The Curious Engineer

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December 2019

  1. Patriotism
  2. The UTA Flight 772 Memorial
  3. Dear Sirs
  4. Podcast Episode 278: Lateral Thinking Puzzles
  5. Knights and Knaves
  6. The Silurian Hypothesis
  7. In a Word
  8. To Your Door
  9. Unquote
  10. A Planned And
  11. Pangrammatic Loops
  12. The Davenport Tablets
  13. Cubes and Squares
  14. That Time Again
  15. Alternatives
  16. Black and White
  17. Sky Pirates
  18. Truth in Advertising
  19. That Solves That
  20. The Jankó Keyboard
  21. Gregarious
  22. Ups and Downs
  23. Turn, Turn, Turn
  24. A New Find
  25. Now Showing
  26. Podcast Episode 277: The Mad Trapper of Rat River
  27. “A Rebus-Letter”
  28. False Features
  29. Never Mind
  30. Breaking the News
  31. Pain and Possession
  32. Wagah-Attari Border Ceremony
  33. A Hat Puzzle
  34. A Match
  35. Reckoning
  36. Another Way
  37. Hidden Image
  38. Podcast Episode 276: An Unlikely Confederate Spy
  39. First Friends
  40. Last Stop
  41. The Friendly Floatees
  42. In a Word
  43. A Double Disaster
  44. Unquote
  45. An Urgent Question
  46. Counterpoint
  47. Who’s There?
  48. Misc 80
  49. Black and White
  50. Podcast Episode 275: A Kidnapped Painting
  51. One of a Kind

November 2019

  1. Line Work
  2. Books
  3. The Meigs Elevated Railway
  4. Spectator Sport
  5. Boundaries
  6. A Circle Theorem
  7. A Bureaucracy Maze
  8. Podcast Episode 274: Death in a Nutshell
  9. What Needs More Words?
  10. The South-Pointing Chariot
  11. A Ghost Village
  12. Bilingual Poetry
  13. Fellowship
  14. Mercury Pendulums
  15. Order 2
  16. Cross Words
  17. All Together Now
  18. Warning
  19. Riposte
  20. Podcast Episode 273: Alice Ramsey’s Historic Drive
  21. In a Word
  22. The Fog of War
  23. Sums and Sums
  24. Unquote
  25. Tableau
  26. “The Trembling Giant”
  27. Young and Old
  28. A New Worry
  29. An Eternal Triangle
  30. And That Meant Comfort
  31. Black and White
  32. Podcast Episode 272: The Cannibal Convict
  33. A Good Eye
  34. Unusual Books
  35. Wait For It
  36. Will I Am
  37. Truth in Advertising
  38. Code of Conduct
  39. Toki Pona
  40. Oops 26
  41. The Long View
  42. Backwards and Forwards
  43. Everyday Heroes
  44. Podcast Episode 271: The Fraudulent Life of Cassie Chadwick
  45. Harmony
  46. Misc Physics
  47. Lento
  48. Words to Remember

October 2019

  1. A Surprise First
  2. “The Kangaroo”
  3. No One Home
  4. The Slave Bible
  5. In a Word
  6. The Groaning-Board
  7. Unquote
  8. Podcast Episode 270: Kidnapped by North Korea
  9. Distant Neighbors
  10. Form and Function
  11. Elevated Thoughts
  12. Changing Times
  13. A Handy Calendar
  14. Acquaintances
  15. Rising Masses
  16. The Four Points, Two Distances Problem
  17. Erratum
  18. Black and White
  19. Podcast Episode 269: The Sack of Baltimore
  20. A Wine Slide Rule
  21. Narrators and Film
  22. Malfatti Circles
  23. “Let Liking Last”
  24. A Mouthful
  25. Sound Sense
  26. Proteomics
  27. Math Notes
  28. A Prose Maze
  29. Perspective
  30. The Bingo Paradox
  31. Podcast Episode 268: The Great Impostor
  32. The 36 Officers Problem
  33. Oh 10
  34. Fair Enough
  35. W Hour
  36. Actual Size
  37. Lingua Franca
  38. Quickie
  39. In a Word
  40. Safe Tears
  41. Misc 79
  42. Unquote
  43. Podcast Episode 267: The Murchison Murders
  44. For Short
  45. The Speech-to-Song Illusion
  46. Endless Learning
  47. Buzz Off
  48. Pressure
  49. An Early IMAX
  50. More Silent Music
  51. A Hidden Treasure
  52. Black and White
  53. Another One

