The Curious Engineer

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December 2017

  1. Blind Spot
  2. Simplicity
  3. A Bloody Bargain
  4. “Concerning Love”
  5. Great and Small
  6. The Giving Tree
  7. Eban Numbers
  8. Immortality?
  9. First Steps
  10. Silver and Gold
  11. Podcast Episode 183: An Everest Mystery
  12. The Last Digit
  13. Farewell
  14. Cameo 3
  15. RSS Quiz
  16. Unquote
  17. Double Dealing
  18. Plain Sailing
  19. A Thoughtful Gift
  20. Charlestonese
  21. Origins
  22. Podcast Episode 182: The Compulsive Wanderer
  23. Black and White
  24. Two Puzzles
  25. Extraordinary Lengths
  26. Hill of Crosses
  27. A Discovery
  28. Peace and Quiet
  29. Resolution
  30. Mysterious Ways
  31. Work for All
  32. Illumination
  33. In a Word
  34. Podcast Episode 181: Operation Gunnerside
  35. To Each His Own
  36. Open for Business
  37. Growing Pains
  38. Guidance
  39. A Way Through
  40. ‘Tis the Season
  41. Long Haul
  42. Recoupling
  43. The Feynman Ciphers
  44. Eh 4
  45. Podcast Episode 180: An Academic Impostor
  46. Works in Progress
  47. The Interlace
  48. Sound and Sense
  49. Truth and Purity

November 2017

  1. Decisions
  2. Plea
  3. Bullseye
  4. Overdue
  5. Unquote
  6. Podcast Episode 179: Two Vanished Young Writers
  7. Black and White
  8. Forking Paths
  9. Knife Fight
  10. Quickie
  11. Unsolved
  12. Good Boy
  13. Blades of Glory
  14. In a Word
  15. Podcast Episode 178: Lateral Thinking Puzzles
  16. Menace
  17. Near and Far
  18. Ah 3
  19. That Settles That
  20. The Grapevine
  21. An Orderly Alphabet
  22. Character Building
  23. That Explains It
  24. Murder Most Classificatory
  25. The Ur Sonata
  26. Marine Warfare
  27. Podcast Episode 177: Averting a Catastrophe in Manhattan
  28. False Alarm
  29. He Who Falls
  30. A Mating Machine
  31. Twice Missed
  32. Good Girl
  33. Snug
  34. Long Hand
  35. Horizons
  36. Misc 72
  37. The Liszt Fragment
  38. Unquote
  39. Podcast Episode 176: The Bear That Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh
  40. Hybrid Sports
  41. Case Work
  42. Technically Color
  43. An Ear for Geography
  44. Perspective
  45. Black and White
  46. Skyline
  47. Above It All

October 2017

  1. In a Word
  2. Motor City
  3. Another Perspective
  4. Podcast Episode 175: The Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island
  5. Early Adopters
  6. A Vertical Forest
  7. Priorities
  8. Daddy
  9. Four Play
  10. Some Enchanted Evening
  11. The Natural Order
  12. The Mephisto Spiral
  13. More Word Sums
  14. Swearing In
  15. Podcast Episode 174: Cracking the Nazi Code
  16. Occupational Hazards
  17. Two-Way Traffic
  18. No, Seriously
  19. Progress
  20. Doh 2
  21. Efficiency
  22. Domestic Situations
  23. Coverup
  24. Action!
  25. Restocking
  26. Unquote
  27. Podcast Episode 173: The Worst Journey in the World
  28. Huh
  29. Worldly Wise
  30. Upended
  31. Many Roads
  32. Jump Cut
  33. Black and White
  34. In a Word
  35. The Fifth Element
  36. The Alphabet Building
  37. The Hedgehog’s Dilemma
  38. Getting the Point
  39. Misc 71
  40. Immortal
  41. The Alphabet of Nature
  42. The Lucy Stone League
  43. Happy Landings
  44. Southern Literature
  45. Flight Insurance
  46. Field Reports
  47. Losing Time
  48. Podcast Episode 172: An American in Feudal Japan
  49. Pleased to Meet You

