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Upcoming game projects exciting me right now
1) As previously hinted at, the DASH puzzle hunt is coming to London this year. This will be the fifth annual-ish occurrence of DASH, whose full title - Different Areas, Same Hunt - neatly explains the premise. One big problem with real-world puzzle hunts is that they only take place in one location; DASH runs the same hunt in lots of different ( Read more... ) -
Red hot recommendations
Nothing too exciting going on here. UK readers may have heard that our town has been one of many recently badly affected by relatively heavy rainfall; we happen to be OK, but this news story has a photo that we think was of a road about 250 metres south of here - but, more importantly, about ten or so metres lower in elevation. For those who know ( Read more... ) -
The games between the games and the games - plus: puzzles!
The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park may be taking a breather between the two halves of its summer of sport, but in between are two independent attempts to be a counterpart for mental activities rather than physical ones.
The second World Mind Sports Games is taking place - techncially, just about to conclude - in Lille, France; like the first one, it ( Read more... ) -
From games presently in London to games coming to London
DASH - Different Area, Same Hunt - is a puzzle hunt that is run identically, or at least similarly, in puzzle-hunt-heavy locations across the US. There have been four so far, and with the three most recent ones being in the three most recent Aprils; while there hasn't been a date announced for the fifth iteration, I'm guessin' at late April 2013, ( Read more... ) -
The Olympic Games so far
The Olympics are always one of the highlights of my - er - Olympiad (OK, "quadrennium") and so far, despite the lack relative paucity of gold for Great Britain (not forgetting our representatives from Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and quite possibly the Channel Islands) the whole event has exceeded my expectations. I won't claim that things ( Read more... ) -
Seven prompts or five questions
Comment to this post, and I will list seven things I want you to talk about. They might make sense or they might be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.
Please bear in mind that it has taken me four months to reply to huskyteer's fun prompts. ( Read more... ) -
The Big Scratch
In May, Camelot, the operators of the UK National Lottery, inaugurated an instant-win scratchcard at higher stakes than they had ever offered before. Previously, the highest-stakes scratchcard in the UK cost five pounds sterling; most five-pound games have top prizes of one million pounds, though the first five-pound game in 2003 had a small number ( Read more... ) -
From online puzzle leagues to online quiz leagues
As discussed in my last post (edit: last-but-one post), there are now separate Northern UK and Southern UK teams for the forthcoming Croco-League online puzzle league. UK readers, both teams have vacancies if this is of interest at all; sign up according to whether you feel Northern or not. The Czech and Austrian teams look very strong, as do some ( Read more... ) -
It's the biggest one yet!
I'm part-way through writing another post (well, I'm part-way through many other posts) but this one interrupts all of them as it's timely.
A particularly interesting tournament has been taking place at the World Series of Poker for the last two days, and it's due to reach a conclusion today. Forty-eight players started the Big One for One Drop, ( Read more... ) -
Coming later this year to the world of puzzles: the Croco-League
If anyone has e-mailed me since June 18th, I have just accidentally deleted your mail without looking at it. Sorry about that; please mail me again. (And what a world we live in where we tell each other about such mishaps this way ( Read more... )