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It’s Follow-Up Friday: LEG-OH NO WAY edition!

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Welcome to Follow-Up Friday!

By this time, you know the drill. Follow-Up Friday is a chance for us to revisit the subjects of previous posts and bring the PuzzleNation audience up to speed on all things puzzly.

It’s been quite a week here at PuzzleNation Blog!

After posts that ran the gamut from Comic-Con encryption puzzles and new puzzle sets for the Penny Dell Crosswords app to becoming a sharper Hangman or Guess Who? player and enjoying the puzzly chain reactions known as Rube Goldberg devices, I was left with quite a conundrum: How do I close out such an eclectic week?

This will be my sixth post in six days after all. What would be an appropriate capper?

Well, I think I found the perfect Friday post idea: some visual LEGO puzzle wizardry.

Specifically, it’s a moving piece of puzzle art that combines the visual wonder of the pop-up book with the puzzly skill of a LEGO master builder.

I give you the LEGO Pop-Up Himeji Castle:

I’ve watched the video over and over, and I have no idea how the castle fits together OR compresses itself flat enough to fit between the “covers.” This is mind-blowing LEGO skill and puzzly three-dimensional manipulation of space.

And apparently, this sort of next-level three-dimensional spatial reasoning is second-nature to YouTuber Talapz, since he also managed to create this multi-dimensional sculpture that allows a ball to traverse it in three different arrangements:

I first stumbled across Talapz’s works on this site (written in French, no less!), and quickly followed his work on his YouTube page. Be sure to click the link for more brain-melting works of puzzly LEGO art.

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New Puzzle Set for the Penny Dell Crosswords App!

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Hello puzzlers and PuzzleNationers!

Yes, I know, we already bombarded you with terrific new puzzle content on Monday, but the terrific puzzles just won’t stop! We’ve got a new puzzle set for your enjoyment!

That’s right! Just in time for the Fourth of July, we’ve got our July 2016 Deluxe Set! You get 30 easy, medium, and hard puzzles, plus 5 themed bonus puzzles!

And it’s available for both Android and iOS solvers! Puzzles for everyone!

Cue the fireworks!

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New Puzzle Sets for the Penny Dell Crosswords App!

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Hello puzzlers and PuzzleNationers!

That’s right, we’re starting off the week right with a bonus blog post loaded to the brim with exciting news!

We’ve got new puzzle sets available for both the Android AND iOS versions of the Penny Dell Crossword App!

For Android users, Collection Eleven is loaded with 150 puzzles (easy, medium, and hard varieties) to test your puzzly mettle and provide some terrifically satisfying solving!

And for iOS users, Collection Fifteen is ready to go with 155 puzzles of all difficulties to keep your solving skills sharp and your puzzly brain engaged for hours!

But that’s not all!

New to both iOS and Android, Deluxe Fun Set 5 is loaded with 30 easy, medium, and hard puzzles, plus 5 bonus puzzles! It’s the perfect puzzly start to a great summer!

We strive to provide the best mobile puzzle apps available, and these three collections continue that fine tradition! We’re talking dozens and dozens of puzzles across both platforms, right at your fingertips!

All this, plus a new edition of the PuzzleNation Newsletter just hit inboxes a few days ago! How can you go wrong?

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It’s Follow-Up Friday: Indie 500 edition!

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Welcome to Follow-Up Friday!

By this time, you know the drill. Follow-Up Friday is a chance for us to revisit the subjects of previous posts and bring the PuzzleNation audience up to speed on all things puzzly.

And today, I’d like to return to the subject of the Indie 500 crossword tournament!

Why, you ask? Because it’s tomorrow, June 4, and you still have time to register! Click here for all the details. You can compete in person in Washington, D.C., for just $30, or you can participate from home for only $10!

Not only that, but once again they’ve whipped up a meta-suite of puzzles to boot, and you name your own price for it!

This is the second year of the tournament, and I expect great things from the immensely talented team of constructors and directors they’ve assembled. With a prom theme, topnotch constructors, and pie (there’s always pie), you can’t go wrong!

Click here for the Indie 500 home page, here for an interview regarding this year’s event with constructor Andy Kravis, and here for a rundown of last year’s terrific puzzles!

Will you be competing? Or participating from home? Let us know in the comments below!

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New Puzzle Sets and Bundles for the Penny Dell Crosswords App!

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Hello puzzlers and PuzzleNationers!

That’s right, it’s a bonus blog post today because we’ve got some exciting news!

We’ve got new puzzle sets available for both the Android AND iOS versions of the Penny Dell Crossword App!

For Android users, Collection Eight is loaded with 150 puzzles (easy, medium, and hard varieties) to test your puzzly mettle and provide some terrifically satisfying solving!

And for iOS users, Collection Fourteen is ready to go with 155 puzzles of all difficulties to keep your solving skills sharp and your fingertips flying across the grid!

But that’s not all!

We’ve also got two jumbo puzzle bundles for our iOS users!

The Jumbo Bundle combines Jumbo Apps 1 and 2 into a 300 puzzle collection worthy of any crossword fan’s time! Complete with easy, medium, and hard puzzles, as well as our alternate clue feature, you can’t go wrong with the Jumbo Bundle!

But if that’s not enough to satisfy your puzzly cravings, don’t worry, we’ve got you covered!

That’s right, the Jumbo Value Bundle combines Jumbo Apps 1 and 2 with content from our recently released Jumbo App 3! That’s 450 puzzles awaiting you!

Talk about a puzzle extravaganza!

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It’s Follow-Up Friday: Subway Time Travel edition!

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Welcome to Follow-Up Friday!

By this time, you know the drill. Follow-Up Friday is a chance for us to revisit the subjects of previous posts and bring the PuzzleNation audience up to speed on all things puzzly.

And today, I’d like to return to the subject of puzzly events!

I’m a huge fan of events where puzzly-minded people get together and create something new. Whether it’s a festival of indie games or a Rube Goldberg machine about Passover, a prom-themed puzzle tournament or a crossword contest about a crossword contest, anything is possible when folks with a mind for puzzle fun collaborate.

The team at Improv Everywhere know this better than most, as they’ve put together some terrific live experiences to entertain unsuspecting strangers.

In the past, they’ve staged a repeating time loop at a coffee shop, recreated the opening of Star Wars on a subway, and (my personal favorite) made a cabbie the hero of a reunion right out of a romantic comedy.

This time around, they faked time travel with four sets of twins. Check it out!

You can explore the full details of the prank/performance here, as well as many other “missions” from their past, but sufficed to say, it took a fair amount of puzzly skills and improvisational style to pull this off!

I wonder what delightful trickery they’ll attempt next.

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