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Site News:

September 2024

Updates to many Legacy and Commander Magic Decks, and the remaining 6 puzzle solutions from #Enigmarch 2024! With that, all puzzle solutions are now available on the site! 🎉

Next planned updates:

  • Overall puzzle statistics page (per-puzzle stats continue to live on the solution guide)
  • Legacy deck guidance for the remaining 11 decks of the Battlebox.
  • More blogposts! I am thinking of putting out a few in December focused on 2024 in retrospective.
  • New Recipes / updates to Dumpling Academy
  • Investigating infrastructure enhancements so that dynamic content (e.g. blogs, puzzle answers, magic decks) load quicker if they haven't been updated.
  • Perhaps something new...?

There isn't a planned time for all of these items, nor a specified order, but wanted to give an update as it has been a few months!

May 2024

Eight more solutions for #Enigmarch 2024 are now available, hoping to add the final six in June, before some travel for the year!

April 2024

While I was hoping to get solutions for all of this year's puzzles up this month, I did finally get through all of 2023's, and about half of 2024. Take a look if you don't mind spoilers!

March 2024

Happy #Enigmarch! Each day I'll be adding a new puzzle from the inspirational prompts posted on the Enigmarch website.

Additionally the solution for the corresponding day will be added to #Enigmarch 2023!

February 29, 2024

Continuing our magic mood one month more! A new commander deck (K'rrik), and a re-imagining of the colorless deck as ideas had stalled.

January 28, 2024

End of the month update, 6 new puzzle solutions! I am currently planning to release the solutions for each day of #Enigmarch 2023 with the puzzle for this years challenge. If I can stick to that plan, almost every puzzle on the site will have a solution available!

January 15, 2024

Continuing our magic mood going coming into 2024, A new commander deck (shrines) and new legacy deck (initiative) appear along with a finalization of the long "under construction" Windgrace.

Additionally, I'm continuing the slow-burn of releasing puzzle answers with one more! I have released many music-themed puzzles, but this one was one of the first where I really loved the idea, and tried to force it to work. If you never tried solving it and have no interest, check out the solution and see if you would have found it interesting!

December 31, 2023

Happy New Year!

Minor changes to some magic related content for now. The 'guidance' section of some existing magic sections are also going to be re-written in the near future. This should better align with what they are meant to be (my thoughts on the deck, interesting synergies) rather than explicit matchup instructions, or other knowledge which can go stale (and which currently very much is).

December 2, 2023

A LONG break! More puzzle answers are still coming Soon™ (I promise), but for now the first speed puzzle for my site, and themed around speed climbing to boot!

June 14, 2023

A long break! Puzzle answers are still coming Soon™, but for now updated some magic decks in the meantime.

April 24, 2023

Recipes have moved to Dumpling Academy, my second website.

April 23, 2023

Still working on more features and better functionality here, but the main recipes page can now be populated with the contents of our shared recipe folder, and has rudimentary filtering based on tags.

April 18, 2023

  • Incoming support: Recipes

Extending the blog structure to allow for Kathy's recipes to start filling that section of the site. More details TBD, but for now, direct links work, but they aren't yet searchable.

April 9, 2023

Nothing glamourous today. Moving site updates older than a few months to their own page, officially adding a privacy policy considering the stats feature relies on a user Id, and fixing some bugs.

April 8, 2023

  • New feature: Puzzle Stats!

Solution guides are still on their way, but was more motivated to work on something else right away. The answer checker will now keep statistics about number of attempts and incorrect guesses globally! For puzzles that have a solution guide available, these stats are now showcased at the top of that page. Check out the Tutorial puzzle for an example.

March 2023

Happy #Enigmarch! Each day I'll be adding a new puzzle from the inspirational prompts posted on the EnigmarchHQ twitter.

February 25, 2023

Section for conference talks / publications added.

A new puzzle has been added! Right before #Enigmarch as well (where I plan to add 31 puzzles over 31 days). This puzzle is the implementation of an idea I have had for a long time, with heavy inspiration from a particularly wonderful MIT Mysteryhunt puzzle from 2020.

January 28, 2023

While we are still over a month away from March, I set up some of the scaffolding for the puzzles to come!

Additionally, made some caching, storage, and timeout related updates to the site to (hopefully) allow things to load quicker, more reliably, and using less browser resources.

See even older site updates here