Patrick Blindauer’s 2009 Holiday Puzzlefest
This whole Kickstarter.com thing is really grabbing the puzzle world. Eric Berlin did a fantastic suite of puzzles last month, and funded the whole project through Kickstarter. Now Patrick Blindauer has put forth his game plan.
Patrick has been making some of the most fun and surprising puzzles in recent years, and I’m certainly eager to see this big project of his get underway. If that widget above doesn’t link you to Patrick’s project page, try this instead.
Here’s how Patrick’s got this set up, if I understand it correctly. Throughout October, he’s calling for pledges toward his ultimate financial goal of $2,000. Five bucks gets you a copy of the puzzles (PDF format). Thirty dollars gets that plus two of Patrick’s puzzlebooks. Pledge $200, and you get a customized puzzle by Patrick. And the grad prize, if you win, is either $290 or your entry fee to the 2010 ACPT (whichever you prefer).
I can’t recommend this highly enough. The puzzles are bound to be stellar, and I absolutely love these sorts of multi-puzzle, meta-puzzle sets. (As a matter of fact, I’m working on one of my own right now!)
Enjoy it, everyone… I know I will!