September 2019

  1. A Near Thing
  2. Podcast Episode 266: Lateral Thinking Puzzles
  3. Equal Opportunity
  4. The Two Squares Puzzle
  5. Query 4
  6. Personal
  7. Prestissimo
  8. An Odd Episode
  9. Math Notes
  10. Redolence
  11. Illumination
  12. Nothing Doing
  13. Time Traveler
  14. 500 Entertaining Words
  15. Nobody Home
  16. In a Word
  17. Keeping Distance
  18. The Copenhagen Faustparodie
  19. A Bird’s-Eye View
  20. Unquote
  21. Lightning Rod Fashion
  22. Near Miss
  23. Some Two
  24. A Nose for Numbers
  25. Near and Far
  26. Podcast Episode 265: The Great Hedge of India
  27. Once and For All
  28. A Global Code
  29. Anatomy
  30. Math Notes
  31. Dash It All
  32. Public Health
  33. Black and White
  34. First Sight
  35. The Fibonacci Chimney
  36. Eavesdropping
  37. Unquote
  38. Podcast Episode 264: Jack Renton and the Saltwater People
  39. Fallback
  40. Westward Ho
  41. Might as Well
  42. A Clever Solution
  43. Simple Terms
  44. Thinking Big
  45. “Reading Laozi”
  46. A Closer Look
  47. In a Word
  48. Podcast Episode 263: Memories of Proust
  49. Unquote

August 2019

  1. “The Oldest Written Will”
  2. Motivation
  3. Pinpointing
  4. The Founder Effect
  5. “Atomyriades”
  6. First Principles
  7. Just in Case
  8. Cant
  9. Relativity
  10. Podcast Episode 262: A Modern-Day Thoreau
  11. Metal Fatigue
  12. Turn, Turn, Turn
  13. An Audible End
  14. Inhuman Comedy
  15. Emphasis
  16. The Oxford Electric Bell
  17. In and Out
  18. Black and White
  19. Good Fortune
  20. Magicker
  21. Unquote
  22. Podcast Episode 261: The Murder of Lord William Russell
  23. Revere’s Obelisk
  24. A Flea’s Journey
  25. “A Rabbit Tamed”
  26. Nose Harmony
  27. Character Study
  28. Autopilot
  29. Chivalry
  30. Procurement
  31. The Warwick Lion Fight
  32. Google Tools
  33. Tidings
  34. Podcast Episode 260: The Rugged Road
  35. In a Word
  36. Non-Starter
  37. Escalation
  38. The Citardauq Formula
  39. Time to Kill
  40. Spun Art
  41. In the Pink
  42. The Magic Total
  43. Forward Thinking
  44. The Bridegroom’s Oak
  45. Outreach
  46. Podcast Episode 259: The Astor Place Riot
  47. Also-Rans
  48. Special Measures
  49. Home Again
  50. Latin Proverbs
  51. Black and White
  52. Turnabout

July 2019

  1. Fire and Water
  2. In Common
  3. The Letters of Utrecht
  4. Demonstration
  5. Unquote
  6. Podcast Episode 258: The First Great Train Robbery
  7. Poetic Justice
  8. The Parallel Climbers Problem
  9. “The Dead Alive in the Biograph”
  10. All Together Now
  11. The Photophone
  12. “Death”
  13. The Pizza Effect
  14. House Debate
  15. Perspective
  16. Regards
  17. In a Word
  18. A Broken Promise
  19. Shelter Morality
  20. Yar 2
  21. Wisdom
  22. All’s Well That Ends Well
  23. Appearances
  24. A Visitation
  25. Legacy
  26. The Unreality of Time
  27. The Mascot Moth
  28. Sublime, Ridiculous
  29. Podcast Episode 257: The Sledge Patrol
  30. A Late Carroll Game
  31. Impression
  32. Black and White
  33. “Which?”
  34. Whole Story
  35. Diversification
  36. “Bike Keeps Family in Stitches”
  37. The Spirit Battery
  38. Form Before Function
  39. Neat 4
  40. Unquote
  41. Podcast Episode 256: Lasseter’s Reef
  42. Theory and Practice
  43. Instructions
  44. Visual Aids
  45. Simple Enough
  46. Boom 3
  47. The Dilemma of Timeless Knowledge
  48. The Motorist’s Complaint
  49. Better People
  50. In a Word
  51. Podcast Episode 255: Death on the Ice

