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Mayor of the North Pole

Monday, February 15th, 2010

[NOTE: I've posted some recent developments at the bottom. ]
I’ve been blatantly cheating at foursquare for the past week. I didn’t mean to start the week this way. Most of my friends know me as a responsible father who occasionally plays piano at local open mics, and makes puzzles.
Last Sunday, while checking into [...]

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The Griddle

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

The Griddle is a beautifully designed puzzle site by David Millar. It will especially appeal to more advanced solvers who are bored with the same-old same-old.
You’ll find a new puzzle variety, in PDF format, nearly every day, including some interesting variants on Sudoku, Kakuro and Slitherlink.
Check it out!

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Two Crossfigure Puzzles

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

I received some interesting hand-made Crossfigure puzzles from Israeli puzzle constructor Yochanan. He says he learned the technique of making these puzzles when he was “still a fairly young man, about seventy or so,” from L.G. Horsefield.
These numeric crosswords are similar to Kakuro and KenKen puzzles, but have greater variety in the clues. [...]

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Gumbasia

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

via Laughing Squid, which eulogized Art Clokey today

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