Insight Required

NYPL Puzzle Contest

evan — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:45:43 +0000

The New York Public Library, as part of its centennial celebration, hosted a puzzle contest, with clues scattered throughout the famous building and its usually-off-limits stacks.

The contest has an accompanying game which is free to play and will stretch your creativity.

Really Simple Answer

evan — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000

Puzzles for June 4, 2011 - Really Simple Answer

Snakes On A Plane

evan — Sat, 28 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000

Puzzles for May 28, 2011 - Snakes On A Plane

Solving Puzzles Satisfies The Nimble Brain

evan — Thu, 12 May 2011 18:56:13 +0000

I recently stumbled upon a half-hour NPR program about puzzles.

It’s All Greek To Me

evan — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Puzzles for May 12, 2011 - It’s All Greek To Me

Interesting Linguistic Puzzles

evan — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:59:44 +0000

These puzzles are quite interesting. They present a variety of words/short phrases in uncommon or dying languages which model patterns typical of that language, and prompt you to deduce other related phrases in that language. There are easy, medium, hard, and ultra-hard puzzles, categorized by ski trail difficulties.

Some of them are straight-forward, but some are quite tough! I had a blast doing the first few.

nOisE Is Signal

jayant — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000

Puzzles for September 6, 2010 - nOisE Is Signal

It’s The Destination That Counts

evan — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:15:00 +0000

Puzzles for August 14, 2010 - It’s The Destination That Counts

This puzzle was extremely annoying to construct.

Working Titles, Ultimately Discarded* for Numerous Reasons, Prominently Featuring Length. Conciseness Counts.

jayant — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000

This was a fun puzzle to make.

Kmvgcm

evan — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Puzzles for August 7, 2010 - Kmvgcm