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In today's blog post, we've got some punny costumes for you to figure out just before Halloween!

Happy Halloween, puzzlers and PuzzleNationers! One of the best things about Halloween is guessing what people’s costumes are. Clever costumes can be great fun, and I’m a huge fan of costumes that only cost a few bucks to put together, because they really let your creativity shine through. Punny costumes lend themselves to the low-budget costume genre brilliantly. So it’s only appropriate that we…

In today's blog post, we discuss puzzly places, including England's mysterious Puzzlewood!

We talk about puzzly things all time. We discuss puzzly moments from history, puzzly events happening now, and the many ways puzzles are represented in modern life, both obviously and less so. But it recently occurred to me that we rarely talk about puzzly places. There are escape rooms and board game cafes, puzzle hunts that span cities and college campuses, corn mazes lovingly cultivated every…

In today's blog post, we discuss the discovery of a puzzly artifact from World War II!

We’ve talked quite a bit about the importance of Enigma machines in the past. The quest to crack the unbreakable Nazi code machine spanned the Atlantic Ocean and resulted in never-before-seen collaborations between analysts, codebreakers, and puzzlers from all walks of life, dedicating hours upon hours every day to trying to unravel the secrets of German communications. Cracking the code would be…

In today's blog post, we recommend some games in case you're looking for a mellow, relaxing game night!

The world can be a very stressful place. We live under a constant deluge of news and information, and it’s so easy to get overwhelmed by it all. And while games can be a wonderful escape, you need the right games to restore your spirits and put you in a good mood.

As much fun as co-op games like Forbidden Island, The Oregon Trail Card Game, and Castle Panic! can be, they can also be a little…

In today's blog post, we go head-to-head with Deblockle, a Project Genius game where two players must roll and plot their puzzly way to victory!

[Note: I received a free copy of this game in exchange for a fair, unbiased review. Due diligence, full disclosure, and all that.]

Chess, checkers, backgammon, Go, Othello… all of the classic board games rely upon the idea that both players know how the pieces can and will move from round to round. That way, they can strategize, they can prepare defenses, they can circumnavigate your attempts to…

In today's blog post, we look back at the year in puzzles (and PuzzleNation)!

2021 is rapidly coming to a close. As we do every year, we look back on another eventful year in the world of puzzles and games. And we are incredibly proud of the contributions both PuzzleNation Blog and PuzzleNation made to the puzzle community as a whole. Over the last year, we explored board games and card games, strategy games and trivia games, dice games and tile games, do-it-yourself…

In today's blog post, we've got some holiday trivia for you to count down the hours until Christmas Day with!

As you well know, fellow puzzlers and PuzzleNationers, we usually post a puzzle to celebrate a given holiday. But last year we started a new holiday tradition and offered you some trivia to help count down the hours until Christmas Day! So this year, we’re doing it again. That’s right, twelve questions on holiday pop culture from around the world. How does that sound? Feel free to cherry-pick…

In today's blog post, we've got a puzzle for you to solve in celebration of Thanksgiving!

Today is a day for celebrating with family and friends, and giving thanks for all the good things in our lives. We here at PuzzleNation want to thank you, our fellow puzzlers and PuzzleNationers, because you help make PuzzleNation one of the greatest puzzle communities in the world. And when it comes to saying thanks, a Thanksgiving puzzle seems like the perfect offering. So we’ve cooked up a…