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For our second child’s second birthday, we are celebrating with a dinosaur-themed party, so I wrote a dinosaur puzzle.

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Boda Borg Columbus - 2025

For those not familiar, the Alphabet Game is a classic road trip game, played by children before the invention of the iPad.

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For our older child’s fourth birthday, he asked for a theme of “A Rainbow of Funny Animals”, inspired by the magnetic mix-and-match animal toy shown above.

For our second child’s first birthday, we celebrated with a bee-themed party!

Life-size Tapple

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For our child’s second birthday, we celebrated with a bug-themed party!

Boda Borg Columbus - 2022

Lately I’ve been enjoying replaying through an iOS game that came out in 2015 called Super Sharp.

For our child’s first birthday, we celebrated with a fruit-themed party!

I was the author of the most recent Puzzled Pint set for July 2022.

Since Baba is You has a level editor, it seemed too good an opportunity to pass up making a version of Wordle in Baba is You.

As a follow-up to Wheredle, I’ve also created Whodle.

With the Wordle craze in full bloom, I’ve decided to add my own contribution, Wheredle.

Boda Borg Columbus - 2021

Apropos of nothing, here is a puzzle I wrote:

I’ve been playing around with Baba is You’s level editor, and decided to do a quarter-scale remake of Super Mario Bros World 1-1.

I made a Squid Game infographic showing the progress of the players across the Glass Stepping Stones throughout the episode.

I’ve been playing around with Baba is You’s level editor, and made a level set inspired by the show Squid Game.

What are all the keywords for the new Google Calendar Android app that will generate those beautiful images in the agenda view?

With the pandemic, it’s nice to have some ways to connect with friends and family online.

As a New Years Eve tradition, both last year and again this year, I have put on “Boda Borg Columbus” to serve as a “year-in-review” game, based on our fun experience at Boda Borg Boston.

As a house, we each carved our own pumpkin this year.

Our family has tradition of decorating the table for Thanksiving with fall leaves.

Following up on BotW painting-recreations, I also decided to go in for some meme-creation!

Following up on BotW painting-recreations and BotW memes, I’ve now recreated some famous movie scenes!

I’ve been enjoying playing the Switch game Breath of the Wild.

An outdoor Social Distancing activity some of my housemates and I have been enjoying recently has been to go on photo scavenger hunts around the neighborhood.

Interplanetary - A Scale Model of the Solar System

Each Spring for the past few years, a group of fairy doors has mysteriously appeared in one of our local parks in the same location.

When beginning Saga’s Start, a version of Genesis 1 using only words starting with S, I settled on S as it seemed like one of the easiest letters to do, and something I could accomplish using the tools I had on hand, rather than needing to create awesome…

11 So started saga: Supreme sentience shaped skies, secular sphere.

I’ve planted a new letterbox in Columbus!

Boda Borg

Hanabi is a cooperative firework-themed board game in which players collectively try to build five piles of cards representing five different colors of fireworks.

If half of all cars on the road drive 60 miles per hours, and the other half drive 70, then then each driver will encounter one of two scenarios:

A short story in which Admiral Tian Jerjerrod tackles the impossible task of building the second Death Star, written by Alexander Wales, read by Jim Hays.

What if a planet evolved distinct intelligent species with sensors designed for detecting non-overlapping portions of the electromagnetic spectrum as visible light?

I have a bit part playing the lead juror in Chapter 13: A Vast and Terrifying Enemy: part 2 of the audio production of The Metropolitan Man, produced by Eneasz Brodski.

I’m not the first person to interpret the Lord of the Rings with an emphasis on the post-apocalyptic nature.

A short story documenting a Lonely Photographer, written by Sam Hughes, read by Jim Hays

A short story about a super-intelligent AI and imminent danger for humanity, written by Sam Hughes, read by Jim Hays

We got to spend some time down at the beach yesterday, and built this sandcastle.

First there was xkcd’s Up Goer Five picture joke using only the ten Hundred words people say the most.

In English, the expression goes “It’s all Greek to me!”

This is a display of rotationally symmetric ambigrams I’ve designed for various occasions.