A question about manners for you: Rumor has it that wearing a mask in public won't be frowned upon much longer. I have a used disposable N95 mask left over from a fire season. I wore it for some qui...
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Question for you: If you're like most folks, you know it's good to get early feedback on projects but you don't like it when someone judges your rough, unpolished work. How do you get yourself to nev...
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Question for folks who say "Don't punch Richard Spencer": Suppose I see Richard Spencer on the street giving an interview or whatever. What should I do instead? I concede that punching him probably w...
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Guesses about this year's MIT Mystery Hunt Theme?
I'm preparing to update the commonly-used-word list and commonly-used-phrase lists at the phraser page. The MIT Mystery Hunt is approaching rapidly. So I'm freshening the "raw material" for those lis...
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tough question
Someone asked me how to authenticate a painting. Put your contact information on your web site; you'll get some interesting, albeit misdirected, questions. ...
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IFTTT users, I am newly amongst your ranks. Any recipes I should use? (I used it to syndicate my blog to FB, Twitter, and Tumblr…but I know it's a generally-useful doohickey. Which I'm current...
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Speaking of "what's this kind of puzzle called?", what is "Put together the letter-triples ION ISS NSM TRA to form a word"? It's kind of an anagram, but easier since you've got three triples instead ...
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Puzzle Hunts are Everywhen, even the so-called "Stupid Hours"
A coupla weeks back, I gave a talk at the 2011 GC Summit. (Many thanks to Shinteki and Snout for organizing!) My talk was about time and the 2-Tone Game. E.g., at what time of day did teams mostly p...
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2-Tone Game: What do you want to know?
Suppose I gave a short talk on the 2-Tone Game at the upcoming GC Summit. What would you want to hear about? Yeah, I wrote designer's notes, but those are hard to slog through. Yeah, the Snoutcast fo...
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Salvaged from Facebook: More on Observing Playtesters
A while back, I posted a plea for Game Control folks to offer up insights on how they Observe Playtesters. That got some interesting replies scattered around the internets. It also got some replies...
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Was Rich Bragg's record for longest http://2tonegame.org/ puzzle solve five months? Because I just noticed that another person took seven months on a puzzle. ...
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longest gap between solves?
Someone, I'm not sure who, finished the 2 Tone Game today and used its built-in taunting system to ask: yay, finally got the last one, so do i win the prize for longest gap between solves? More t...
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Question for GCs: Observing Playtesters
The latest episode of Snoutcast is about location scouting for games. But my brain got ahold of one little twist in the conversation, and then drifted off to a little incident and then... Like, when...
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