Tag: Puzzles and quizzes
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The lost quiz
I want you to cast your mind back to the spring of 2020. Your mind will undoubtedly protest, insisting that no good can possibly come of this, but you should coerce it to go…
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Welcome to the London Borough of…, the quiz
I’m still on reduced writing power this week, so here’s a quiz for you. It’s three weeks since the last instalment of my three-weekly series in which I described my journey taking pictures of…
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What’s wrong with diagonal thinking, anyway?
Last week, we were talking about “lateral thinking” puzzles, taking a board game called Brain Strain as a jumping-off point. But it wasn’t my first encounter with them, which is probably the reason I…
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I’m getting more open-hearted
CN: Capital punishment (yes, really) Recently, I managed to track down a review of another product by Octogo Games Ltd. The game was called Where on Earth, and the review was in the December…
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A quiz on the cards
I’m not sure how I stumbled into board game reviews being a regular feature of this blog that was once about travel in the southern midlands of England, but here we are. I had…
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Cryptic snowcrossword
Back in 2021, I made a cryptic crossword for this blog. It didn’t go super well: It turns out that the intersection of amateur bloggers and amateur crossword writers is, essentially, me. So there’s…
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Cryptic crossword
I had a big idea for this post. It was going to be an interactive crossword, embedded in the post that you could fill in right here. I made the crossword, with a vague travel…
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Quiz of the year
I thought my last post would be the last one of 2020, which is why I finished it with a Christmas greeting. But I had a lone weekend without the need to do thesis…
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Quiz: emoji book titles
I completely forgot that I’m doing this blog again, so I haven’t prepared a post for today. I’ve spent the whole day playing Animal Crossing instead of writing it. I want to say it…
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Quiz of the year
We’re still in the festive period, so what better way to celebrate than with a quiz? And what’s even better than a quiz? A quiz with a prize, of course! I’ll put some full…