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Perplex City
I casually keep an eye out for puzzle memorabilia, and I couldn't pass up the chance to scoop up a ...
Carnival Venezia: New York to Bahamas
The start of our nine day cruise to the Bahamas has been a bit of a whirlwind. Three days in, ...
MIT Mystery Hunt 2024
MIT Mystery Hunt has been running full steam ahead this weekend! A few weeks ago, I had this weekend circled ...
Escape Room Advent Calendar – GamesHub
Five Below occasionally gets discounted escape room games. I've previously found scenarios for the Spinmasters games there, and more recently ...
Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2023
I was on the fence about participating in Galactic Puzzle Hunt in 2023. I've participated before in the past and ...
Escape Room Visits
Tulsa, OK: Safehouse Tulsa – Crypt and Homicide
May 26, 2018 - No time for rest as I headed onward from Kansas City. In a last minute judgment ...
Kansas City, KS: Tick Tock Escape Room – Beasley’s Billions and Pyramid Paradox
May 26, 2018 - After staying overnight just southwest of St. Louis, I started early toward Kansas City, double and ...
Tigard, OR: Stumptown Escape Games – Oregon Files and Seance
June 9, 2018 - Tigard, Oregon was the last stop on a trip that started in Anchorage, Alaska. This was ...
Tacoma, WA: Freighthouse Station Escape – HH Holmes
June 8, 2018 - The Celebrity Millennium dumped my family and me off in Vancouver, and after a hike across ...
St. Louis, MO: St. Louis Escape – Subway
May 25, 2018 - St. Louis Escape looks scary from the outside. You enter through an unadorned staircase adjacent to ...
Commentary
Travel
On the Road: Springfield, MO
Jan 2, 2021 - Christina and I hit the road for the first time in a while to head down ...
Cancun: Relax & Puzzle
I can't believe we're already on the latter half of our trip to Cancun! This trip has been a little ...
Cancun: A New Adventure
For the first time in about four years, I'm going on a vacation in which it's possible I might not ...
Madison and the Dells: Five Unwanted Ducks
August 1, 2020 - After a somewhat uneventful night with a hotel check-in and a cookie, Christina and I had ...
COVID Tourism – Madison, WI
The times we live in continue to be interesting and unprecedented, and I'm not sure what this weekend is going ...
Mind Games
Escape Room International Championship – Qualifying Round
Though the Escape Room International Championship occurred after Red Bull Discovery Lab, I think it's more fitting to talk about ...
New Puzzle- Space Fantasy
It's been too long since I wrote a new puzzle, but inspiration struck today with the two-punch speaker event I ...
Rubik’s: First Solve, Heavily Guided
So... I can follow a tutorial! For the first time ever, I've completed a Rubik's Cube! ...
Chess: Cautious Optimism
So I may need to rethink my chess goal for the year- after 7 games, I'm 4-1-2 ...