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prog ([personal profile] prog) wrote2007-04-01 09:24 pm
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Puzzles and Answers magazine

Puzzles and Answers magazine has become an excellent pastime of [livejournal.com profile] classicaljunkie and myself. I can recommend it to anyone who enjoys puzzle hunts / extravanganzas, like MIT's mystery hunt or The Fool's Errand - a set of themed puzzles whose answers combine into a meta-puzzle, which itself yields the whole set's ultimate solution.

Each bimonthly issue serves as a standalone extravaganza and costs $5, purchasable online and then downloadable as a PDF. The latest issue, themed around reality TV, seems easier than the last one, or at least closer to my own skill level. After a few hours of leisurely solving today we knocked over two of them and got into "I've filled out the grid; now what" territory with two more. If you're going to try out a single issue, I would recommend this one.

[identity profile] tahnan.livejournal.com 2007-04-02 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
If you need nudges, of course, you can always contact the issue's testsolver...

[identity profile] prog.livejournal.com 2007-04-02 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Part of the reason I posted this was bait for the testsolvers to reveal themselves. :) (I'd heard you helped with it and was about to IM you directly, at first...)

[identity profile] tahnan.livejournal.com 2007-04-03 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Dude, read the masthead. :-)