Puzzles

Puzzled Pint is a social puzzle solving event which happens on the second Tuesday of every month in numerous cities around the globe. Visit their website at http://www.puzzledpint.com/ for more information and to play archived sets of puzzles.

Here are five full sets of puzzles that I wrote for them, and two single ones written as "bonus" puzzles for other peoples' sets.

The Princess Bride

Birthday Puzzles

I love to create personalized treasure hunts for people for their birthdays. I've tried to write walk-around treasure hunts for "the general public," but they never seem to come together well. Birthday hunts work much better for three reasons. For one thing, I do best with a concrete, mid-range deadline. For a second, when I'm constructing it, it really helps to imagine my specific friend enjoying it; that gets me past the inevitable brick walls that come up. For a third, I find that I create best when I have a restrictive structure to hang things on. With birthday puzzles, that structure is: 1) What the present is towards which I'm aiming them, 2) What sorts of themes they like (cats, baseball, etc.) and 3) What kinds of puzzles they like to do and at what level of difficulty.

I've done over 30 personalized hunts by now, and here are some of my favorites (most of the ones I make aren't nearly as complex as these! But that's part of what makes them my favorites).

Some of my puzzles made it on TV!

Greek Myths

The host of a Toronto-based daily talk show went to the bar and attacked the whole set of puzzles with his wife/co-conspirator.

Greek Mythology

Murder Mystery Comic Book

Bonus puzzle 1 - Pint by Numbers

Bonus puzzle 2 - Mystery Month puzzle