The first few weeks of 2019 have been rough. I’ve been focused nearly around the clock on a project for work, and any free time I’ve had has quickly been scooped up by other responsibilities. I haven’t traveled anywhere since the trip to St. Joseph, Michigan (over a month ago), and it’s been a few weeks since I’ve done a local escape room. I’ve been getting stir crazy.
It’s always tough to determine how much outside knowledge is fair for a puzzle. Is it fair game to have a puzzle that connects to a calendar? Roman numerals? Pi?
I have to open off with a serious congratulations to Scott S., who solve last week’s puzzle almost immediately after I posted it. I was afraid the puzzle might be a little unfair, but Scott didn’t seem to mind! With a recent holiday in the books, today’s puzzle is holiday themed.
June 9, 2018 – Tigard, Oregon was the last stop on a trip that started in Anchorage, Alaska. This was easily the longest trip I took in 2018 (the only one more than a week), but it was also a candidate for most memorable. Stumptown Escape Games was a fitting endcap for the trip, leaving me with some great memories and a wish to return to try the other rooms.
A lot of my recent numeric puzzles have been tied to outside relationships of things typically associated with numbers. Today I wanted to go back to having one that dealt purely with numbers & mathematics. This time, if you hate mathematics, you should probably steer clear!
June 8, 2018 – The Celebrity Millennium dumped my family and me off in Vancouver, and after a hike across Vancouver and an eventful Greyhound bus ride (a story for another time, titled “Poodunit”), I arrived in Seattle. My plan was to grab a rental car in Seattle and catch an escape room south of the city, and Tacoma seemed like a great candidate.
I feel like I’m always apologizing for my late puzzles. While I’m always secretly hoping I’ll find time to create a bunch of riddles at the same time and then not have to worry about it for a while, I’m usually stuck trying to come up with something at the last minute. But I’ve got a new one cooked up!
Sorry for the delay, but my new puzzle will be posted tomorrow! In the meantime, I have a quick announcement to make. I’m currently building an app that’ll make it easy to learn Morse code. Updates coming soon!
If you like the puzzles about GUM/MUG and SNIP/PINS, then you’ll like this one. If not… Next week? I’m revisiting that same template but bumping the puzzle up to five letters instead of four. Jon C. upstaged all of these with a STRESSED/DESSERTS 8-letter find, but I’ll keep plugging along with my lower totals.
December 7, 2018 – One month after completing an escape room in Idaho and finishing my 50 state goal, I was feeling stir crazy. Between holidays, illnesses, and buying a new car, I’ve been stuck in the suburbs of Chicago every week, with only a quick trip over the border to the Milwaukee area to break things up a little. This weekend was no different, with a Christmas party and a Blackhawks game to go to. Still, no snow on the roads and an open Saturday left me feeling ok with getting out of town.
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