Puzzles, Games, Trivia, Etc.

I adore crossword puzzles, Mental Floss, Jeopardy and Sporcle. Facts, trivia, and general knowledge will always be what drives me on any given day. My brain endlessly likes being teased, haha.

Anybody else like that around? If so, this is home for you now. Please, let's all share our favorite puzzles and games, talk about cool random facts and whatnot.

 

I just found out the other day through a sweet Ken Burns doc that the term 'teetotaler' came about from a movement called Total Abstinence during the prohibition era. They just duplicated the T sound. Thought that was kind of cool.

 

I also really have been loving playing Set on the NYT website lately.

http://www.nytimes.com/crosswords/game/set/

 

I'm obsessed with number related games. Sudoku, minesweeper, etc. I need more in my life.

 

Okay this is now consuming my night

 

Sudoku is fun I play it on my phone when I'm out in public with nothin to do. Physics problems are great puzzles.

 

this is a fun puzzle. went viral a year or so ago.

 

Is it July 16?

 

yup!

 

Wooooo I did it right! Hahaha

 

I like Sudoku and Crosswords of course. I've also been playing a mobile game called Alphabear, which is about spelling words with a given set of letters.

 

We used to play this in college (with the actual cards) where you have to find them as fast as possible, and there'd always be that one friend who grabbed the sets immediately before anyone else could even process what cards were there. The games got very heated. We were also usually drinking, so.

 

I do the USA Today Crossword puzzle everyday.

 

Love this game but I don't have a lot of strategy once I'm out of corners.

 

I know a bit of strategy but not a ton haha, I know 121s and some gap strategies

 

Forgot about 121. Yeah, I can get through a lot of games but my overall percentage is probably 50%.

 

Holy shit. My win percentage is only 11% lol. I'm going to credit a lot of that to the games I played before I understood the game.

 

Anybody play any board games? Because these are must-own games for anybody who likes tabletop gaming. The accessibility of party games but with really clever, tough premises.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00363B5FC/?tag=absolutepunk-20

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B014Q1XX9S/?tag=absolutepunk-20

 

I wish I knew people who were fans of board games.

 

Here's a really fun trivia question:

How many total candles are lit during the eight days of Hanukkah?

 

Come join us! Tabletop Games

 

Same. No point getting into them if I have no one to play with

 

I bought a Monopoly app because that's the only way I could play it. Makes me laugh now when I think about it.

 

Played Codenames a few months ago, really fun.

 

What's great about that concept is you can totally just cut up some paper, choose words, make a grid and do it yourself. Doesn't work quite as well but it gets the point across.