This month, we talked to the world’s only female enigmatologist, Stacy Costa at the University of Toronto, who helped create the recent “Research Matters” Virtual Scavenger Hunt!
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Show length: 49:49
File size: 47.8MB
Our conversation topics included (but were not limited to):
- The Puzzle Instinct, a book by her mentor, Marcel Danesi
- The variety of Clues in the “Research Matters” Virtual Scavenger Hunt
- How this may or may not be the company which hired Stacy to write puzzles for their cereal boxes
- That guy who cheated at a sudoku competition (and was eventually disqualified)
- “Memory & Imagination: The Role of Enigma,” a University of Toronto Continuing Studies class Stacy will teach this fall
- The Toronto Star’s That’s Puzzling! magazine, compiled weekly by Danesi & Costa
Follow @Stacy_A_Costa on Twitter for more!
What Else?
- Sign up to play DASH 6 on April 26th in a city near you
- Check out Puzzled Pint on April 8th in Portland, Seattle, London, Missoula, or Chicago
- Find more events on Puzzle Hunt Calendar
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Music: instrumentals from “Code Monkey” and “The Future Soon” by Jonathan Coulton
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