The Curious Engineer

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2022–2024

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December 2024

  1. Being There
  2. The Diabolical Cube
  3. In a Word
  4. “Earth”
  5. Epitaph
  6. A Long Rest
  7. The Three-Dice Problem
  8. Inventory
  9. A Banner Year
  10. Loaded
  11. Pieces of Eight
  12. Who You Know
  13. Checkless Chess
  14. The 40-Letter Paradox
  15. Lost Lessons
  16. Opaque Sets
  17. Brute Force
  18. One Last Christmas Quiz
  19. Misc 96
  20. Unfinished
  21. Oh All Right Then
  22. Unquote
  23. Zing
  24. Lost in Translation
  25. Second Thoughts
  26. Time and Chance
  27. Tidy 2
  28. In Other Words
  29. Round Numbers
  30. Harmony
  31. Another Christmas Quiz
  32. Noted 23
  33. Too Tired
  34. Crazy Talk
  35. In a Word
  36. Outwitted
  37. Renewal
  38. Error Count
  39. Two Christmas Quizzes
  40. Pointless
  41. Advance Billing
  42. 4-Gon Conclusion
  43. Pigcasso
  44. Comment
  45. An Unanswered Question
  46. Summing Up
  47. In Other News
  48. Traffic
  49. Worldly Wise
  50. Sudden Impact

November 2024

  1. Unquote
  2. Coverup
  3. “Orange”
  4. The Size of It
  5. Thought
  6. Early Adopter
  7. Pseudonyms
  8. Bedfellows
  9. Found Art
  10. Round and Square
  11. The Sermon Game
  12. Observations
  13. Homeward
  14. Reciprocity Redux
  15. Spirit
  16. In a Word
  17. Plan A
  18. Travel Literature
  19. Misc 95
  20. R i p 11
  21. On the Money
  22. The Final Touch
  23. “The Greedy Robbers”
  24. Briefly
  25. Never Mind
  26. Turn, Turn, Turn
  27. And Inventive
  28. Bullseye
  29. Busy 4
  30. Org Chart
  31. Signing Off
  32. Unquote
  33. Half Measures
  34. Bother
  35. Black and White
  36. Noted 22
  37. Arithmetic
  38. A Second Life
  39. It’s A Small World After All
  40. Post Apocalypse
  41. Moonlighting
  42. Monkey Don’t
  43. The Portuguese Fireplace
  44. Certainty

October 2024

  1. Alternate Route
  2. Dressing Up
  3. An Odd Book
  4. Wardrobe
  5. A Taxing Demand
  6. Firelight
  7. The Unknotting Problem
  8. The Bristol Bridges Walk
  9. Companion
  10. Hard to Say
  11. The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
  12. Tableau
  13. Operation Cornflakes
  14. Words and Pictures
  15. The Heist
  16. In a Word
  17. Orthography
  18. Yajilin
  19. Misc 94
  20. Degrees of Variance
  21. An Enigmatic Letter
  22. To Be Clear
  23. Ghost Leg
  24. Magic Square Hereabouts
  25. Unquote
  26. Pastiche
  27. Black and White
  28. Rule of Thumb
  29. “The Only Will Ever Written in Shorthand”
  30. In the Fold
  31. A Little Clue
  32. Also-Rans
  33. Backward and Forward
  34. A Beautiful Relic
  35. Things to Come
  36. Our Best Friend
  37. Decisions
  38. Fore 8
  39. Point to Point
  40. “The Farmer’s Life”
  41. Commentary
  42. In a Word
  43. Long Distance
  44. Star Turn
  45. Relative
  46. Smart Money
  47. Two Dire Punishments
  48. All Right Then
  49. Unquote
  50. Four Glasses
  51. Cameo 6
  52. Noted 21