September 2017

  1. The Hollow Nickel Case
  2. Math Notes
  3. “Electric Bathing”
  4. The Scenic Route
  5. More Theatrical Codes
  6. Some Enchanted Evening
  7. For Short
  8. Syllogism
  9. “The Attack of Love”
  10. Unquote
  11. Podcast Episode 171: The Emperor of the United States
  12. The Impossible Puzzle
  13. Memorial
  14. Pedal Pushers
  15. Winkie
  16. Black and White
  17. The RNA Tie Club
  18. Initial Velocity
  19. A Pi Fractal
  20. Balance
  21. Four-Sided Story
  22. In a Word
  23. Podcast Episode 170: The Mechanical Turk
  24. Post Haste
  25. Quick Cuts
  26. Cash and Carry
  27. Worth a Try
  28. Who’s Calling?
  29. Hidden Mothers
  30. Planet Packing
  31. Taxicab Geometry
  32. Aptitude
  33. Hot and Cold
  34. Customer Service
  35. Podcast Episode 169: John Harrison and the Problem of Longitude
  36. The Trinity Hall Prime
  37. Triangle
  38. A Soaring Heart
  39. Straight Business
  40. The Victim
  41. Prototype
  42. Unquote
  43. Unto the Breach
  44. Moving Spirits
  45. Sitting In
  46. The Scenic Route
  47. Podcast Episode 168: The Destruction of the Doves Type
  48. Ends and Means
  49. Black and White
  50. Lament 2

August 2017

  1. A Double Entendre
  2. Wakeful Watchers
  3. Mix and Match
  4. Wit and Sense
  5. A Tree to Climb
  6. In a Word
  7. Podcast Episode 167: A Manhattan Murder Mystery
  8. Words and Music
  9. A Lofty Vision
  10. A Second Look
  11. Escalating Powers
  12. Law and Ordure
  13. For the Record
  14. Introductions
  15. Double Talk
  16. Spelling It Out
  17. Case Closed
  18. Math Notes
  19. Podcast Episode 166: A Dangerous Voyage
  20. Alchemy
  21. The Green Book
  22. Outreach
  23. Welcome Wagon
  24. Unquote
  25. Incognito
  26. An Architect’s Dream
  27. Light Work
  28. Marital Duels
  29. I Got a Feeling
  30. Unquote
  31. Podcast Episode 165: A Case of Mistaken Identity
  32. The Susquehanna Ice Bridge
  33. Figuring
  34. Black and White
  35. Antipodes
  36. Sylver Coinage
  37. Perspective
  38. His and Hers
  39. Turnabout
  40. The Bear Gates
  41. “Mother Nature in Tears”
  42. The Last Detail
  43. Podcast Episode 164: Vigil on the Ice
  44. A Good Start
  45. Mens Agitat Molem
  46. United Nations
  47. Overtime
  48. In a Word
  49. A Second Career
  50. Freedom
  51. The Slave of Passion
  52. Changing Views
  53. A Grim Climate
  54. Borrowed Insight

July 2017

  1. Podcast Episode 163: Enslaved in the Sahara
  2. Rude Weapons
  3. The Battle of Surfaces
  4. Unquote
  5. Dressed for Work
  6. Unlimited Shuffleboard
  7. Math Notes
  8. Life Size
  9. Travel Planning
  10. The Angel Problem
  11. While You Wait
  12. Black and White
  13. Safe
  14. Perspective
  15. Vinkensport
  16. Departing the Club
  17. Return to Sender
  18. Misc 70
  19. Lost Treasure
  20. Math Notes
  21. Northwest Passage
  22. Polyglot Ten-Squares
  23. Q e d 2
  24. Podcast Episode 162: John Muir and Stickeen
  25. The Man of the Hole
  26. Late Again
  27. Nothing Doing
  28. In a Word
  29. A Little Story
  30. Effles
  31. Never Too Late
  32. Cheryl’s Birthday
  33. Patrolling the Palace
  34. Monkey See
  35. Unquote
  36. Podcast Episode 161: The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
  37. Handimals
  38. Animal Behavior
  39. Shot Locks
  40. Master Class
  41. Missing a Train
  42. More Anamorphosis
  43. Noted in Passing
  44. Black and White
  45. His and Hers
  46. Piecework
  47. Podcast Episode 160: The Birmingham Sewer Lion
  48. To Whom It May Concern

