2025 Snowflake Challenge: Day 14: Puzzle Time

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Challenge #14

In your own space, create your own fandom challenge.

Tomorrow [29 Jan] is National Puzzle Day in the US so I invite all puzzle lovers to indulge in the next 48 hours and comment below what kind of puzzles you like [including links if applicable, I will collect them].

Any kind of puzzle is welcome: wordle, jigsaw puzzles, riddles, mazes, crossword puzzles, codes and ciphers, escape rooms, organized sophisticated puzzles like Cain's Jawbone or simple magic tricks.

Comments

[spiralsheep]

Sometimes my friends and/or their kids drag me out geocaching* with them and we've found an amazing variety of fun puzzles and puzzle boxes. There are some that are so much fun everybody wants a turn, such as the pinball puzzle box, and some so frustrating that they enrage people temporarily, such as a fiendish math code unexpectedly encountered in the middle of an open field, lol.

* I like the walks but am not as keen on the treasure hunting as they are.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

OH, interesting. I am not knowledgeable at all about how geocaching works. Sort of like the treasure hunt equivalent to escape rooms. But it sounds fun. I would like it, I think.

[spiralsheep]

There's a free phone app, I think? With relatively simple box locations to walk to, but the more complicated puzzles are usually only available to paid members (mostly to stop them being easy to find and vandalise). Anyway, I don't know much about it either, except it's a treasure hunt for walkers and people can pick and choose their own variations on the game.