June 2019

  1. The Cute Response
  2. When in Rome
  3. Invention
  4. Good Faith
  5. Exit Strategies
  6. Self-Image
  7. Directions
  8. Water Colors
  9. “A Chess Packing Problem”
  10. The Dark Half
  11. Nosedive
  12. Podcast Episode 254: The Porthole Murder
  13. Black and White
  14. Chutzpah
  15. Slime Computing
  16. Unquote
  17. Thought
  18. Working Smarter
  19. Showdown
  20. There and Back
  21. Decomposition
  22. Inflated Rhetoric
  23. Van der Waerden’s Theorem
  24. Podcast Episode 253: The Dame of Sark
  25. Express
  26. “The Bastard Professor”
  27. “A Geometrical Paradox”
  28. Words Without Language
  29. Tight Squeeze
  30. “Man Killed by His Own Coffin”
  31. A Narrative Alphametic
  32. Aliquot Sequences
  33. “On a Man Run Over by an Omnibus”
  34. The Egyptian Lo Shu
  35. In a Word
  36. Podcast Episode 252: The Wild Boy of Aveyron
  37. Helping Hand
  38. The Taxicab Problem
  39. Literary Limericks
  40. Cutting Up
  41. Counter Play 2
  42. Extempore
  43. The Perpetual Diamond
  44. Black and White
  45. Light and Shadow
  46. A Catalog of Clever Expedients
  47. Unquote
  48. Podcast Episode 251: Joseph Palmer’s Beard
  49. Misc 78
  50. Practice

May 2019

  1. Crowd Control
  2. “To My Pupil”
  3. The McGurk Effect
  4. Motivation
  5. The Apology Paradox
  6. Ellison Words
  7. The False Position Method
  8. In a Word
  9. Podcast Episode 250: The General Slocum
  10. A New Illusion
  11. Mail Boat Jumpers
  12. The Bavinger House
  13. Exercise
  14. Many-Sided Story
  15. Shibboleths
  16. Fitting
  17. A Rapid Sum
  18. Makes Sense
  19. Podcast Episode 249: The Robbers Cave Experiment
  20. Audition
  21. Miniatures
  22. Drawing Customers
  23. Breaking
  24. A Fashion Puzzle
  25. Geography
  26. Black and White
  27. Unwholesome
  28. Growing Room
  29. Multimedia
  30. Unquote
  31. Podcast Episode 248: Smoky the War Dog
  32. Red and Blue
  33. “Oscar’s Morning Work”
  34. More Madan
  35. Alice Chess
  36. Constrained Writing
  37. Auld Lang Syne
  38. Trompe L’Oeil
  39. Math Notes
  40. Reflection
  41. One to Go
  42. In a Word
  43. Podcast Episode 247: Lateral Thinking Puzzles
  44. Another Puzzling Commute
  45. Str8ts
  46. An Unsolved Puzzle
  47. Elegant Variation
  48. Getting Acquainted
  49. “Success Story”
  50. Cultivation
  51. Math Notes
  52. Miracles and Agents

April 2019

  1. Levine’s Sequence
  2. The Gymnasticon
  3. Podcast Episode 246: Gene Tierney’s Secret Heartbreak
  4. Free Enterprise
  5. Words and Music
  6. “An Infernal Palindrome”
  7. Cold Justice
  8. Cthulhu Fhtagn
  9. Black and White
  10. Zipf’s Law
  11. Light and Shadow
  12. Stolpersteine
  13. The Finger Pillory
  14. Unquote
  15. Podcast Episode 245: Jeanne Baret
  16. A First
  17. Diversions
  18. Riddles
  19. Illumination
  20. Unquote
  21. No Comment
  22. Landscapes
  23. Chessametics
  24. All Together Now
  25. In a Word
  26. Podcast Episode 244: The Women’s Protest
  27. Double Vision
  28. Cover Story
  29. Wind Art
  30. Observation
  31. Spine Tinglers
  32. Practice
  33. Unto the Breach
  34. His and Hers
  35. Apparition
  36. Hooky
  37. Grice’s Maxims
  38. Podcast Episode 243: The Peshtigo Fire
  39. Creed
  40. Float Like a Butterfly
  41. The Scenic Route
  42. Time Pyramid
  43. Black and White
  44. Turán’s Brick Factory Problem
  45. Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours
  46. Oops 25
  47. Bricks and Mortar
  48. Poser 3
  49. Lessons Learned
  50. “Mutual Problem”