June 2017

  1. The Shoe Corner
  2. Regrets
  3. Higher Magic
  4. Unquote
  5. Point of View
  6. In a Word
  7. Spirits of the Departed
  8. A Twist in History
  9. Table Talk
  10. Podcast Episode 159: The Mozart of Mathematics
  11. Fleeting Thoughts
  12. The Greatest
  13. The SNARC Effect
  14. Figure and Ground
  15. Tatlin’s Tower
  16. The Banana Bat
  17. World View
  18. Elevation
  19. Partnership
  20. The Ambiguous Horseman
  21. Wanted 4
  22. Podcast Episode 158: The Mistress of Murder Farm
  23. Lovecraft in Paris
  24. A Long Sleep
  25. Starting Over
  26. Match Making
  27. Wheels Within Wheels
  28. A Garden Sermon
  29. Prime Magic
  30. Many in One
  31. A Stormy Mistress
  32. Podcast Episode 157: The Brutal History of Batavia’s Graveyard
  33. Breathless
  34. Copycats
  35. The Baltic Way
  36. Hocus Pocus
  37. Things to Come
  38. Unquote
  39. Undone
  40. Island Cats
  41. Black and White
  42. Memorial
  43. Podcast Episode 156: The Most Dedicated Soldier
  44. Piecemeal Portraits
  45. The Szilassi Polyhedron
  46. In a Word
  47. Read It All
  48. A Gift for Words
  49. Square Deal

May 2017

  1. Rapid Transit
  2. Fibs
  3. Happily Ever After?
  4. Acquitting Oneself
  5. Podcast Episode 155: The Giraffe Who Walked to Paris
  6. Pictures of Motion
  7. Alternate Route
  8. A Late Project
  9. Fire and Fog
  10. Room 101
  11. Crescent Lake
  12. Peace and Quiet
  13. Podcast Episode 154: Spared by a Volcano
  14. An End in Sight
  15. Unquote
  16. Moo 2
  17. Scene 2
  18. Audition
  19. Misc 69
  20. Equilibrium
  21. False Glory
  22. Quiz
  23. Leaping Lena
  24. Black and White
  25. Podcast Episode 153: A Victorian Stalker
  26. In a Word
  27. Paint by Number
  28. Quick Change
  29. Adam’s Bridge
  30. Grant and the Mule
  31. From Beyond
  32. “The Elephant Who Walked to Manchester”
  33. Mr. Big
  34. Thorough
  35. Parting Words
  36. Double Alphamagic Squares
  37. The Swimming Reindeer
  38. In the Dark
  39. A Lost Landmark
  40. In a Word
  41. Far From Home
  42. Nature Reading
  43. Day by Day
  44. Unquote
  45. The Right Perspective
  46. Podcast Episode 152: Lateral Thinking Puzzles

April 2017

  1. That Good Night
  2. Math Limericks
  3. The Kate Bush Conjecture
  4. Science Fiction
  5. No More Pencils
  6. A Moment
  7. Boys’ Club
  8. “Holes” and Factors
  9. Evolution
  10. Black and White
  11. Podcast Episode 151: Double-Crossing the Nazis
  12. Math and Pancakes
  13. Riposte
  14. Edifice Wrecks
  15. Tempest-Tost
  16. In a Word
  17. Tribute
  18. Recycling Poetry
  19. Now You See Them
  20. Tech Talk
  21. A Poet’s Arsenal
  22. Podcast Episode 150: The Prince of Nowhere
  23. Far From Home
  24. History Search
  25. Overheard
  26. The Cherries Puzzle
  27. Elevated Taste
  28. The Disintegration Loops
  29. Cinéma Vérité
  30. Detente
  31. Inspiration
  32. Unquote
  33. Podcast Episode 149: The North Pond Hermit
  34. A Pattern-Breaking Pattern
  35. The Most Unwanted Song
  36. Scoop 4
  37. An Audio Ghost
  38. The Extra Mile
  39. In a Word
  40. Cross Purposes
  41. First Contact
  42. When in Rome …
  43. Black and White
  44. Podcast Episode 148: The Perfect Murder
  45. 77777 …
  46. Aronson’s Sequence

