puzzles – Post Position https://nickm.com/post Nick Montfort Tue, 21 Jul 2015 01:45:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://nickm.com/post/wp-content/stuff/cropped-favicon-32x32.png puzzles – Post Position https://nickm.com/post 32 32 The Great Vowel Shift https://nickm.com/post/2015/07/the-great-vowel-shift/ https://nickm.com/post/2015/07/the-great-vowel-shift/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2015 01:45:07 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=4309 My first PuzzleScript game is a concrete poem that, after a few levels, taunts you, the player, with a metapuzzle.

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It’s “The Great Vowel Shift.”

]]> https://nickm.com/post/2015/07/the-great-vowel-shift/feed/ 1 A Riddle https://nickm.com/post/2014/01/a-riddle/ https://nickm.com/post/2014/01/a-riddle/#comments Thu, 23 Jan 2014 00:46:58 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=3468 Consider it not in French, but Italian.

There are obsession-inducing transmissions, audio transmissions.

The ending is ugly … overall and in one language, at least.

But the story is a poet’s story – it begins with _O_ and ends with _O_.

]]> https://nickm.com/post/2014/01/a-riddle/feed/ 6 “Description,” My 2014 New Year’s Poem https://nickm.com/post/2014/01/description-my-2014-new-years-poem/ https://nickm.com/post/2014/01/description-my-2014-new-years-poem/#respond Wed, 22 Jan 2014 21:46:17 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=3461 “Description,” my 2014 New Year’s poem, was sent out as a text file at the end of 2013; it’s now online in a solvable and checkable form, in a new Web edition.

After discarding a baker's / dozen of the fliers and papers ...

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