March 2019

  1. Noted 17
  2. “Correction”
  3. Secret Admirer
  4. Recycling
  5. Trench Art
  6. Unquote
  7. Never Mind
  8. A Geography Quiz
  9. Crime Control
  10. The Voder
  11. Political Science
  12. Podcast Episode 242: The Cardiff Giant
  13. In a Word
  14. Set Theory
  15. The Engine That Couldn’t
  16. Next Best Thing
  17. Conway’s Soldiers
  18. Unseasonable
  19. Rapid Play
  20. Virtual Computing
  21. Odor Deafness
  22. A Family Outing
  23. Podcast Episode 241: A Case of Scientific Self-Deception
  24. The Cognitive Reflection Test
  25. Slitherlink
  26. A for Effort
  27. Black and White
  28. Making Do
  29. The Roving Princess
  30. Distortion
  31. Accessory
  32. Bertrand’s Problem
  33. Stagecraft
  34. Distinction
  35. Podcast Episode 240: The Shark Papers
  36. Small and Large
  37. Unquote
  38. Moondance
  39. Progress
  40. Much Ado
  41. Noted 16
  42. A Cold Case
  43. Sanity Check
  44. Seems Right
  45. In a Word
  46. Podcast Episode 239: The Man-Eaters of Tsavo
  47. The Paradox of Forgiveness
  48. For Pi Day
  49. A Thorough Anagram
  50. Second Thoughts

February 2019

  1. Signposts
  2. Bootstraps
  3. E Pluribus Unum
  4. Levon’s Divine Underground
  5. Something Borrowed
  6. Philosophical Limericks
  7. Turbulence
  8. Podcast Episode 238: The Plight of Mary Ellen Wilson
  9. The THOG Problem
  10. The Blur Building
  11. Stirred, Not Shaken
  12. Black and White
  13. A Pretty Puzzle
  14. An Empty Message
  15. Topology
  16. A Bite
  17. Love and Reasons
  18. Podcast Episode 237: The Baseball Spy
  19. Loose Change
  20. “Algebraic Theory of French Letters”
  21. Sam
  22. Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions
  23. Dictum
  24. Working Conditions
  25. Back and Forth
  26. Utsuro-Bune
  27. Unquote
  28. Inspiration
  29. In a Word
  30. Podcast Episode 236: The Last Lap
  31. The Dr. Fox Effect
  32. A Memorial Puzzle
  33. “The Dyspeptic’s Suicide”
  34. Art Appreciation
  35. Note
  36. Memory Limit
  37. A Nonentity
  38. Progress
  39. Pi Clacks
  40. Strange Encounter
  41. A Problem From 1725
  42. Podcast Episode 235: Leon Festinger and the Alien Apocalypse
  43. Scattered Stars
  44. Rubik’s Clock
  45. The Drowning Wife
  46. Black and White

January 2019

  1. Open Questions
  2. Escalating Magic
  3. Wayward Pigeons
  4. Northeast Passage
  5. The Veiled Virgin
  6. The Sea Island Problem
  7. Sorry
  8. Podcast Episode 234: The Dig Tree
  9. Good and Ugly
  10. Mood Indigo
  11. Set Dressing
  12. Observation
  13. Outside the Box
  14. Full Circle
  15. Unquote
  16. Fair Play
  17. Podcast Episode 233: Flight to Freedom
  18. Doorstops
  19. Thinking Big
  20. Threes and Fours
  21. Misc 77
  22. Good Boy
  23. Seduction
  24. Dance Lessons
  25. Morrie’s Law
  26. Tempting Fate
  27. Area Matters
  28. The Vowel Triangle
  29. Podcast Episode 232: The Indomitable Spirit of Douglas Bader
  30. The Kiss at City Hall
  31. Fortuitous Numbers
  32. Unquote
  33. Subscriber Trouble
  34. Black and White
  35. A Keypad Oddity
  36. Music and Identity
  37. Specimen
  38. The Paul Rubin Cipher
  39. A Time Machine
  40. Islandia
  41. Podcast Episode 231: The Halifax Explosion
  42. Ah 4
  43. Metamorphosis
  44. In Other Words
  45. The Steam Man
  46. The Elements of Style
  47. Inspiration
  48. Rebus
  49. Court Intrigue
  50. The Jones Live-Map