March 2017

  1. The Lonely Runner
  2. Good Night Lights
  3. Conway’s RATS Sequence
  4. Quickie
  5. Monte Kaolino
  6. Breath Control
  7. A Hat Puzzle
  8. Old Words
  9. Podcast Episode 147: The Call of Mount Kenya
  10. Tommy
  11. The Arlington Ladies
  12. The Jump
  13. On Foot
  14. Green Indeed
  15. A Looking-Glass Letter
  16. “A Remarkable Newspaper”
  17. In a Word
  18. Unquote
  19. Podcast Episode 146: Alone in the Wilderness
  20. A Mathless Math Puzzle
  21. The Greatest Show
  22. Pentalpha
  23. Pandigital Pi
  24. Letter From Home
  25. Black and White
  26. A Guilty Key
  27. Podcast Episode 145: The Pied Piper of Saipan
  28. Person Curves
  29. Gratitude
  30. Cross-Country Golf
  31. Unquote
  32. Ships That Pass
  33. Matched Set
  34. Shame and Fortune
  35. Warming Up
  36. A Snow Dam
  37. Good Luck
  38. Podcast Episode 144: The Murder Castle
  39. A Launching
  40. The Music Animation Machine
  41. For the Record
  42. Banishing Gloom
  43. The Value of Research
  44. In a Word
  45. Small Claims
  46. Proposition

February 2017

  1. The Coxcomb
  2. Black and White
  3. “A Very Descript Man”
  4. Podcast Episode 143: The Conscience Fund
  5. Crab Computing
  6. The Candy Thief
  7. Unquote
  8. Quick Thinking
  9. Noted 14
  10. Back Channels
  11. Command Performance
  12. Goodbye to Romance
  13. “A Cheap Correspondence”
  14. Drawn Onward
  15. Podcast Episode 142: Fingerprints and Polygraphs
  16. Little Wars
  17. Course Change
  18. Waste Not
  19. Bertrand’s Paradox
  20. The Phonautograph
  21. Rustic Furniture
  22. “A Brief in Rhyme”
  23. Through the Looking-Glass
  24. In a Word
  25. Podcast Episode 141: Abducted by Indians, a Captive of Whites
  26. Close Call
  27. Picket Fences
  28. R.I.P. Raymond Smullyan, 1919–2017
  29. Small World
  30. The Windmill Algorithm
  31. Art Appreciation
  32. Split Decision
  33. Noted 13
  34. Desperate Measures
  35. Unquote
  36. Podcast Episode 140: Ramanujan
  37. A Visitation
  38. Byways
  39. Black and White
  40. Gesundheit
  41. Shimon
  42. Teaching by Example
  43. Awol 3
  44. Grass Photographs

January 2017

  1. Peace
  2. Proof of Concept
  3. Hoss Sense
  4. Podcast Episode 139: The Painter’s Revenge
  5. In a Word
  6. Pentominoes
  7. “An Interesting War Relic”
  8. A Friendly Greeting
  9. An Empire’s Lamentation
  10. Art and Science
  11. No Connection
  12. Quiet Time
  13. Unquote
  14. Podcast Episode 138: Life in a Cupboard
  15. Ecommerce
  16. Spy Kids
  17. Fraternity
  18. And-cestry
  19. In a Word
  20. Area Magic Squares
  21. Turning Keys
  22. The Harcourt Interpolation
  23. Watching the Detectives
  24. The Mengenlehreuhr
  25. Extreme Measures
  26. Podcast Episode 137: The Mystery of Fiona Macleod
  27. Resolution
  28. Black and White
  29. Triangular Time
  30. “The Song of the Yellow Cork”
  31. The Perplexed Cellarman
  32. New Sounds
  33. Signing Off
  34. The Holdout
  35. The Full Story
  36. Child Protection
  37. The Real World
  38. Podcast Episode 136: The Boston Molasses Disaster
  39. New Light
  40. Crying Wolf
  41. Taste
  42. Traffic Planning
  43. Rough
  44. A Compensatory Harmonica
  45. The Spring (Arrangements) Bill
  46. Unquote
  47. The Senster
  48. Small World
  49. Pianissimo

