Kids, if anybody knows the solution to the How I Met Your Mother puzzle, it’s probably Chris Harris. [ Download mp3 – 26 MB ] 00:59 – “comedic”01:43 – who were The Gipperian Advillains?05:32 – their adorable application video for…
Friday Flash Fiction: “Parents Just Don’t Understand”
Yes, I am, in fact, writing my own goddamn fanfic. Because who the hell else is going to do it? Also note that I would totally have used this picture for the illustration, if it had been properly CC-licensed. (I…
SnoutCast #93: SEAHOP Player Debrief
In which Ana, Katie, Matt, Rob, and Vic tell us about playing in the 2011 Seattle Epic and Awesome Hunt O’ Puzzles (SEAHOP)! (Apologies for the inferior sound quality; our dining room is not an ideal recording environment.) [ Download…
Friday Flash Fiction: “Runaways”
I can neither confirm nor deny that this scene was inspired or influenced by a mash-up of The Matrix and Hanna. (Wow, that sentence had a lot of unnecessary words. Have I mentioned I’m doing NaNoWriMo?) Read “Runaways” at 512…
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…
Friday Flash Fiction: “Just Another Fish Story”
One hundred years ago, Edith Wharton’s novel Ethan Frome was published. The first line of that novel, now in the public domain, is the same as the first line of this week’s story. I was inspired to recycle it by…
SnoutCast #91: GC Loves Volunteers
Because not only can helpers make or break a puzzlehunt event; volunteering on GC is also the gateway drug to running a puzzlehunt yourself. And you know how much we like to encourage that! [ Download mp3 – 28 MB…
Pictures from an OryCon
…OryCon 33, to be precise, which happened this past weekend in Portland, Oregon. DeeAnn was this year’s Liaison for Artist Guest of Honor (GoH) Jim Pavelec, and we watched him do a painting demonstration: https://picasaweb.google.com/sparckl/OryCon33JimPavelecArtistGoH Our friends The Doubleclicks performed…
Friday Flash Fiction: “Inheritance”
If it weren’t for weird, disjointed dreams, I might not get half the ideas that end up becoming 512s. This one was more textual than visual, but the latter might figure more in a follow-up, in which Eddie Jr. has…
SnoutCast #90: BANG 28 Debrief
Corey “Weird Al’s Doppelgänger” Anderson, Dan “Puzzle Hunt Calendar” Egnor, Doug “You Wouldn’t Like Me When I’m Angry” Zongker, and Dr. Melinda Owens tell us all about running BANG 28. (I can neither confirm nor deny that I’m still a…