September 2024

  1. Band Practice
  2. Passing Through
  3. Flat Devotion
  4. A Pi Diet
  5. “Through the Looking-Glass”
  6. Fish Story
  7. Topsy Turvy
  8. A Belt Font
  9. The Sussman Anomaly
  10. Entre Nous
  11. All the Uses of This World
  12. In a Word
  13. The Sandwheel
  14. Matriarch
  15. Portal Painting
  16. Breathing Exercises
  17. Bootstraps
  18. Invisible Artworks
  19. The Glass Rod Problem
  20. Unquote
  21. The Desk Calendar
  22. “The Last Bard of Dixie”
  23. Early Arrival
  24. Perfect Numbers
  25. Half Measures
  26. Canting Arms
  27. Spelling Aid
  28. Hermae
  29. “A Statesman”
  30. Inspiration
  31. Oh 13
  32. New Color
  33. Math Notes
  34. Yaren
  35. In a Word
  36. Penmanship
  37. Chemical Pi
  38. Convocation
  39. Limerick
  40. Bad News
  41. Vernacular
  42. Unquote
  43. Why Not?
  44. Topsy Turvy
  45. Sir Hilary’s Prayer
  46. Hard of Hearing
  47. The Right Track
  48. The Territory
  49. Black and White

August 2024

  1. High and Dry
  2. Board Walk
  3. Misc 93
  4. A Fistful of Scrawlers
  5. Continuity
  6. Sousselier’s Problem
  7. Illumination
  8. Peak to Peak
  9. Self-Described
  10. Doppelgänger
  11. An Alphageomagic Square
  12. In a Word
  13. Floating Faster
  14. Off Schedule
  15. Evidence
  16. Ironically Apt
  17. Catastrophe
  18. Unquote
  19. Nontransitive Tennis
  20. Tense Trouble
  21. Discernment
  22. To the Point
  23. Pithy
  24. Roll Call
  25. Shorthand
  26. Sharp Practice
  27. Stature
  28. Cube Route
  29. Reflections
  30. Liberty
  31. Step by Step
  32. Temper
  33. Misc 92
  34. All Together Now
  35. In a Word
  36. The Champ
  37. Dis-Connected
  38. Keeping Up
  39. Hunting
  40. Footwork
  41. Zoology
  42. Unquote
  43. “Jumpin’ Yuccy”
  44. “12 Years Without a Birthday”
  45. Notice 4
  46. Term Limits
  47. “A Terrible Infant”
  48. Hail
  49. Observations

July 2024

  1. Subtext
  2. Arabella’s Spider Web
  3. The Dublin Whiskey Fire
  4. To Whom It May Concern
  5. Tangle
  6. Good News
  7. “Postal Cats”
  8. The Birthday Square
  9. Exchange
  10. Reader Error
  11. The Mozart Café Problem
  12. In a Word
  13. Expedient
  14. “Described in a Word”
  15. Engaged
  16. Prolific
  17. Prince Rupert’s Cube
  18. Unquote
  19. Botulism
  20. Ordnance
  21. Inside Out
  22. Food for Thought
  23. Black and White
  24. Double Duty
  25. Cryptarithm
  26. Misc 91
  27. Behindhand
  28. Unusual Biological Names
  29. History Lesson
  30. The Earth-Moon Problem
  31. The Size of It
  32. The Broxburn Icicle
  33. In a Word
  34. Return Engagement
  35. Art Appreciation
  36. Alice’s Number
  37. Moment
  38. Close Reading
  39. Rebus 2
  40. Unquote
  41. Making the Case
  42. The Immortal Bridge
  43. Endless Variety
  44. Nighttide
  45. Hope Springs Eternal
  46. Worldly Wise
  47. Getting There

June 2024

  1. Resource
  2. Roll Play
  3. In a Word
  4. Fogbound
  5. Hazard
  6. Andy
  7. Tower Records
  8. Strain’d
  9. Roommates
  10. First Impressions
  11. “Unified Field Theory”
  12. Accord 2
  13. Unquote
  14. A Story Without Words
  15. Brave New World
  16. Cotes’ Theorem
  17. A Tour of England
  18. True Love
  19. R i p 10
  20. Straightforward
  21. The Dim Effect
  22. Race to the Bottom
  23. In a Word
  24. Watercolor
  25. Seasick
  26. Measure for Measure
  27. Cameo 5
  28. Silicon Affinity
  29. Startup Costs
  30. Inventory Control
  31. Liberty
  32. Capacity
  33. Unquote
  34. Helmet Crash
  35. Feats
  36. Double Duty
  37. Assimilation
  38. Shining Sea
  39. Self-Seeking
  40. The Biter Bit
  41. Catch 22
  42. Side Line
  43. Ease of Use
  44. Capsized
  45. A Twist
  46. In a Word
  47. Full Service

