At last year’s Mystery Hunt, when I woke up early Sunday morning to discover that the coin had already been found, I turned to a teammate and said sadly, “I wish Mystery Hunt could go on forever…” Blah blah you know what they say. The length and difficulty of this year’s hunt has spawned a [...]
I had a conversation with some of my housemates earlier this week about our favorite games, and I thought I’d expound on a few of mine for just a bit. These are all browser-based games, so they’re only a few clicks away. Auditorium is an abstract light and music puzzle that’s as much art as [...]
This week I visited New York and stayed with my cousins while their mother was in the hospital. Over the course of several days, my younger cousin, K, and I hacked the board game ‘Guess Who?’ Guess Who is not so terrible for a kids game. Or at least, it didn’t seem so bad after [...]
My sister asked me to make a puzzle hunt for her bachelorette party. While it’s tailored to her interests, it should be possible for anyone to solve – and hopefully pretty fun, too. There were three individual puzzles that made up the hunt: the baseball puzzle, the music puzzle, and the has-a-theme-but-figuring-out-what-it-is-part-of-the-puzzle puzzle. If you [...]
One of my favorite things to do at camp is to visit the game shelf. It’s stacked high with donated games, most of which sit unused for months at a time. Many of the games are for children much younger than those who go to camp. Others are missing vital pieces or are simply way [...]
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