preinheimer,
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If you're considering attending a Puzzled Pint this month (/cc @ramsey @sean) the location puzzle is up, you'll need to solve it to find out where to go. (well, not actually, you can skip it, but it's good practice!). Google is a valid tool to use.

https://puzzledpint.com/events/march-2024/#location-intro

Your local event will exist somewhere on the "RSVP absolutely required" to "no RSVP needed, just show up" continuum.

When you go to the actual event bring: pen, pencil, good eraser, scissors, tape, ruler.

Good luck!

shiflett,
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@preinheimer @ramsey @sean I’m going to make a coffee and print this out. Partly because I like puzzles, but mostly because I want to see how a single answer can reveal the location to people living in different places.

shiflett,
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@preinheimer @ramsey @sean Oh, I get it. I thought the answer would be a location somehow, not just the answer to the joke.

preinheimer,
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@shiflett @ramsey @sean Like XKCD Geohashing!

https://xkcd.com/426/

If you're looking for a tricky one to work through I /really/ enjoyed this one from last month.

https://puzzledpint.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/AfternoonTea_MainSet2.pdf

shiflett,
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@preinheimer @ramsey @sean Printing now. I bet my (oldest) daughter would like this one.

sean, (edited )
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@shiflett @preinheimer @ramsey This took me longer than it should have, but I got it. (Didn’t use hints.)

shiflett,
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@sean @preinheimer @ramsey I got the answer, but I could not complete the grid. Am I missing something, or are these last three squares ambiguous? (Spoiler alert.) https://shifle.tt/1rw6fXWiqU.pdf

shiflett,
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@sean @preinheimer @ramsey Maybe it’s that / in those three would violate the third rule, so they must all be \ instead? I didn’t quite understand that rule and interpreted it as “don’t make a square” in some places to make progress.

sean,
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@shiflett @preinheimer @ramsey I did March 2024. I think (URL is confusing). Closed this one before I saw the spoilers. (-: (This is the March 2024 puzzle, no spoilers: https://puzzledpint.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Mathematics_Location.pdf )

sean,
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@shiflett @ramsey (hadn’t followed @preinheimer ’s link to the previous month. I see what happened now. (-: )

ramsey,
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@preinheimer @sean When I first looked at this puzzle, I thought, “Uh oh. This is going to be hard,” since I’m neither good at jokes or puns, but then the clue clicked, and the rest of it fell into place after that.

I feel quite proud of myself! 🤓

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