May 2024

  1. Footwork
  2. “Moral Thermometers”
  3. Reinvention
  4. Anatomy
  5. Jukebox Groceries
  6. Maxim
  7. Hjelmslev’s Theorem
  8. Unquote
  9. Headlong
  10. Misc 90
  11. Melodic Puns
  12. Day Tripper
  13. Pith 2
  14. Simple Enough
  15. Oh 12
  16. Concise
  17. Line of Thought
  18. Pep Talk
  19. Object Lesson
  20. In a Word
  21. Beyond the Call
  22. An Odd Request
  23. Turnabout
  24. Matter
  25. Inventory
  26. The King’s Salary
  27. Piece Work
  28. Pledge
  29. Inside Job
  30. Dead End
  31. Fair Play
  32. Mirror Numbers
  33. Unquote
  34. Fancy That
  35. “Today’s Work, Today’s Finish”
  36. Head Start
  37. First Flight
  38. Stops and Starts
  39. Art Appreciation
  40. The Spool Paradox
  41. Trompe L’Oeil
  42. In a Word
  43. The Chapel Oak
  44. Asked and Answered
  45. Empty Promises
  46. Voice Flowers
  47. Regularity
  48. And So On
  49. Letter Delivery
  50. A High Purpose
  51. Incoming
  52. Misc 89

April 2024

  1. Leapfrog
  2. All Right
  3. Javelin
  4. Spotted
  5. Unquote
  6. No Play Zone
  7. A Polyhex Square
  8. Kinship
  9. Amalgamation
  10. Endless Love
  11. Regrets
  12. A Sharp
  13. The Great Michigan Pizza Funeral
  14. Express
  15. In a Word
  16. “A Whisky Puzzle”
  17. View
  18. Namesakes
  19. Better Safe
  20. Protocol
  21. Pandigital Products
  22. Do It Yourself
  23. Constitutional Crisis
  24. Agreed
  25. Black and White
  26. Rebuke
  27. Made to Order
  28. The Electra Paradox
  29. Good for the Gander
  30. Fore 7
  31. Unquote
  32. Outcry
  33. All’s One for That
  34. General Delivery
  35. Music Space
  36. Efficient
  37. Empty Vessel
  38. The Peirce-Putnam Paradox
  39. Illumination
  40. Win Count
  41. Keep Away
  42. Insight
  43. “Three Threes Are Ten”
  44. Fair and Square
  45. Memorial
  46. The Stroke
  47. “Canopus”
  48. In a Word
  49. A Remarkable Injury
  50. Elocution
  51. The Sleeping Cupid
  52. The Drunkard’s Paradox

March 2024

  1. Spuds Illustrated
  2. Address
  3. Telephone
  4. Turns of Phrase
  5. After You
  6. Riposte
  7. Brute Nature
  8. Sideways Music
  9. Remembrance
  10. Counting Up
  11. Visionary
  12. Specialist
  13. Unquote
  14. Flight
  15. Authority
  16. Mass Transit
  17. Anagram
  18. Bequest
  19. “Knight, With Umbrella”
  20. Moonlighting
  21. Cause and Effect
  22. Outsider Art
  23. In a Word
  24. Top Secret
  25. Eight Flights
  26. The Augsburg Book of Miracles
  27. Foremost
  28. Viewpoint
  29. Magic 7
  30. Cistercian Numerals
  31. To Have and to Hold
  32. Aviculture
  33. Unquote
  34. Three by Three
  35. Mnemonic
  36. Limerick
  37. Maverick
  38. Front Matter
  39. A Typographical Banknote
  40. “The Twenty-Four Monks”
  41. “I Loved Thee”
  42. Fact and Fiction
  43. Guardian Angel
  44. All’s Fair
  45. In a Word
  46. Target Practice
  47. Migration
  48. Disinformation
  49. Shop Talk

