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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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A while back, Quiara introduced the concept of a “Salomon number”. She explains it better than I could, but basically, how many collaborations do you need to go through to get from any given constructor to the greatest of all mentors, Nancy Salomon? Quiara says: As much as I wish there was an easy way…
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Way back when I used to make kaidoku more frequently (… over a decade ago) fellow kaidoku enthusiast Joon Pahk had an insane idea to make these harder. You see, normally in one of these puzzles you’d look for unusual letter patterns to help you get a foothold….
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PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver It’s a spiral! You know how to solve a spiral, right? When completed, this grid will contain two series of words—one reading inward from 1 to 100, the other outward from 100 back to 1. Every space will be used exactly twice. Work from both sets of clues…
PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Final Innervisions puzzle, and our special guest for this one is Kate Chin Park! You can find Kate’s puzzles literally everywhere, but I admit to being partial to her indie puzzles, where she can be as silly and creative and long-winded as she wants. If you want to…
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PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Back to the Innervisions puzzles, this time with special guest Shannon Rapp, aka Norah Sharpe! I don’t know how many collabs we’ve had at this point, but it’s a lot, and it’s always a pleasure. Speaking of Norah collabs, did you see her recent collab with Chris Adams?…
Read More “Puzzle #64: Don’t You Worry ’bout a Thing (feat. Norah Sharpe!)” »