PUZZLE SPOILERS AHEAD! This week, we debrief last month’s Elevate Tutoring 2012 Online Holiday Puzzle Hunt with creator Bob Schaffer and player Matt Cleinman. [ Download mp3 – 24 MB ] 00:59 – “online”01:57 – previously: BANG 33, re-run, and…
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SnoutCast #139: Horseshoes and Hand Grenades
Inspired in part by @OdinsHunt, a protracted, spoiler-riddled discussion of a time-honored puzzle tradition: backsolving! [ Download mp3 – 36 MB ] 00:59 – “approximate”02:08 – hey, remember that Hunt for Odin’s Horse thing?04:44 – on the posting of past…
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SnoutCast #138: Gamer Profile – Corby Anderson
This week, an extended conversation with Corby Anderson, late of WarTron Game Control! [ Download mp3 – 42 MB ] 00:00 – teaser: “every single show…type type type”01:25 – “wordy”02:22 – reminiscing about JoCo Cruise Crazy 204:07 – whence thy…
SnoutCast #108: Dead Man’s Quest? The Puzzles
SPOILER ALERT: We discuss the inner workings of many, if not all, of the JoCo Cruise Crazy II treasure hunt puzzles in this podcast. If you want to try solving the puzzles yourself (they’ll be online soon, we promise), DO…
Yes, Mom, That IS Me
Herewith, an excerpt from I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 by Douglas Edwards, page 354: (I’m pretty sure this is the first time my name has appeared in an actual book from a major publisher. Top…
Friday Flash Fiction: “It’s in There”
Those three words were seared into my brain long ago. Allow me to share: Anyway. If you’re a puzzler like me, you already know that pizza can contain data; I had firsthand experience with this in The Goonies Game (2003)….
SnoutCast #101: Gamer Profile – TODD ETTER, Boneless Chicken Cabaret
Did you know that all of 2012’s “Shinteki Puzzle of the Month” (POTM) puzzles (starting tomorrow, January 25th) will be written by Todd Etter of The Motley Fool? And all solvers can win prizes at the end of the year?…
SnoutCast #92: DeeAnn’s Complex Relationship with Puzzles
In which we explore how a woman who admits she doesn’t love puzzles nevertheless creates at least one new puzzle every month. [ Download mp3 – 28 MB ] 00:59 – “fastidious”01:59 – “Let’s talk about Puzzled Pint!”03:50 – INDEX…
SnoutCast #66: “WHO Knows”
This week, we talk to Jett Jones, one of the evil masterminds behind the World Henchmen Organization (WHO) Game! Also: we neglected to mention it in this show, but you can always find upcoming event info at PuzzleHuntCalendar.com. See what’s…
SnoutCast #64: “Homicide: Life on the Farm – 10 Years Later”
Team Snout ran our first weekend-long puzzle hunt a full decade ago, in May of 2001. This week, we have an extra-long chat with Sean Gugler about some of his contributions to that event and what we’ve learned (or not)…