2016 549

December 2016

  1. The Humble-Nishiyama Randomness Game
  2. Destiny
  3. An Evening Stroll
  4. Get On With It
  5. First Things First
  6. The Last Blessing
  7. Floor, Please?
  8. In a Word
  9. False Start
  10. Podcast Episode 135: Lateral Thinking Puzzles
  11. The Jeep Problem
  12. Eternity in an Hour
  13. Graft
  14. Things and Stuff
  15. Finale
  16. Misc 68
  17. Self-Seeking
  18. The Two Errand Boys
  19. Podcast Episode 134: The Christmas Truce
  20. New Music
  21. Solitons
  22. Keyboard Variations
  23. The More the Airier?
  24. Growth Potential
  25. Unquote
  26. Black and White
  27. Last Business
  28. 8 Is Enough
  29. Podcast Episode 133: Notes and Queries
  30. Kapitza’s Pendulum
  31. Small Business
  32. Memento Mori
  33. Media Relations
  34. Panorama
  35. A Weighty Burden
  36. Forward!
  37. Fence Work
  38. Light Exercise
  39. Podcast Episode 132: The Mad Gasser of Mattoon
  40. In a Word
  41. Still Life
  42. The Squire’s Puzzle
  43. The Lycurgus Cup
  44. The Do Nothing Machine

November 2016

  1. Curtain Call
  2. Undead
  3. Legerdemain
  4. Podcast Episode 131: Escape From Libby Prison
  5. The Cornish Cliff Mystery
  6. First and Last
  7. Sommelier!
  8. In a Word
  9. Midnight Oil
  10. Togetherness
  11. Misc 67
  12. Podcast Episode 130: The Unlikely Ultramarathoner
  13. Unquote
  14. Self-Service
  15. Mens et Manus
  16. Easy Come …
  17. Point to Point
  18. Sunrise, Sunset
  19. Shifting Areas
  20. Ready-Made
  21. Podcast Episode 129: The Voynich Manuscript
  22. The Margate Shell Grotto
  23. Self-Descriptive Squares
  24. Surprise Appearance
  25. Emerging Artists
  26. Dividing the Spoils
  27. “A Postal Problem”
  28. The Shortest Road
  29. Podcast Episode 128: The Battle for Castle Itter
  30. Animal Spirits
  31. A Great Man
  32. Black and White
  33. Ups and Downs
  34. Unquote
  35. Alternate Routes
  36. Vacancies
  37. A Splitting Headache

October 2016

  1. Immaterial
  2. Smoothly
  3. Harms and the Man
  4. Practicalities
  5. In a Word
  6. Inspiration
  7. A Point of Duty
  8. Out of Bounds
  9. Coming and Going
  10. The Donjon Keep Window
  11. Foreign Relations
  12. Podcast Episode 127: Rowing Across the Atlantic
  13. Asked and Answered
  14. Seeing and Saying
  15. Black and White
  16. Directions
  17. Speaking Volumes
  18. Royal Descent
  19. Special Order
  20. Unquote
  21. A Premonition
  22. Pas de Deux
  23. Podcast Episode 126: The Great Australian Poetry Hoax
  24. Hope and Change
  25. Climbing Chains
  26. A Disjoint Map
  27. You’re Welcome
  28. Hear Hear
  29. A Long Swim
  30. Pow
  31. Oops 24
  32. Brothers in Legs
  33. In a Word
  34. Podcast Episode 125: The Campden Wonder
  35. For Short
  36. Altamura Man
  37. Downtime
  38. Exeunt 2
  39. Moving Day
  40. Backup
  41. Unquote
  42. One Salad, To Go
  43. The Heidelberg Tun
  44. Missing You
  45. Podcast Episode 124: D.B. Cooper
  46. Rotary Jails
  47. Size Matters

