jbumđź–ŤCover and a select few pages from my forthcoming variety puzzle book. Should be available to order by this weekend.
Auntie Denier@jbum hey hi!! I came here for your raven post and now see that you are a puzzler and what’s more, that you are *The* krazydad—I’ve printed your puzzles out before, years back. V excited to support you by getting your book!
I am a #numberpuzzle enthusiast who once subscribed to a magazine from Japan (Nikoli I think) to my US home. I then found and stockpiled a uk magazine (can’t recall the name but can track down) and am thrilled that Sudoku variants are getting easier to find.
@jbum Q for you: have you found a good hashtag here for number puzzle fans? Would love to have a community here since I don’t have irl friends that puzzle. One of my favorite vacation activities is # puzzles. Friends will be like “whatcha doon?” I’ll say “number puzzles” and they’ll be “oh like sudoku?” And I say “ well, I like sudoku ok but I do more complicated ones” and hope they’ll get excited and I can show them Bridges or some other entry level stuff but it never pans out…
@jbum Also: congrats on the book. Just ordered!
@cordeliane This is a really good question. A hashtag is in order. Not having my coffee yet, I will grouse that even the name #numberpuzzles isn’t all that great because there are some great puzzles in the genre (language independent logic puzzles) that don’t make use of numbers. I would prefer to call them #logicpuzzles, but there is already a custom of using that name to refer to the verbal kind of logic puzzle. So #numberpuzzles is probably the way to go!
@cordeliane There a couple of discords you might like that are largely devoted to these puzzles (puzzlersclub comes to mind). @dave is on a puzzle themed Mastodon which I suspect is worth checking out as well.