Earlier this week, Puzzled Pint Portland was invited to participate in OMSI After Dark, an adults-only nighttime event at a local science museum. The theme was “forensics.” We pulled some thematic puzzles from past months to reprint, and also brought along some surplus copies we had on hand to show people what we’re all about.
We’re set up next to the Planetarium @OMSI – stop by and say hello! pic.twitter.com/EWzIBxoy0F
— PuzzledPint Portland (@PuzzPintPDX) April 28, 2016
There was quite a bit of interest! We started with 100 copies of Brian Enigma’s “What is Puzzled Pint?” info sheet, and ran out of those less than halfway through the evening. OMSI was kind enough to reprint those, as well as more copies of the three featured puzzles:
- Tom and Cathy Saxton’s “Suspicious Call” location puzzle from January 2016
- Richard Malena’s “Many and Mysterious Plots of Portlandia” from July 2015
- Brian Kelly Hahn’s “Grid” from October 2015
Brian Hahn himself was on hand to help us tell people about Puzzled Pint, as were regular GCs Matt Shields, Jen Dumont, and yours truly.
Tell us how this puzzle thing works @digitaluddite @DysClaimer ! #omsi pic.twitter.com/7ZyYcMUKCq
— PuzzledPint Portland (@PuzzPintPDX) April 28, 2016
It’s true, @JenoftheMT knows a lot about puzzles. #omsi pic.twitter.com/G0DMa6XxsQ
— PuzzledPint Portland (@PuzzPintPDX) April 28, 2016
As shown in these photos we tweeted, we also pulled out Brian Hahn’s “Paddles” from October 2015 and Andrea Blumberg’s March 2016 Comic Book Mystery as examples of different presentation formats. We’re extremely grateful to all our volunteer puzzle authors who share their creativity with us!
If you were at OMSI After Dark on Wednesday and are looking for solutions to any of the above puzzles, here they are:
- SOLUTION for “Suspicious Call”
- SOLUTION for “The Many and Mysterious Plots of Portlandia”
- HINTS and SOLUTIONs for “Grid” and “Paddles”
- SOLUTIONS for Comic Book Mystery
Thanks @OMSI for a great #AfterDark event tonight! Hope to see some new puzzlers on May 10th. 🙂 pic.twitter.com/Lsx3VXfq4S
— PuzzledPint Portland (@PuzzPintPDX) April 28, 2016