February 2024

  1. Lament 4
  2. Chronological Order
  3. “Non Cogitant, Ergo Non Sunt”
  4. The Hollow Face Illusion
  5. Tact 2
  6. Local News
  7. Love and War
  8. Reconnaissance
  9. “The Thrift of Strength”
  10. Kürschák’s Tile
  11. “Her Face”
  12. Unquote
  13. “A Mind-Bogglingly Slow Job”
  14. Decalogue
  15. Stop 5
  16. Dead Letter
  17. Rise of the Machines
  18. Sweet Dreams
  19. Also-Ran
  20. “He Who Praises Everybody Praises Nobody”
  21. Plain Enough
  22. Point of Interest
  23. In a Word
  24. Revolution
  25. A Hand for All Seasons
  26. A Fuss Budget
  27. Strähle’s Construction
  28. The Center
  29. Getting There
  30. Vast and Furious
  31. Hot Air
  32. For What It’s Worth
  33. “A Sea Voyage on Wheels”
  34. The Four Oaks Puzzle
  35. Unquote
  36. “Dispatch Is the Soul of Business”
  37. Which Witch?
  38. A Boomerang Sequence
  39. Slacker
  40. Three Hats
  41. Limerick
  42. “Pythagoras’ Classical Problem”
  43. Swan Upping
  44. Looking On
  45. Misc 88
  46. Card Algebra
  47. Brush Work

January 2024

  1. Mixed Motives
  2. In a Word
  3. War and Peace
  4. Einstein’s Sink
  5. Arcaicam Esperantom
  6. Fore 6
  7. Second Thoughts
  8. Whoa
  9. Self-Reference
  10. Caesura
  11. Niven’s Laws
  12. Wallflower
  13. A Literary Voyage
  14. Endorsement
  15. Thinking Big
  16. Right Enough
  17. Diy 8
  18. Unquote
  19. Coming and Going
  20. Hospitality
  21. Economy
  22. Lexicon
  23. Balancing Act
  24. Tilt 5
  25. Still Life
  26. Wiio’s Laws
  27. In a Word
  28. No Time Like the Present
  29. “The House-Dog’s Grave”
  30. Signifying Nothing
  31. Trompe L’oeil
  32. The Unexpected Gift
  33. The Denomination Effect
  34. Changing Times
  35. RSS Quiz
  36. Turnabout
  37. Time’s Up
  38. Looking Around
  39. Unquote
  40. Relative
  41. “Love Cools Quickly”
  42. Working Out
  43. Paperwork
  44. Deluge
  45. Roll Call
  46. Remote Romance
  47. Twice True
  48. Humiliation
  49. Small World
  50. Practical Philosophy

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December 2023

  1. Two for One
  2. Bad News
  3. Tally Sticks
  4. In a Word
  5. All Relative
  6. Mane Routine
  7. Easy Street
  8. The Werewolf of Bedburg
  9. The Three Cups Problem
  10. Protocol
  11. A Christmas Puzzle
  12. “Sonnet With a Different Letter at the End of Every Line”
  13. On the Wing
  14. Also-Ran
  15. Unquote
  16. Fitting
  17. “The Staircase Race”
  18. Hitchcock’s Bomb Theory
  19. Short Work
  20. Long Haul
  21. Elementary
  22. Signifying Nothing
  23. Changes
  24. Kempe’s Jig
  25. To the Point
  26. Math Notes
  27. Action at a Distance
  28. Special Circumstances
  29. Real Estate
  30. Euphemism
  31. Short Order
  32. Dunbar’s Number
  33. In a Word
  34. Smell Test
  35. Round Plenty
  36. Footwork
  37. Not Guilty
  38. “A Man of Principle”
  39. Hand Talk
  40. Circumstance
  41. Higher Things
  42. Man of the Hour
  43. The Machine
  44. Squaring Words
  45. Unquote
  46. Limericks
  47. Brown Study
  48. For the Record
  49. The Female Stranger
  50. “Mad Wife & Farmer”
  51. Second Thoughts

November 2023

  1. “Ideas Too Are a Life and a World”
  2. Dressing Old Words New
  3. A Place for Everything
  4. Ethic
  5. A Puzzle Forest
  6. The Flying Train
  7. Perspective
  8. Cornered
  9. “The Lawyer; The Client”
  10. Eponym
  11. Security
  12. In a Word
  13. A Self-Tiling Tile Set
  14. Diy 7
  15. How Many Swaps?
  16. The Motte-and-Bailey Fallacy
  17. Keith Numbers
  18. Adrift 3
  19. Cutup
  20. Optical Illusions: Rings
  21. Profile
  22. A Last Performance
  23. Stone Free
  24. Worldly Wisdom
  25. 101
  26. Not Available
  27. Brotherhood
  28. Google Dearth
  29. Noted 20
  30. A Cool Journey
  31. Catch
  32. A Tangle
  33. New Markets
  34. Comment
  35. Nonsense Cookery
  36. Crash Course
  37. “Stock-Breeding”
  38. Enterprise
  39. A Self-Descriptive Crossword Puzzle
  40. Inspiration
  41. Insight
  42. Recombination
  43. Good for the Gander
  44. Interlopers
  45. Desire for a Monument
  46. Snow Manipulation
  47. In a Word
  48. Cosmopolitan
  49. Man of the World
  50. Misc 87

