There are a lot of steps that go into producing Puzzled Pint across 25 locations every month. When it was just Portland, organizing the event could be somewhat ad hoc. Adding Seattle added more communication and process. Running Puzzled Pint in dozens of locations has helped refine and streamline that process. We’ve come a long […]
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Average Team Purchases by City
Recently the Puzzled Pint Game Control groups across several cities have had behind-the-scenes discussions about bar booking strategies. As the number of attendees increases, it becomes increasingly more difficult to find friendly and compatible bars. A few cities have dealt with this by constantly using the same bar or cycling through two or three “home […]
Playing the long game, er, puzzle
We have occasionally had players muse that it would be fun to trickle out a “long game” sort of puzzle via team name in the monthly Puzzled Pint standings over the course of many months. To my knowledge, we now have our first standings-based puzzle. There is a team of players in Portland that, since October, […]
Puzzled Pint & Social Interactions
We bill Puzzled Pint as a friendly, social, puzzle-solving event that’s geared toward newbies. The truth is that Puzzled Pint is slightly less social than we make it out to be…
DASH 7 is happening soon!
Puzzled Pint was founded nearly 5 years ago and DASH was a strong inspiration for the founders… If you attend Puzzled Pint, you should try DASH. It’s on May 30th, but registration closes soon.
Portland Survey, 2015
In addition to the Question of the Month on your answer sheets, cities occasionally use local questionnaires to learn about attendees. It’s been a year or two since we had one in Portland so we thought it was time to collect a little more data. We handed out double-sided quarter-sheet surveys, one to each attendee, […]
Welcome to the blog!
Welcome to the first post of the Puzzled Pint blog. The hope here is to have an informal place to talk about Puzzled Pint, share with you the Question of the Month responses (yes, we have all of them, we’ve just never really published the results), and have discussions — a place without the 140-character […]