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February 2026

Ever since I saw one for the first time, I thought the Rows Garden crossword variant was really cool, but also sort of tedious. With the NYT mini crossword (the only one I really tried) becoming subscriber only, I realized I can make my own mini crossword, and revist the alternative format I liked! I actually did quite a bit of research on existing Rows Garden players (and even bought an app), and I had some serious issues with some of the ways they engage, so I hope all of that is resolved with my version. There are still some pending updates in the future (settings to customize behavior rather than just the way I like playing), but this should be a solid new weekly addition!

End of 2025

Continuing on the game idea trend, my first logic puzzle, Lanterns is now available! This is a variation of "Light Up" (also known as Akari) but not close enough where they work the same! This game is starting in the Wednesday slot, but may become promted to daily if I find them easy to generate.

I also have a few End of year blog posts coming out just before the New Year, recapping many of things I tried this year, both successful and otherwise, and also laying out some goals both for myself and the site coming into 2026!

December 2025

The reversed version of Pareamid is now in the weekly rotation as well! I find this variation to be much more challenging, so I've put it on Friday, and assigned the normal one to Monday, but there isn't really a difficulty progression, it's more to keep similar games spread out.

What do I mean by that? I have decided to try and reach the point of seven weekly games (and at least the daily Cryptex), each releasing on a different day of the week, by the end of 2026! More on that in my new year entry, with hopefully the fourth of seven games as well!

October 2025

Pareamid is now a weekly game, but there's a handful available already to start from the Early Access period! I think if my full time job was coming up with puzzles I could do it daily, but alas, that is not the case

Weirdly in the past month I have heard from various recruiters that someone who is NOT me is trying to pass off my website, LinkedIn, and github with a modified resume for job interviews? I'm a little flattered, but mostly confused how that helps the person at all, since you know... they are not me and even if they pass the job interviews none of their official documents would be correct? Anyway, if you are the person doing this, I do not believe it will help you in any capacity, other than waste the time many people, but you made me add a disclaimer on all of my pages, so thanks for that I guess. I do also occasionally mentor folks entering the CS/Engineering job markets, so perhaps you could have just asked for assistance rather than tried to impersonate?

September 2025

I'm going to say this game is in "Early Access". I think it can definitely be a daily game, but I am not certain I want to commit to that yet. If you want to play it, let me know any thoughts!

July 2025

For several weeks earlier this year I was captivated by the game Blue Prince, a first-person puzzle roguelite with incredible charm and cohesiveness. This latest puzzle is a tribute using mechanics found in the normal progression of the game.

June 2025

With the solution to #Enigmarch 2025, all puzzles have solutions once again! Unfortunately there was a pretty big error in the construction of that puzzle, so it was only just now corrected. Apologies to anyone who attempted it in the past 2.5 months.

Additionally, I have created a landing page for games! I've been trying to make some fun daily and weekly NYT-style games for Kathy, and decided to commit keeping it going long-term!

March 2025

Happy #Enigmarch! Each day I'll be adding a new puzzle from the inspirational prompts posted on the Enigmarch website.

Over the past several months there are many new recipes on Dumpling Academy, as well as a lot of new things in the works (one of which you can preview with this Month's #Enigmarch content!).

September 2024

Updates to many Legacy and Commander Magic Decks, and the remaining 6 puzzle solutions from #Enigmarch 2024! With that, all puzzle solutions are now available on the site! 🎉

Next planned updates:

  • Overall puzzle statistics page (per-puzzle stats continue to live on the solution guide)
  • Legacy deck guidance for the remaining 11 decks of the Battlebox.
  • More blogposts! I am thinking of putting out a few in December focused on 2024 in retrospective.
  • New Recipes / updates to Dumpling Academy
  • Investigating infrastructure enhancements so that dynamic content (e.g. blogs, puzzle answers, magic decks) load quicker if they haven't been updated.
  • Perhaps something new...?

There isn't a planned time for all of these items, nor a specified order, but wanted to give an update as it has been a few months!

May 2024

Eight more solutions for #Enigmarch 2024 are now available, hoping to add the final six in June, before some travel for the year!

April 2024

While I was hoping to get solutions for all of this year's puzzles up this month, I did finally get through all of 2023's, and about half of 2024. Take a look if you don't mind spoilers!

March 2024

Happy #Enigmarch! Each day I'll be adding a new puzzle from the inspirational prompts posted on the Enigmarch website.

Additionally the solution for the corresponding day will be added to #Enigmarch 2023!

February 29, 2024

Continuing our magic mood one month more! A new commander deck (K'rrik), and a re-imagining of the colorless deck as ideas had stalled.

January 28, 2024

End of the month update, 6 new puzzle solutions! I am currently planning to release the solutions for each day of #Enigmarch 2023 with the puzzle for this years challenge. If I can stick to that plan, almost every puzzle on the site will have a solution available!

January 15, 2024

Continuing our magic mood going coming into 2024, A new commander deck (shrines) and new legacy deck (initiative) appear along with a finalization of the long "under construction" Windgrace.

Additionally, I'm continuing the slow-burn of releasing puzzle answers with one more! I have released many music-themed puzzles, but this one was one of the first where I really loved the idea, and tried to force it to work. If you never tried solving it and have no interest, check out the solution and see if you would have found it interesting!

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