September 2016

  1. Brass
  2. A Modest Proposal
  3. Some Tidy Anagrams
  4. Good Turns
  5. Black and White
  6. Collared!
  7. Something Borrowed
  8. In a Word
  9. Podcast Episode 123: Washington D.C.’s Hidden Tunnels
  10. Coming and Going
  11. Shifting Ground
  12. Attitude
  13. Souvenir
  14. Unquote
  15. Resolution
  16. Game Set
  17. Finders Keepers
  18. Summing Up
  19. Dashed Hopes
  20. Orderly
  21. Podcast Episode 122: The Bear Who Went to War
  22. Misc 66
  23. The Paradox of Musical Description
  24. Applications
  25. You Are Here
  26. Nothing Doing
  27. One for All?
  28. Heady Matters
  29. Starting Over
  30. Kindling Trouble
  31. Podcast Episode 121: Starving for Science
  32. “Caput Ei Abscidite!”
  33. Hoist, Petard
  34. In a Word
  35. War and Peace
  36. Sign Play
  37. Unquote
  38. A Cognitive Illusion
  39. Black and White
  40. Sky-High
  41. Podcast Episode 120: The Barnes Mystery
  42. Here and There
  43. Crossing Guard
  44. Fair Enough
  45. Best Efforts
  46. Big News
  47. Airborne

August 2016

  1. Extremities
  2. Match Point
  3. In a Word
  4. Fresh Hell
  5. Podcast Episode 119: Lost in the Taiga
  6. Special Interests
  7. Building Schemes
  8. Flip-Floppers
  9. The Absent-Minded Driver’s Paradox
  10. A Little Help
  11. Four-for-All
  12. Black and White
  13. Eodermdromes
  14. The Oddfather
  15. Unquote
  16. The Simson Line
  17. Podcast Episode 118: The Restless Corpse of Elmer McCurdy
  18. Enochian
  19. The Power of Prayer
  20. Expecting
  21. The Paulding Light
  22. Urban Studies
  23. Head and Heart
  24. Company
  25. Going Nowhere
  26. In a Word
  27. Recycling
  28. Podcast Episode 117: The Road to En-dor
  29. The Enemy Within
  30. Desargues’ Theorem
  31. Cultural Outreach
  32. Timekeeping
  33. Organic Chemistry
  34. Cyclic Billiards
  35. Sorted
  36. Parallelogram Puzzle
  37. Reconceptions
  38. Anamonics
  39. Unquote
  40. Podcast Episode 116: Notes and Queries
  41. More Morals
  42. Moessner’s Theorem
  43. Decoy
  44. Black and White
  45. All Roads
  46. In a Word
  47. The Test
  48. Impromptu
  49. Safety First
  50. Too Late
  51. Perimeter Check

July 2016

  1. Love Maps
  2. Crime and Punishment
  3. Customer Service
  4. Mixing Day
  5. One Way
  6. Three Exclusive Clubs
  7. Two Odd Etymologies
  8. Five by Five
  9. Sperner’s Lemma
  10. Unquote
  11. Query 3
  12. Podcast Episode 115: Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier
  13. The Magdeburg Hemispheres
  14. Sound and Sense
  15. Appeals
  16. An Elizabethan Word Square
  17. In a Word
  18. Wild Life
  19. Villarceau Circles
  20. The Ellsberg Paradox
  21. First Person
  22. A Separate Peace
  23. Black and White
  24. Podcast Episode 114: The Desperation of Donald Crowhurst
  25. Road Work
  26. Footwork
  27. Figures
  28. A Square Triangle
  29. “On the Question of Choice”
  30. Hat Check
  31. Class Warfare
  32. Comet Vintages
  33. Unquote
  34. Podcast Episode 113: The Battle Over Mother’s Day
  35. This Land Is Your Land
  36. One World
  37. First Impressions
  38. Misc 65
  39. Absent Friends
  40. Mirror Multiplication
  41. In a Word
  42. Open Secrets
  43. Love and Laureates
  44. Fenceposts
  45. The War of the Ring
  46. Podcast Episode 112: The Disappearance of Michael Rockefeller
  47. The Tipping Point
  48. Presence of Mind