October 2023

  1. Bootstraps
  2. Star Turn
  3. Unquote
  4. Some Enchanted Evening
  5. Outsiders
  6. Signature
  7. “The Unlucky Hatter”
  8. Private Collection
  9. Skill
  10. Round Numbers
  11. The Unheard Islander
  12. The Region Beta Paradox
  13. The Six Submarines
  14. Boo 10
  15. All Together Now
  16. Renewal
  17. Poser 5
  18. Impromptu
  19. Stareway
  20. “Prisons for Animals”
  21. Another World
  22. Query 5
  23. Chain Reaction
  24. More Self-Description
  25. Thinking Ahead
  26. The Aberdour Heroine
  27. Hex Wrench
  28. True and False
  29. In a Word
  30. A Parabolic Calculator
  31. North and South
  32. Reciprocation
  33. Correspondence
  34. Notice 3
  35. Time Tables
  36. “English as She Is Pronounced”
  37. A New Dawn
  38. No Sale
  39. Earthshapes
  40. Bulverism
  41. Membership
  42. “A Matter of Opinion”
  43. A Path-Making Game
  44. Exchange
  45. A Panmagic Geomagic Square
  46. The Bebington Puzzle Stones
  47. “Fifty-Seven to Nothing”
  48. A Fateful Choice
  49. The Ta Prohm Stegosaur
  50. Simple
  51. Views

September 2023

  1. Ground Truth
  2. Comment
  3. The Epsom Salts Monorail
  4. Caliban’s Will
  5. Dancing the Slaves
  6. Unquote
  7. Planned Forgiveness
  8. “An Elevation Puzzle”
  9. “Auld Saws Speak Truth”
  10. Nice Try
  11. “Elessdé”
  12. Roll Call
  13. Robinsonades
  14. Brave New World
  15. In a Word
  16. Never Mind
  17. Peak Performance
  18. Coming and Going
  19. For What It’s Worth
  20. Elevenses
  21. Four-Mile Fall
  22. Play On
  23. Missed Connections
  24. The Book of Truth
  25. Fore and Aft
  26. Pen and Ink
  27. Scratch
  28. Dark Days
  29. Self-Reports
  30. Succinct
  31. Focus Group
  32. Exeunt 3
  33. A Late Solution
  34. North Talk
  35. Propriety
  36. The Size of It
  37. Unquote
  38. Illustration
  39. Uneasy Crossing
  40. Pet Phrases
  41. “The Correct Way to Speak Bristol”
  42. Packing a Box
  43. Pyrrho’s Pig

August 2023

  1. In a Word
  2. Prospect
  3. Inventory
  4. End of Hiatus

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September 2022

  1. Geomagic

August 2022

  1. Hiatus
  2. Poser 4
  3. Second Thoughts
  4. Black and White
  5. The Chain Test
  6. The Feynman Sprinkler
  7. Unanswered
  8. “The Connection”
  9. Living Memory
  10. Math Notes
  11. Music of the Spheres
  12. Kettle Logic
  13. More Dream Poetry
  14. The Schienenzeppelin
  15. Arrogance
  16. The Little People
  17. Dues Process
  18. Succinct
  19. A Confusing Census
  20. You Are There
  21. “Pussy and the Mouse”
  22. Oh Well
  23. The Frog Battery
  24. Maps and Symbols
  25. Vertigo
  26. Carpe Diem
  27. A Shocking Experience
  28. Homecoming
  29. Retribution
  30. The Social Whirl
  31. Primate Wanted
  32. Alterations
  33. Portrait
  34. Early Work
  35. A Stretch
  36. The Missing Man
  37. Mind Games
  38. Note 3
  39. Hateful Patients
  40. “The Prerogative of Might”
  41. A New Perspective
  42. “Counting the Wounded”
  43. Flying Ash
  44. Unquote
  45. Misfits