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December 2018

  1. In a Word
  2. Finding the Way
  3. Servant Trouble
  4. The Carolwood Pacific Railroad
  5. Paper Weight
  6. Couplet
  7. Team Players
  8. Math Notes
  9. Autumnal
  10. That Settles That
  11. Podcast Episode 230: Lateral Thinking Puzzles
  12. Duet 2
  13. An Army of Two
  14. Two Quizzes
  15. Oh 9
  16. A Surprise Guest
  17. Unquote
  18. Odd at Heart
  19. Sound and Sense
  20. Black and White
  21. Eric the Robot
  22. Podcast Episode 229: The Stone of Destiny
  23. Saved at Last
  24. A New Angle
  25. The Allais Paradox
  26. Shortcuts
  27. The Forest Grove Sound
  28. Good Neighbors
  29. Friendly Fire
  30. Seuss Taxidermy
  31. War Talk
  32. A Signature Achievement
  33. In a Word
  34. Podcast Episode 228: The Children’s Champion
  35. Point Pairs
  36. Light Exercise
  37. Hope
  38. The Clockwork Monk
  39. The Seneca White Deer
  40. In a Word
  41. Abstract
  42. The Indecisive Rower
  43. “Map of the Road to Hell!!”
  44. Memorable Numbers
  45. For What It’s Worth
  46. Podcast Episode 227: The Christmas Tree Ship
  47. Reflection
  48. “Death”

November 2018

  1. Clockwise
  2. Unquote
  3. “The Eagle Map of the United States”
  4. Two Puzzles
  5. History
  6. Footwork
  7. Solace
  8. Rinehart
  9. Podcast Episode 226: The Great Match Race
  10. Black and White
  11. Also-Rans
  12. “On the Faults of Men”
  13. Room of the Giants
  14. Illumination
  15. The Peters Projection
  16. A Call for Change
  17. Even Sevens
  18. Eyestrain
  19. Podcast Episode 225: The Great Stork Derby
  20. The Camden Bench
  21. Ones and Twos
  22. Kindred Spirits
  23. Diogenes
  24. Figure and Ground
  25. In a Word
  26. Efficiency
  27. Coincidence
  28. Truth Pays
  29. Podcast Episode 224: Lady Death
  30. Winners and Losers
  31. Pilot Program
  32. Volume Control
  33. Aphorism
  34. A Hidden Door
  35. The Ben Franklin Effect
  36. Unquote
  37. The Poison Garden
  38. The Dog and the Wolf
  39. Away From It All
  40. Time Trial
  41. Podcast Episode 223: The Prince of Forgers
  42. All Right Then
  43. In Memoriam
  44. Arukone
  45. The Best People
  46. Dead Reckoning
  47. In a Word

October 2018

  1. The Seven Coins Puzzle
  2. Analysis
  3. A Dissent
  4. Fruit Cocktail
  5. Principle
  6. Podcast Episode 222: The Year Without a Summer
  7. The Geek Code
  8. Math Notes
  9. A Tennis Poem
  10. Kriegspiel
  11. A Fool’s Logic
  12. Allestone
  13. Trade Secrets
  14. Relative
  15. The Miser and His Gold
  16. A Modest Proposal
  17. Podcast Episode 221: The Mystery Man of Essex County
  18. A Point of Law
  19. Perspective
  20. The IKEA Effect
  21. Edfaloba
  22. A Traveling Companion
  23. Form and Function
  24. “A Shipboard Romance”
  25. Vision 2
  26. Unquote
  27. Relations
  28. The Divorce
  29. Cache and Carry
  30. A Hidden Resource
  31. The Ghost in the Garret
  32. “The Throng”
  33. A for Enterprise
  34. Black and White
  35. The Beal Conjecture
  36. The Hexagonal Tortoise Problem
  37. Done
  38. In a Word
  39. A Private Fortune
  40. Plaint
  41. Podcast Episode 220: The Old Hero of Gettysburg
  42. Common Sense
  43. The Red Ball
  44. The Kolakoski Sequence
  45. Unquote
  46. Being There
  47. The Reminiscence Bump
  48. “The Artist”
  49. The Dining Cryptographers Problem
  50. Claque o’ Lanterns
  51. “Summer”
  52. The Sincerest Form
  53. Podcast Episode 219: The Greenbrier Ghost
  54. The Mother of Invention

