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As I wrap up my second year of Ambassadorialness, I’m realizing that I have a lot to be thankful for both in my real life and my puzzling life (as if they can be separated!). And much like a Tofurky and lentil Thanksgiving feast, I’d like to share these things with you. So, let’s tuck in.
First off, I’m thankful that my food does not have faces...CONTINUE READING
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Hello there! Last month while meticulously researching my post for National Dog Day, I noticed there were so many puzzles depicting dogs in the bathroom and, honestly, bathrooms in general that they might warrant their own post.
You might think the things we do in the bathroom are a bit, uh, personal. But is it any more personal than riding a unillama while eating handhelds in rainbow space? So, fair warning: bathrooms ahead. And not just any bathrooms. Puzzle bathrooms...CONTINUE READING
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Hello there! When I was asked to write a post for National Dog Day (that’s a thing we do!), I wasn’t confident I was the best person to write about dogs. I have never had a dog, though I have seen them at dinner parties and, perhaps because of my petite stature, I’m the perfect height for large dogs that just met me to jump up and accidentally breathe into my mouth...CONTINUE READING
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Hello there! Last year, I wrote about building (more like mildly altering and refinishing an old wood file cabinet to become) a Hobbit- and Lord-of-the-Rings-themed neighborhood puzzle library. I built a window into the front, woodburned J.R.R. Tolkien quotes around the library, and waterproofed it (I thought). ...CONTINUE READING
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Hello there! Since last time we hung out, Mr. Ambassador’s mom passed away, and a lot of things I thought I would be doing at the time did not get done. For example: having a Mother’s Day that didn’t include sobbing into a bath towel or writing last month’s blog post. But somehow the days around us have moved into early summer and that peculiar zombiefog is blending into the more familiar zombiefog of busy ball schedules and mildly creative side projects...CONTINUE READING
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Hello there! I’ve been acquiring quite a few puzzles to prepare for the USA JPA Nationals, so I’ve been spending extra time on the Warehouse website. I’m noticing several puzzles that take an organic subject matter and present it in a geometric way. Just follow me down this hexagonal rabbit hole for a moment, since this appeals to my general desire to create order out of chaos, and from the perspective of a puzzler, it’s more than a bit meta. These puzzles take a subject matter that is natural, wild, and free, and constrain it to a rigid, human-made aesthetic. Or for those of you who grew up in the 80s: some puzzles put Baby in a corner...CONTINUE READING
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Hello there! Welcome to the Spring 2024 edition of “What’s Wrong With This Puzzle?”
Here in the land of ice and snow, there’s been so little of either that one can barely notice the mild winter oozing into the start of spring. But the calendar tells me it’s coming. Soon the birds will wake me way too early with incessant tweeting and the rabbits and I will startle each other in the garden until one of us dashes under the deck in terror, leaving behind only the satisfying thud of a little head knocking against lattice...CONTINUE READING
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Hello there! We’ve taken one whole trip around the sun together since I started this Puzzle Ambassador gig, so I feel like we know each other well enough that I can share my art projects with you. Don’t worry, I won’t send my clippings, just art projects.
When I’m not busy Googling myself, I occasionally search the Puzzle Warehouse website for my own design, a PuzzleTwist puzzle called Intentional Kindness. And I was delighted to find it available a couple of months ago...CONTINUE READING
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Hello there! It’s that time of year when snow starts to blanket older, grayer snow and evolution earns a big thumbs-down as citrus season conveniently collides with chapped-lip season. It’s the time when bakers everywhere hole up in the kitchen to create their holiday masterpieces to share with family and friends, a messy process that we do in private so as to not frighten those who will later be putting the treats into their mouths...CONTINUE READING