July 2022

  1. Spun Wool
  2. Child Abuse
  3. The 7-11 Problem
  4. The Floating Water Bridge
  5. Jam Tomorrow
  6. No Exit
  7. Just So
  8. Coincidence
  9. Insight
  10. Paperwork
  11. Big Finish
  12. The Oxen Railroad
  13. Scrutiny
  14. Cloud Nine
  15. Multimedia
  16. Downgrade
  17. Words and Numbers
  18. Romance Language
  19. In a Word
  20. Revelation
  21. A Forgotten Face
  22. Ascendant
  23. Bad Seafood
  24. Double Trouble
  25. Late 2
  26. Löb’s Paradox
  27. Black and White
  28. Unquote
  29. Outreach
  30. Proof Without Words
  31. Rotating Office
  32. In a Word
  33. Night Life
  34. Last Words
  35. Toeholds
  36. Who’s Who
  37. The Watlington White Mark
  38. Blind Leading
  39. A Matter of Degree
  40. Al Fresco
  41. Readouts Revisited
  42. Double Talk
  43. Tilt 4
  44. Minor Threat
  45. Small World

June 2022

  1. Points and Pauses
  2. Three for Three
  3. Reputation
  4. Early Times
  5. An Early Start
  6. Asides
  7. Black and White
  8. Clairvoyance
  9. Stone-Faced
  10. Double Duty
  11. Skyfall
  12. Unquote
  13. For the Record
  14. Stoicisms
  15. In a Word
  16. Respects
  17. Traction
  18. Seeking
  19. Decisions
  20. The Brautigan Library
  21. Dependent Claws
  22. Illumination
  23. Back Matter
  24. A Peruvian Puzzle
  25. Two Trains
  26. A Little Decorating
  27. Square Meal
  28. The Backward Club
  29. Self-Sacrifice
  30. The Robben Island Notebooks
  31. Misc 86
  32. His Image
  33. The Mystery Tombstone
  34. Reciprocity
  35. “Valentine by a Telegraph Clerk”
  36. Ambition
  37. Black and White
  38. Sound Sense
  39. Lip Service
  40. Progress
  41. When in Rome …
  42. Collared
  43. Unquote
  44. Classic
  45. In a Word
  46. Coming and Going

May 2022

  1. Face Value
  2. Symmetry
  3. “Hiawatha’s Photographing”
  4. Double Magic
  5. Early Days
  6. The Bicycle Puzzle
  7. Southern Exposure
  8. Mixed Emotions
  9. Calculation
  10. The Mindset List
  11. Tursiops Economicus
  12. The Chameleon Vine
  13. Riddle 4
  14. “Extra Magic” Realized
  15. Going Home
  16. The Bottom Line
  17. Birds of a Feather
  18. Napkin Proof
  19. Two-Step
  20. “The Pavior”
  21. The Bar Problem
  22. Unquote
  23. Readouts
  24. In a Word
  25. Short-Timer
  26. All Covered
  27. Gödel’s Loophole
  28. Round Numbers
  29. Deep Thinking
  30. Left or Right?
  31. Face to Face
  32. Missive
  33. Glass Town
  34. Self-Regard
  35. The Rousham Eyecatcher
  36. An Odd Bond
  37. Enterprise
  38. Staffing
  39. Decalogue
  40. Afield
  41. Familiarity
  42. Hazards
  43. Sea Rules
  44. Limited Resources
  45. Adventures in Publishing
  46. Bullseye

April 2022

  1. Illumination
  2. Black and White
  3. Perspective
  4. Can Do
  5. Flight and Pursuit
  6. Looking Ahead
  7. The Martians
  8. Stage Whiskers
  9. Observations
  10. Weather Station Kurt
  11. Unquote
  12. Water Music
  13. In a Word
  14. Perspectives
  15. Signing Off
  16. “The Artist’s Secret”
  17. Dead Letters
  18. An Observant Anthropologist
  19. Countless
  20. Baltimorese
  21. The Octave Illusion
  22. Filial Duty
  23. Three Domains
  24. Buttoned Up
  25. Procrustes
  26. Flashes
  27. “Coal Is Decayed Vegetarians”
  28. Never Mind
  29. No Time Like …
  30. Unable Was I
  31. All Right Then
  32. Getting Started
  33. Los Alamos Chess
  34. Open and Shut
  35. Two Weighings
  36. Mephistopheles and Margaretta
  37. Wings of Song
  38. Evolved Antennas
  39. Loss 2
  40. All in the Family
  41. Introspection
  42. A Late Mystery
  43. Unquote
  44. Good Luck!
  45. In a Word
  46. Has Beens
  47. The Gettysburg Gun
  48. Where Did Nigel Go?
  49. About Time

