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"charming, handcrafted, fiendishly difficult puzzle games with a retro 8-bit feel": Lovingly Crafted Puzzle Games Since 2013, a passel of Puzzlescript, iOS and Android games to while away the hours, 8-bit at a time.
"charming, handcrafted, fiendishly difficult puzzle games with a retro 8-bit feel": Lovingly Crafted Puzzle Games Since 2013, a passel of Puzzlescript, iOS and Android games to while away the hours, 8-bit at a time.
"I already do Set, Wordle, Guess My Word, Worldle, and Spelling Bee ... Math, logic, word-based: I love them all. What else might I like?" DrGail asks Give me your daily puzzles!
In Ask Metafilter, unus sum says, "I'm looking for a longish video games to sink my teeth into. I find it nice to have a video game where I can solve interesting problems that don't actually matter as a way to relax..."
For aspiring cruciverbalists jcreigh fills in the blanks with info on developing, designing, writing, editing, constructing, and where to submit crosswords, plus where to find advice, communities, software, and blogs.
Wolfdog has posted the logic puzzle blog, Grandmaster Puzzles, featuring "elegant, hand-crafted designs written by some of the world's best puzzle constructors" ... and Mefites have some more recs in comments.
AskMe recommends movies, books and places that are bad, weird, or fun: Most obscure bad movies?
Tragic sad-ending movies, that you would willingly watch again?
Truly singular unique movies and tv shows?
Weirdest book in the history of English?
Places with unique events, festivals, attractions?
Normally-bustling places that have predictable moments when they're totally deserted?
I heard a story on This American Life ... about a sausage maker who inadvertently ruins their product by getting a new building. In the end, it turned out the problem was they had shortened the route of the final delivery of the sausages and removed what was thought to be the unimportant work of a clerk named Irving. I thought it was fascinating and I want to find other stories like that. Where would I look for them?
rileyray3000, ISO real life food mysteries.
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