If you are a Puzzled Pint regular, you may have noticed that the website has gotten a little facelift. Let’s talk about how that helps you and simplifies things for us.
The Blog
Portland Survey, 2023
Back in ye olden days of 2015, the Portland Puzzled Pint Game Control put together a small survey. We wanted to collect demographics, suggestions, and threw a couple of fun questions in there. It was really fun and interesting, but it’s been 8 years. It needed an update. I made some tweaks to the questions […]
Puzzled Pint’s Shiny New Code of Conduct
Hi friends. I just wanted to write a quick note sharing that Puzzled Pint now has an official Code of Conduct. We previously had a private one, moderating online communication between Game Control members, but thought that as Puzzled Pint continues to grow (we reached over 3500 players this month!), we should have one that […]
Review: The Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book
It’s not often that Puzzled Pint receives a product to review. In fact, this marks the first time we’ve ever been sent a book to review! Today I’ll be examining The Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book [Amazon UK/ Amazon US ]. Slipping the book from its mailer, I could instantly see its amazing production quality. It […]
DASH 11
You probably know this, but we strive to make Puzzled Pint a beginner-friendly event. Our charter is to to grow awareness of puzzle events, which we partially achieve by running Puzzled Pint every month. We see PP as a stepping-stone to more advanced events such as BANGs, MIT Mystery Hunt, and weekend-games. But informally, since […]
Rating System Feedback
tl;dr People mostly like the star difficulty rating system, so we’re keeping it. You might have noticed that we’ve been experimenting with adding difficulty rating to puzzles. I brought this notion to Puzzled Pint HQ last year because some teams in Austin kept asking which puzzles were the “easy” ones. Looking further into this, it became […]