June 2016

  1. Ground Rules
  2. “The Cage Without Birds”
  3. Person to Person
  4. Unquote
  5. Blackwell’s Bet
  6. Black and White
  7. Podcast Episode 111: Japanese Fire Balloons
  8. Talking
  9. Application
  10. Progress
  11. Fore 5
  12. “Juliet”
  13. Moving Day
  14. Presto 7
  15. Character Study
  16. Paean
  17. Cross Purposes
  18. In a Word
  19. Podcast Episode 110: The Brooklyn Chameleon
  20. The Chromatic Illusion
  21. Wire Bonds
  22. Eating Words
  23. Listening In
  24. The Return of Monty Hall
  25. Misc 64
  26. Bootstraps
  27. Unquote
  28. Podcast Episode 109: Trapped in a Cave
  29. Distant Early Warning
  30. Coming and Going
  31. Technicalities
  32. Divide and Conquer
  33. Last Words
  34. The One-Seventh Ellipse
  35. Unquote
  36. Overdone Bacon
  37. In a Word
  38. Podcast Episode 108: The Greenwich Time Lady
  39. A Guest Appearance
  40. Vulture Picnic
  41. No Waiting
  42. Reverie
  43. Notes and Measures
  44. Dead Issues

May 2016

  1. The Fifth Card
  2. Self-Effacing
  3. Podcast Episode 107: Arthur Nash and the Golden Rule
  4. Risky Business
  5. A Loss for Words
  6. Short Takes
  7. Fellow Travelers
  8. The Four Travelers Problem
  9. Okay Then
  10. Small World
  11. Skyward
  12. Not So Fast
  13. Podcast Episode 106: The Popgun War
  14. Followup
  15. Balance
  16. Elements
  17. Principle
  18. Blow by Blow
  19. Warm Words
  20. Unquote
  21. Present Company
  22. In a Word
  23. Language Arts
  24. Apollonian Circle Packings
  25. Mistaken Identity
  26. Self Study
  27. Parenthood
  28. A Rolling Lemon
  29. Wing Men
  30. Left or Right?
  31. New Tricks
  32. Podcast Episode 105: Surviving on Seawater
  33. Travel Delays
  34. Persons and Promises
  35. In a Word
  36. The Dark Side
  37. Unquote
  38. In Other Words
  39. Back on Track
  40. Witchery
  41. Black and White
  42. Podcast Episode 104: The Harvey’s Casino Bombing
  43. The Vague Specific

April 2016

  1. “A Victim of Irregularity”
  2. Good Boy
  3. Clear Purpose
  4. “Courage”
  5. The Discursive Dilemma
  6. Couplet
  7. Moving Pictures
  8. Podcast Episode 103: Legislating Pi
  9. Pagan Island
  10. “A Dialogue Between the Head and Heart”
  11. “Sweet-Seasoned Showers”
  12. The Public Figure
  13. Origins
  14. Leave-Taking
  15. In a Word
  16. The Outer Limits
  17. Unquote
  18. Ruly English
  19. “The Kiss”
  20. Podcast Episode 102: The Bunion Derby
  21. Loss
  22. Fair Enough
  23. “The Pythagorean Curiosity”
  24. Boontling
  25. Twos and Tens
  26. Bedtime Stories
  27. In a Word
  28. Corner Reflectors
  29. Notable Nightmares
  30. Black and White
  31. Spring Showers
  32. Podcast Episode 101: Jerome
  33. Poem Codes
  34. Moving Constants
  35. Last Orders
  36. In a Word
  37. Condolence
  38. The Barbershop Paradox
  39. Unquote
  40. The Falling Chain
  41. Dream Cuisine
  42. Podcast Episode 100: Lateral Thinking Puzzles
  43. Watkin’s Folly
  44. Mallows Bay
  45. Perspective
  46. As Directed

