Here is the latest issue, one day early. Because we need more love in the world.
As always, puns and silliness abound. Fill your day with puzzles and your evening with, well, whatever you usually do on Feb. 14th.
Cheers,
Mitch
When I wrote Prompt Engineering For Puzzle Book Designers, prompt craft was a genuine skill gap for creators working with AI. Getting useful output required careful construction, specific syntax, and a lot of trial and error. The book addressed that directly. That gap has closed. Modern AI models—particularly the
Not too many people know this, but I write poetry. I love making rhymes that tell a story. I also enjoy "constructing" poems. This creative endeavor is not unlike constructing a puzzle. Both poetry and puzzles have goals. Poems seek to evoke emotion; puzzles seek to challenge reason.
I have to give a shout-out to actor Rob Lowe, whose character on Parks and Rec was infamous for saying, "Literally..." (video) This issue revisits some of my favorite wordplay topics: idioms. Idioms are fun to use in puzzles because many of them are so recognizable. If the
Puns, mondegreens, Tom Swifties, limericks, solage and dad jokes. I love them all. Each is a playful form of expression that hits the ha-ha center of my brain in just the right spot. But here's what I've noticed after years of playing with these forms: they&