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PuzzleNation Blog Looks Back on 2021!

In today's blog post, we look back at the year in puzzles (and PuzzleNation)!

2021 is rapidly coming to a close. As we do every year, we look back on another eventful year in the world of puzzles and games. And we are incredibly proud of the contributions both PuzzleNation Blog and PuzzleNation made to the puzzle community as a whole. Over the last year, we explored board games and card games, strategy games and trivia games, dice games and tile games, do-it-yourself…

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Counting Down the Hours With Some Holiday Trivia!

In today's blog post, we've got some holiday trivia for you to count down the hours until Christmas Day with!

As you well know, fellow puzzlers and PuzzleNationers, we usually post a puzzle to celebrate a given holiday. But last year we started a new holiday tradition and offered you some trivia to help count down the hours until Christmas Day! So this year, we’re doing it again. That’s right, twelve questions on holiday pop culture from around the world. How does that sound? Feel free to cherry-pick…

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A Puzzle for Thanksgiving!

In today's blog post, we've got a puzzle for you to solve in celebration of Thanksgiving!

Today is a day for celebrating with family and friends, and giving thanks for all the good things in our lives. We here at PuzzleNation want to thank you, our fellow puzzlers and PuzzleNationers, because you help make PuzzleNation one of the greatest puzzle communities in the world. And when it comes to saying thanks, a Thanksgiving puzzle seems like the perfect offering. So we’ve cooked up a…

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PuzzleNation's 2021 Holiday Puzzly Gift Guide!

It's this year's edition of the Holiday Puzzly Gift Guide! Loaded with dozens of puzzles, puzzle books, games, and more!

Happy Holidays and welcome to the PuzzleNation Blog 2021 Holiday Puzzly Gift Guide! Each year, we scour the world of puzzles and games for the best, the most engaging, the most creative, and the most enjoyable products we can find, and we think this year’s collection is the best we’ve ever had! We’ve got three different versions of the Gift Guide for your perusal, each of them absolutely loaded…

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Portal 2 Celebrates 10 Years with Time Travel!

In today's blog post, we discuss the tenth anniversary of Portal 2 and the recent release of Portal Reloaded!

Last week, one of the most iconic puzzle games in the history of video games turned ten years old. Portal 2 is the beloved sequel to the groundbreaking (and mind-bending) game about a gun that creates portals through which you can leap, fall, and maneuver your way past increasingly complex puzzles and locked rooms. You can make portals — blue or orange, one to enter, the other to exit — with the…

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Scrabble Removes 400 Offensive Words (and Tournament Players Are Freaking Out)

In today's blog post, we discuss Scrabble removing 400 offensive terms from the accepted list (and how some people are freaking out about it)!

Pretty much everyone has at least one Scrabble friend. You know, that person who just destroys all comers by placing unlikely words and unexpected additions, snagging every last available point each turn. I have two such friends, and their rivalry was so legendary that, during one particularly high-stakes game, the loser would have to write and perform a song celebrating the Scrabble supremacy of…

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Squirreling Away Puzzle-Solving Skills?

In today's blog post, we discuss whether squirrels are the crafty puzzle solvers they appear to be!

[Image courtesy of Southern Highland Guild.] It was less than two months ago that we discussed whether the problem-solving puzzly skills of pigs were enough to grant them membership in the puzzle-solving creatures club, alongside cats, dogs, crows, cockatoos, octopuses, and bees. As it turns out, scientists have been studying “can animal x solve puzzles?” for longer than I thought. One academic…

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Monopoly Opens Up the Community Chest to the Community!

In today's blog post, we discuss Monopoly updating their Community Chest cards with the help of the Internet!

Monopoly has been around for more than 80 years, and over the decades, they’ve made all sorts of attempts to modernize or update the product. They’ve ditched paper money for electronic banking and credit cards, they’ve utilized motion sensors, and even released Millennial, political, and cheaters’ editions in the hopes of freshening up the game. This time around, they’re asking for the public’s…

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