March 2016

  1. Presto 6
  2. Literate Art
  3. The Hollowood Function
  4. Blind Date
  5. Plain Sailing
  6. Going Places
  7. Podcast Episode 99: Notes and Queries
  8. Magic Space
  9. Black and White
  10. In a Word
  11. Viewpoint
  12. Parrot Talk
  13. Unquote
  14. Cover Story
  15. A Reflexive Rainbow
  16. As You Were
  17. Podcast Episode 98: The St. Albans Raid
  18. Lanchester’s Laws
  19. Ukrania
  20. Reading a Pitch
  21. The Vennbahn
  22. Fitting
  23. A Closed Road
  24. The German Tank Problem
  25. Good Fortune
  26. Different Strokes
  27. Reverses
  28. Podcast Episode 97: The Villisca Ax Murders
  29. Dinner Wit
  30. Town and Country
  31. Disappeared
  32. Living Large
  33. In a Word
  34. Black and White
  35. Current Affairs
  36. Unquote
  37. Braess’ Paradox
  38. Even-Handed
  39. Podcast Episode 96: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara
  40. Late Service
  41. Unsinkable
  42. Other Business
  43. Rise and Shine
  44. “Elegy”
  45. Mass Transit
  46. Back Trouble
  47. Better Late
  48. In Short
  49. Marine Engineering

February 2016

  1. Math Notes
  2. Podcast Episode 95: A New Day at Charleston
  3. Another Day
  4. Reflection
  5. Trivium
  6. Progress
  7. In a Word
  8. Steps Ahead
  9. A Prime Number Generator
  10. Practice
  11. Misc 63
  12. Black and White
  13. Ballot Measures
  14. Unquote
  15. Podcast Episode 94: The Living Unknown Soldier
  16. The Revelation Game
  17. Giving Pause
  18. Spotted
  19. Inspiration
  20. Early Warning
  21. Pip Squeak
  22. A Hidden Puzzle
  23. For the Record
  24. Space Rent
  25. Horsepower
  26. A Sad Memory
  27. In a Word
  28. Hare Mail
  29. Rock Steady
  30. Perspective
  31. Electrical Fault
  32. Lucky Fourteen
  33. Black and White
  34. None for All
  35. Unquote
  36. Skyward
  37. The Union-Closed Sets Conjecture
  38. In a Word
  39. Podcast Episode 93: The Old Flying Days
  40. As Advertised
  41. Foregone Conclusions
  42. The Dark Side
  43. Right of Way
  44. Storm Warning
  45. Unquote
  46. Grist
  47. Lost in Translation
  48. Personal Warmth
  49. Podcast Episode 92: The Forgotten Amendment

January 2016

  1. Last Wishes
  2. Neighborly
  3. Paperwork
  4. One-Sided Story
  5. Amnesia
  6. In a Word
  7. Beatty Sequences
  8. A House Afire
  9. A Hidden Economy
  10. Unquote
  11. Podcast Episode 91: Voyage of the Damned
  12. Point of Interest
  13. Enlightenment
  14. The Qattara Depression Project
  15. Something New
  16. A Pitched Battle
  17. Fluke Encounter
  18. Sundaram’s Sieve
  19. Figures
  20. Podcast Episode 90: The Candy Bar War
  21. Long Takes
  22. Black and White
  23. In a Word
  24. Starting Early
  25. French Surprise
  26. Down in Front
  27. Unquote
  28. Hidden Sum
  29. Celestial Mechanics
  30. Straight and Narrow
  31. Podcast Episode 89: An African From Baltimore
  32. Special Delivery
  33. The Plate Trick
  34. The Eighth Plague
  35. Complementary Sequences
  36. Steps Back
  37. De Gua’s Theorem
  38. Short-Timer
  39. Faded Glory
  40. Moving Violation
  41. Words and Numbers
  42. Podcast Episode 88: Mrs. Wilkinson and the Lyrebird
  43. Progress
  44. Footwork

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