March 2022

  1. Trainspotting
  2. Directions
  3. Triples
  4. Tale Spinner
  5. Black and White
  6. More Magic
  7. Unknowns
  8. Say It With Flowers
  9. Pillow Verse
  10. Line Work
  11. Unquote
  12. Evolution Without Life
  13. Moving Up
  14. “Busy as a Fiddler’s Elbow”
  15. On The Ice
  16. Menagerie
  17. Looking Ahead
  18. Devotion
  19. Remaking the World
  20. Going in Style
  21. Suspense
  22. The Value of an Education
  23. A Double Man
  24. Male Run
  25. Exploring Made Easy
  26. In a Word
  27. First Things Last
  28. Reunited
  29. Plowshares
  30. Card Catalog
  31. Unquote
  32. A Century-Old Ghost
  33. I, Libertine
  34. Doing and Saying
  35. Worldly Wisdom
  36. A Word for Everything
  37. Cavalry
  38. The Seven-Spot Problem
  39. Lightning Strikes
  40. Love Triangle
  41. Harmony
  42. Van Schooten’s Theorem
  43. The National Razor
  44. Extra-ordinary Magic
  45. Q&A
  46. The Beard Tax
  47. Once and for All
  48. Note Worthy
  49. The More the Merrier
  50. The Bigger They Are
  51. Shortcut
  52. Short-Timers

February 2022

  1. A Late Night
  2. The Poverty Map
  3. In a Word
  4. Silent Warning
  5. A Cheap Pain Reliever
  6. A Chorus of Versus
  7. A Look Ahead
  8. Setting the Date
  9. Unquote
  10. In Brief
  11. Long Haul
  12. A Modest Proposal
  13. Black and White
  14. Plateau’s Laws
  15. Encore 3
  16. First Things First
  17. The Blind Leading
  18. An Overlooked Death
  19. Looking the Part
  20. Armageddon
  21. Sweet Mystery of Life
  22. The “Dicta Boelcke”
  23. Better Days
  24. To the Life
  25. The Wobbler
  26. The Moses Illusion
  27. Handiwork
  28. Fair Enough
  29. Second Life
  30. Short Notice
  31. A Company of Soldiers
  32. An Idea Grows
  33. Noted 19
  34. The Telharmonium
  35. Casper the Commuting Cat
  36. In a Word
  37. Cribbage
  38. Nullius in Bonis
  39. Unquote
  40. noitaripsnI
  41. Onward
  42. Table Talents
  43. Comment
  44. The Lamppost Trick
  45. Foreign Food
  46. Good Boy

January 2022

  1. Black and White
  2. Up and Up
  3. The Conroy Virtus
  4. Case Closed
  5. A Wand’ring Minstrel
  6. A Miserable Vacation
  7. Pieces of Pi
  8. Everything Must Go
  9. Alphametic
  10. Extra Magic
  11. Ink
  12. A New World
  13. Autopilot
  14. Reverse Angle
  15. Titan Indeed
  16. “A Vignette”
  17. Footgear
  18. The Kopp–Etchells Effect
  19. The Einstellung Effect
  20. The Golden Arrowhead
  21. Cheers 2
  22. Trompe-L’œil
  23. In a Word
  24. Diy 6
  25. Last Word
  26. Top Dog
  27. Insight
  28. For Short
  29. Memorial
  30. Efficiency
  31. “She Was as Cute as a Washtub”
  32. Over There
  33. Unquote
  34. Big Man on Campus
  35. Black and White
  36. Object Lesson
  37. While You Were Out
  38. The Hanging Coffins of Sagada
  39. Note 2
  40. Insights
  41. Aha
  42. Kjeragbolten
  43. Contact at a Distance
  44. Do Your Best
  45. Proof
  46. “Money Is Not Advice”
  47. Imagination
  48. A Simple Plan

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