September 2018

  1. Bases Into Gold
  2. “Life’s Gifts”
  3. Maekawa’s Theorem
  4. “A Geological Parable”
  5. Troubling Triangles
  6. Unquote
  7. Good Boy
  8. Tableau
  9. The Stable Marriage Problem
  10. Tact
  11. Podcast Episode 218: Lost in the Amazon
  12. Line Limit
  13. An Actor’s Notes
  14. Time Saver
  15. For What It’s Worth
  16. Black and White
  17. Connections
  18. La
  19. Math Notes
  20. In a Word
  21. Cube Route
  22. Enlightenment
  23. Podcast Episode 217: The Bone Wars
  24. Turn, Turn, Turn
  25. Focus
  26. Mostly Cloudy
  27. Singular
  28. Penance
  29. Subtext
  30. Room for More
  31. Self-Study
  32. Aplomb
  33. Forefathers
  34. Noted 15
  35. Podcast Episode 216: The Tromelin Island Castaways
  36. The Body Politic
  37. Magic 4
  38. Geometry
  39. Neat 3
  40. Unquote
  41. The Duchenne Smile
  42. Unrhymed Limericks
  43. A Bird Meme
  44. Red or Black
  45. Surface Matters
  46. Podcast Episode 215: The Lieutenant Nun
  47. Black and White

August 2018

  1. On the Quiet
  2. Self-Help
  3. In a Word
  4. An Odd Result
  5. Cameo 4
  6. Self-Care
  7. Last Call
  8. Fair Enough
  9. Podcast Episode 214: The Poison Squad
  10. Feet Foremost
  11. Cosmopolitan
  12. A Wrong Turn
  13. Ba-zing
  14. Shannon’s Mouse
  15. Potential
  16. Roaming
  17. The Hypercubical Dance
  18. Conway’s Thrackle Conjecture
  19. Better Late
  20. Unquote
  21. Podcast Episode 213: Grover Cleveland’s Secret Surgery
  22. Self-Taught
  23. The Lovers of Valdaro
  24. First Across
  25. Agitato
  26. Atomic Gardening
  27. Anatomy Lesson
  28. Horse Play
  29. Finis 2
  30. The Last Ditch
  31. The Dustman’s Compliment
  32. The Forgotten Winchester
  33. Podcast Episode 212: The Lost Treasure of Cocos Island
  34. The Windsor Enigma
  35. Wildlife Management
  36. In a Word
  37. Precocious
  38. Chapter One
  39. The Telegarden
  40. Black Monday
  41. Holy Orders
  42. The Ranchers’ Split
  43. Discretion
  44. Next Up
  45. Podcast Episode 211: Cast Away on an Ice Floe
  46. Jack the Snipper
  47. Custom Baking
  48. Stuckie
  49. Unquote
  50. Swahili Time
  51. Black and White
  52. River of Gold
  53. Small Town

July 2018

  1. Trip Planning
  2. Elementary
  3. Courtesy
  4. Alone Together
  5. Drawing Sounds
  6. Detour
  7. Arrh
  8. The Right Stuff
  9. Transcendence
  10. A Trojan Cow
  11. Once in a Lifetime
  12. The Wooden Horse
  13. In a Word
  14. Containing an Arc
  15. Podcast Episode 210: Lateral Thinking Puzzles
  16. The Map of Discernment
  17. A Triangle Puzzle
  18. Planned Community
  19. City/State
  20. The Russian Prison Tapping Code
  21. Piphilology
  22. A Father’s Advice
  23. Misc 76
  24. Interference
  25. Nondelivery
  26. Lay of the Land
  27. Podcast Episode 209: Lost Off Newfoundland
  28. Peace and Quiet
  29. Vicissitude
  30. Plaudits
  31. Unquote
  32. Black and White
  33. The Congreve Clock
  34. New Math
  35. The Name-Letter Effect
  36. The Sincerest Form
  37. The Death Valley Germans
  38. Overheard
  39. Podcast Episode 208: Giving Birth to Rabbits
  40. Confidences
  41. Dueling Servilities
  42. International Relations
  43. Salute
  44. Being There
  45. Nowhere Man
  46. Migration
  47. Worldly Wise
  48. In a Word
  49. Podcast Episode 207: The Bluebelle’s Last Voyage
  50. Origins
  51. Slip Coaches

