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PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver We’re closing out the year with a collaboration with Will Eisenberg! This is our (checks notes) first collab together? Holy cow, how is that possible? Anyway, this was a super fun puzzle to work on with him, and hopefully we get to do it again some day. Thanks…
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PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver I am delighted to bring you this collaboration with… well, I can’t tell you, because the meta answer is my co-constructor for this puzzle. Without giving too much away, I can tell you that they wrote all the clues for this puzzle, subject to some very light editing…
PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver New puzzle featuring the wonderful Howard Barkin! This collab started like so many of mine, with me pitching an extremely dumb idea to someone I thought might be receptive to it. To my delight, Howard accepted, and together we made this larger-than-usual puzzle. As you might have suspected,…
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I’ve had a few people tell me they’d like to see more data around the Wisdom of Salomon website. As a data nerd myself I can’t believe I didn’t think of doing it earlier! So here goes. All data is current as of December 2022. The Graph Let’s start with the entire graph, if you…
PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Write what you know, right? I’m a huge fan of the Marx Brothers, so we’re going to do a series of 11 puzzles, one for each of their Paramount and MGM films. If I’m feeling especially motivated, I’ll do the two UA films too, but no one cares…
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PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver What? But it’s not Friday! Why is there a puzzle? Well, special occasion: there’s a walkout at the NYT today and in solidarity we’ve been asked not to engage with any NYT content, including the games. If you’re looking for the Spelling Bee, why not do Hexagon Lexicon…
PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver I half-jokingly pitched a very silly idea to Quiara a while back, and a few days later she said Yeah. We know this isn’t a super-serious puzzle, so we made the grid design and clues reflect it. We think it’s fun and test-solver Kate agrees! So we hope…
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