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Let the word-of-mouth campaign begin! 17 Jun 2013 | 06:01 pm
If you like puzzles, I think you can consider this a Big Announcement. I work for a company that produces puzzle magazines. Easy crosswords, word seeks, sudokus — a great many of the magazines you see...
The probability that I know what I am talking about is zero 13 Mar 2013 | 09:12 pm
All right, math people, help me out. I just completed a section on probability with my daughter, and by and large she’s got it down. We both understand that if you flip a coin and roll a die, the prob...
I’m gonna sit right down and write myself 3,295 letters 11 Mar 2013 | 02:07 am
(Contains spoilers for the final puzzle of the tournament.) Hundreds of people compete each year at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, and the vast majority of these people have no expectation ...
Puzzlers Behind Bars 9 Mar 2013 | 12:14 am
The Maze of Games is a Kickstarter project from puzzlemaker Mike Selinker — he is promising a puzzle-filled update on a “Choose Your Adventure” story, and so appealing is this notion that he’s raised ...
State of the Homeschool 6 Mar 2013 | 07:26 pm
When you’re having doubts and apprehensions about the path that you’re on, there’s nothing like an inspirational TEDx talk from an eloquent, homeschooled, 13-year-old kid to turn those doubts into out...
Practice Meta #3: The Answer 28 Jan 2013 | 06:35 pm
Each answer refers to a form of divination, consisting of a prefix and the letters “-omancy.” (See the first three words of the flavortext for a little clue regarding this.) Each prefix can be found h...
Practice Meta #3: Incomplete Information Edition 25 Jan 2013 | 07:00 pm
Every single practice meta I’ve created, for three years now, has been a “pure” meta — a list of words and nothing more. I really wanted to come up with a decent “shell” meta, which requires the solve...
Practice Meta #2: The Answer 25 Jan 2013 | 06:00 pm
The answers can be divided into two groups such that a word in Group 1 clues a word in Group 2… but only after two letters are removed from the second word. These bigrams can be reorganized to spell t...
Another Practice Meta 24 Jan 2013 | 07:00 pm
Here’s another of the practice metas I presented to my MIT Hunt team in the weeks leading up to the hunt. As before, please do not reveal the answer in the comments — you can e-mail me (ericberlin@gma...
Practice Meta #1: The Answer 24 Jan 2013 | 06:00 pm
Many solvers picked up on the phrase “just your type” in the flavortext and took a look at their keyboards. Sure enough, the letters of each answer are contiguous on a standard keyboard… with the exce...