June 2018

  1. New Lands
  2. A Curious Cut
  3. Family
  4. Escalation
  5. Local Color
  6. Schwenk Dice
  7. Unquote
  8. Dedication
  9. Clergymen and Chickens
  10. Podcast Episode 206: The Sky and the Sea
  11. The Slothouber-Graatsma Puzzle
  12. No Rest
  13. An Apparition
  14. One-Man Band
  15. Black and White
  16. The Key to My Future
  17. Express
  18. Photo Finish
  19. The Way of Things
  20. Close Quarters
  21. Podcast Episode 205: The White Mouse
  22. For What It’s Worth
  23. The No-Three-in-Line Problem
  24. The Double Day
  25. Side-Eye
  26. Lost Voices
  27. The Nimm0 Property
  28. Needs Analysis
  29. Coming and Going
  30. Absent Friends
  31. False or True?
  32. Making Cases
  33. Podcast Episode 204: Mary Anning’s Fossils
  34. In a Word
  35. Five Up
  36. A Fractured Mystery
  37. The Cremona–Richmond Configuration
  38. Front and Rear
  39. Remark
  40. Good Boy
  41. Puffery
  42. “A Terrific Banquet in an Iguanodon”
  43. Talking Points
  44. Unquote
  45. Podcast Episode 203: Notes and Queries
  46. Inspiration
  47. Total Victory
  48. Commentary
  49. Pole Position

May 2018

  1. Express
  2. Black and White
  3. Zigzag
  4. Free Thinking
  5. The Blythe Intaglios
  6. “The Longest Letter in the World”
  7. Podcast Episode 202: The Rosenhan Experiment
  8. Right and Wrong
  9. Low Tech
  10. Hmm 4
  11. The Inner World
  12. R i p 9
  13. Mnemonic
  14. Unfinished
  15. In a Word
  16. Rewrites
  17. Podcast Episode 201: The Gardner Heist
  18. Stairs of Knowledge
  19. Circumstance
  20. Leaps and Bounds
  21. Progress
  22. The Empty Set
  23. Sure Enough
  24. Microbial Art
  25. Skyward
  26. A One and a Two
  27. Unquote
  28. An Early Visit
  29. Podcast Episode 200: Lateral Thinking Puzzles
  30. Late Word
  31. Ghost Failure
  32. Circles
  33. Troxler’s Fading
  34. Crisis Averted
  35. Two by Two
  36. A Private Affair
  37. Black and White
  38. The Better Man
  39. Epigram
  40. Robinson Tiles
  41. Podcast Episode 199: The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering
  42. Fair’s Fair
  43. A Moveable Feast
  44. Last Words
  45. A Prime Square
  46. A Bad Plan
  47. Time and Talk
  48. Prepared
  49. The Big Picture
  50. In a Word
  51. One Way

April 2018

  1. Short Work
  2. Podcast Episode 198: The Man Who Wouldn’t Die
  3. The Size of It
  4. Busy 3
  5. Dilemma
  6. Priorities
  7. A Cosmic Getaway
  8. Final Orders
  9. A Royal Tour
  10. Good Boy
  11. Unquote
  12. Feed Me, Seymour!
  13. Old Man River
  14. Podcast Episode 197: Alone Across the Outback
  15. “A Bird in Flight”
  16. Exercise
  17. An Oldie
  18. Expedition
  19. Intellectual Property
  20. Casa Terracota
  21. Black and White
  22. Short Work
  23. Romance at Short Notice
  24. Homage
  25. Podcast Episode 196: The Long Way Home
  26. Cold Facts
  27. Something Different
  28. Worldly Wise
  29. For What It’s Worth
  30. In a Word
  31. Nip and Tuck
  32. Perspective
  33. The Ripon Hornblower
  34. Mankindish Goodgain
  35. Drammatico
  36. Epigram
  37. Podcast Episode 195: A Case of Musical Plagiarism
  38. Decorum
  39. Shell Game
  40. The Cheshire Minstrels
  41. Personal
  42. Precocious
  43. Lament 3
  44. Misc 75
  45. Unquote
  46. Drumbeats
  47. Shop Talk
  48. Double Duty
  49. First Things First
  50. Duplicity

