edition: Clandestine. The notebooks are gorgeous specimens on their own, but look closely and you’ll find layers of puzzles hidden inside. And… there may be more waiting for you outside the book.

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The Inkubator by Laura Braunstein —Kickstarter

Five days left on this project, which promotes crossword puzzles by women – cis women, trans women, and woman-aligned constructors.

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Former CIA Chief Explains How Spies Use Disguises

Former Chief of Disguise for the CIA, Jonna Mendez, explains how disguises are used in the CIA, and what aspects to the deception make for an effective disguise.

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Weird Things Found While Researching Puzzles

One perk of this job is I get to spend a lot of time on Wikipedia learning weird new shit. Today we feature Ole Worm, 17th century physician and historian.

Ole Worm - Wikipedia

Ole Worm is known for proving — wait for it — that lemmings did not spontaneously generate out of thin air.

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Solution to previous puzzle

FHCREZNEXRG, CNCRE BE CYNFGVP

From Issue #44. Congrats to all the people who got it right! Todd, Matt N, Fuzzy Gerdes, BS, Steven McKinney, Andrew P, Heather Kennedy, Jonathan Sheffi, Jimmy Smith, Christopher Atkinson, Emily, Katje, Rebecca W., Eric G, Yossi Fendel, R. Quest, Kid Beyond, C. Ward, Erin Milligan-Milburn, Cera Ward, Rey Lowery, Jake Robinson

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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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