It’s Follow-Up Friday: The Future! edition

Welcome to Follow-Up Friday!

For those new to PuzzleNation Blog, Follow-Up Friday is a chance for us to revisit the subjects of previous posts and update the PuzzleNation audience on how these projects are doing and what these people have been up to in the meantime.

For today’s Follow-Up Friday post, I thought I’d do a bit of Follow-Ahead Friday by alerting my fellow puzzlers to all the joyous shenanigans afoot this weekend.

The Baffledazzle Kickstarter wraps up this weekend, and Rachel has met her goal of $12,000, thanks in part to the marvelous puzzlers in the PuzzleNation readership! Congratulations, Rachel! I can’t wait to see the final tally and the gorgeous puzzles you’ll be producing soon!

Plus, the Kentucky Derby returns today — if you couldn’t tell from our Wordplay Wednesday post — AND this Saturday is Free Comic Book Day! Check out participating comic book shops near you for more details!

As if that wasn’t enough, Sunday is Star Wars Day! (May the Fourth Be With You!) We’ll be doing some Star Wars Day picture posting across our Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Facebook accounts for the occasion, so keep your eyes peeled!

Finally, for the block-happy puzzlers out there, there’s the Sunday night premiere of The Simpsons’ LEGO Spectacular, an episode dedicated to everyone’s favorite building toy!

So much for puzzle lovers to enjoy this weekend!

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Dangerous and disturbing this puzzle is.

I couldn’t resist, it’s the only line in all six Star Wars movies that uses the word “puzzle,” and it’s a Yoda quote to boot!

Greetings, my fellow puzzlers! It’s Star Wars Day, and we here at PuzzleNation simply had to join in the festivities, so we’ve got two Star Wars themed puzzles for your enjoyment!

The first is a standard cryptogram of one of the series’ most famous quotations. This should be an easy one for crypto-fans and Star Wars devotees alike!

UOKOXJH LOKCSZ, POJXW JUC PCB WOXEOT IP VJFGOX ZK FGO MHCKO QJXW. KCQ GO SOUW PCB FC GOHD GZI ZK GZW WFXBUUHO JUJZKWF FGO OIDZXO. Z XOUXOF FGJF Z JI BKJSHO FC MCKEOP IP VJFGOX’W XORBOWF FC PCB ZK DOXWCK, SBF IP WGZD GJW VJHHOK BKTOX JFFJML, JKT Z’I JVXJZT IP IZWWZCK FC SXZKU PCB FC JHTOXJJK GJW VJZHOT. Z GJEO DHJMOT ZKVCXIJFZCK EZFJH FC FGO WBXEZEJH CV FGO XOSOHHZCK ZKFC FGO IOICXP WPWFOIW CV FGZW X2 BKZF. IP VJFGOX QZHH LKCQ GCQ FC XOFXZOEO ZF. PCB IBWF WOO FGZW TXCZT WJVOHP TOHZEOXOT FC GZI CK JHTOXJJK. FGZW ZW CBX ICWF TOWDOXJFO GCBX. GOHD IO, CSZ-QJK LOKCSZ. PCB’XO IP CKHP GCDO.

And the second is a Word Seek featuring characters from all six films (plus Ahsoka from the Clone Wars TV show). The entries in all caps are hidden within the grid, and once you’ve found them all, you’ll reveal a concealed message spelled out by the remaining letters!

AAYLA Secura
Admiral ACKBAR
AHSOKA Tano
ANAKIN
BAIL ORGANA
BEN KENOBI
Aunt BERU
BIGGS
BOBA FETT
BREN Derlin
CHEWBACCA
DARTH Vader
DENGAR
Jan DODONNA
Count DOOKU
EMPEROR
GREEDO
General GRIEVOUS
HAN SOLO
JABBA the Hutt
JANGO Fett
KIT FISTO
LANDO
LEIA
LUKE
LUMINARA Unduli
Darth MAUL
MAX REBO
MON MOTHMA
MOTTI
NEEDA
OBI-WAN
Uncle OWEN
OZZEL
PADME
PALPATINE
PIETT
QUI-GON
RANCOR
RIEEKAN
SHAAK TI
SIDIOUS
SKYWALKER
TARKIN
VEERS
WEDGE Antilles
WICKET
Mace WINDU
YODA

Good luck, and May the Fourth Be With You, puzzle Jedi!