March 2018

  1. The F-Scale
  2. Sharp Wit
  3. Impromptu
  4. Black and White
  5. Subvick Quarban
  6. Inventory
  7. “The Sentimental Law Student”
  8. “The End of the Line”
  9. Going Places
  10. Counsel
  11. Podcast Episode 194: The Double Life of Clarence King
  12. The Hadwiger–Nelson Problem
  13. A Square Circle
  14. Applications
  15. Character Study
  16. In a Word
  17. Correspondence
  18. Diminuendo
  19. Fair Enough
  20. Triangle
  21. Unreason
  22. Podcast Episode 193: The Collyer Brothers
  23. More Theatre Reviews
  24. A Quick Walk
  25. Two by Two
  26. Unquote
  27. Road Tunes
  28. Nothing to Say
  29. A Palindromic Pan
  30. Remodeling
  31. Tech Talk
  32. Concord
  33. “Historical Reflections”
  34. Podcast Episode 192: The Winchester Diver
  35. “Singular Plurals”
  36. The Bean Machine
  37. R i p 8
  38. Total Recall
  39. Law and Order
  40. Not So Fast
  41. The Devens Literacy Test
  42. Black and White
  43. Square Deal
  44. Fwiw
  45. Podcast Episode 191: The Longest Flight
  46. International Relations
  47. The Three-Hat Problem
  48. Misc 74
  49. All God’s Creatures
  50. The Chemists’ Drinking Song
  51. Imitation Game

February 2018

  1. A Game Afoot
  2. The Burger Savant
  3. Odd Clocks
  4. Bootstraps
  5. Plea 2
  6. Podcast Episode 190: Mary Patten and the Neptune’s Car
  7. False Advertising
  8. Occupational Hazard
  9. Hadwiger’s Conjecture
  10. Freehand
  11. Spiral Tilings
  12. Failing
  13. The Lawyer’s Prayer
  14. Unquote
  15. Think Pieces
  16. In a Word
  17. Podcast Episode 189: The “Wild White Man”
  18. Do It Yourself
  19. Early Delivery
  20. Eight Lives
  21. Hybrids
  22. A Cloak
  23. The Jindo Sea Parting
  24. Black and White
  25. A Clueless Crossword
  26. Men in Aida
  27. His Mark
  28. Podcast Episode 188: The Bat Bomb
  29. Four of a Kind
  30. Special Issue
  31. A British Limerick
  32. Not Dead Yet
  33. Math Notes
  34. Substitute
  35. Sold 2
  36. Confession
  37. Cooperation
  38. A Changeable City
  39. “A Little Saga of Self-Denial”
  40. Cat Music
  41. Oh 8
  42. Breakdown
  43. Hint 2
  44. Outreach
  45. Running Cargo

January 2018

  1. Sanity and Simpson
  2. Unquote
  3. Free Air Conditioning
  4. Current Events
  5. In a Word
  6. Podcast Episode 187: A Human Being in the Bronx Zoo
  7. Fair Enough
  8. Breathing Room
  9. More Odd Fiction
  10. Equality in Death
  11. Curioser and Curioser
  12. Folds of Stone
  13. Prior Art
  14. Black and White
  15. Notice 2
  16. Borrowed Trouble
  17. Podcast Episode 186: The Children’s Blizzard
  18. Paper Chase
  19. Stopwatch Cinema
  20. Signs of the Times
  21. A Helping Fin
  22. The Machine Prayer
  23. Surf’s Up
  24. Et Tu?
  25. Mementos
  26. Bull Market
  27. Podcast Episode 185: The Man From Formosa
  28. Self-Ancestors
  29. A Triangle Calculator
  30. Theme and Variations
  31. Some Odd Words
  32. Footwork
  33. Unquote
  34. An Odd Fact
  35. The Mechanics of History
  36. Light Reading
  37. Support
  38. Hope and Change
  39. Misc 73
  40. Figures
  41. Apt
  42. Fair Play
  43. Stop and Go
  44. Intrepid
  45. In a Word
  46. Black and White
  47. One Two Three
  48. All Roads
  49. A Gettysburg Reunion
  50. Teamwork
  51. Podcast Episode 184: Lateral Thinking Puzzles

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