https://theindie500.com/ The Indie 500 crossword tournament is happening for a third consecutive year and we couldn't be more excited! The tournament will once again be held on a late-spring Saturday afternoon on the GWU campus in Washington, D.C., and as always we have an all-star roster of crossword constructors lined up to create original and clever puzzles for the event. The theme of this year's tournament is TIME, which really just means that while we'll try to make the tournament and meta puzzles vaguely time-themed, we just have an excuse to make awful time-related puns. We hope that doesn't tick you off (that's literally the best one we could think of). Registration for the tournament is NOW OPEN. If you can't make it to the tournament, we are happy to register you in our Solve-at-Home division. We'll email you copies of all of the tournament puzzles and, if you choose to send back your completed grids and solving times, we'll score your puzzles just as we do for in-person contestants. Also, we are once again preparing a suite of interconnected meta puzzles to raise hype and funds for the tournament, and are taking pre-orders for those puzzles currently. And lastly, we are practically giving away packets of past tournament puzzles for the low price of $5 each. Be sure to head over to the REGISTER page to order any of these items.

The 2017 UK Sudoku Championship will take place over the weekend of Friday 9th to Mon 12th June 2017. The 2017 UK Puzzle Championship will be held 2 weeks later, Fri 23rd to Mon 26th June 2017. Both championships will take place online, on this website, via the contests page (http://www.ukpuzzles.org/contests.php) Exact duration (usually 2 - 2.5 hrs) and start/end times will be posted nearer the time. You may commence at a time convenient to yourself within the allotted time. The puzzles will be available as a PDF, which you will need to print out and solve. You will then need to enter the requested answer keys from your solution into the contest page. You will need to be logged in to this website (forum) to participate. (Simple registration is free) Past championships are available at the above contests page.

https://www.facebook.com/events/729457797216271/ Panic Factory - Escape Rooms and Room Escape Divas partner with York-Durham Heritage Railway to create a live Escape Event on a two hour rail trip. For the first time in North America.. An escape event not to be missed.. A train in motion... An unexpected turn of events... Your adventure awaits All aboard!! 2 hours to Terminus!

http://www.puzzledpint.com Puzzled Pint is a social puzzle solving event which happens on the second Tuesday of every month in locations around the world! For the current list of PP cities, visit our web site: The Friday before each event, we post a location puzzle to this web site. The solution to that puzzle will lead you to a local pub/bar/restaurant in your city. Hints will be available here on the site, and you can also e-mail us with questions. On the night of the event, show up at the pub and we'll have more puzzles for you to solve while you enjoy drinks and food. Most teams take between 30 minutes and 2 hours to solve a typical puzzle set. "Game Control" will be on hand to give hints and verify answers. Standings will be posted every month, but the goal of Puzzled Pint is for everyone to have fun! We welcome your thoughts on how to improve future events. Use the feedback link on this web site, find us on Facebook or Twitter, or join our announcements mailing list for more information. Twitter: http://twitter.com/@puzzledpint Facebook: http://fb.com/puzzledpint Announcements mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/puzzled-pint We hope to see you at the bar soon!

The 2017 UK Sudoku Championship will take place over the weekend of Friday 9th to Mon 12th June 2017. The 2017 UK Puzzle Championship will be held 2 weeks later, Fri 23rd to Mon 26th June 2017. Both championships will take place online, on this website, via the contests page (http://www.ukpuzzles.org/contests.php) Exact duration (usually 2 - 2.5 hrs) and start/end times will be posted nearer the time. You may commence at a time convenient to yourself within the allotted time. The puzzles will be available as a PDF, which you will need to print out and solve. You will then need to enter the requested answer keys from your solution into the contest page. You will need to be logged in to this website (forum) to participate. (Simple registration is free) Past championships are available at the above contests page.

http://www.mastermindhunts.com/mastermind-hunt-sacramento Think Fast. Play Together. Have Fun. For 2017, Mastermind is bringing you a profusion of puzzles to both challenge and amuse! Bring your wits, a spirit of adventure, and your brainiest friends and family members. Mark your calendar for the morning of Saturday, June 24, and put the word out to your team. For this year as ever: Your mission is to assemble a team of family and friends, then use your collective brainpower to solve fun and challenging clues leading to landmarks, businesses, and secret locations from Sacramento's past and present. Bring your wits, creativity and a spirit of adventure.

http://con.puzzlers.org/beacon It's a four-day convention where many of the most puzzle-mad people in the world gather. Most of them are members of the National Puzzlers' League, the world's oldest puzzlers' organization. As members of this nonprofit organization, we've been solving puzzles nonstop since 1883. (Well, not the same people. But you get the idea.) You'll see dozens of new puzzle types debuted at the convention. You'll play in a team-based puzzle-solving extravaganza and test your skill in a solving contest of wordplay puzzles. You'll play Jeopardy! and charades and many other games in ways you've never thought possible. You'll hear our program director WILLz and other famous puzzlers speak. You'll tour the city with your eyes wide open for clues. You'll constantly talk about puzzles. You might never sleep. As member Mosayc wrote in his post on Wired Magazine's Decode blog: "the annual conventions are lively and entertaining, deftly combining good conversation and puzzle-solving ... Sleep, you'll notice, is not on the agenda. There are 361 other days in the year for that sort of thing." And you will meet the best friends you'll ever have. Going to an NPL convention was the first time many of us met people from all over the world who were just like us. As longtime member Eric put it, "This is where the people from your home planet are." You don't have to be a member of the NPL to attend the convention. In fact, many people first learn about the NPL by showing up at the convention when we're in their home city (we were in Salt Lake City, Utah last year and we'll be in Milwaukee, Wisconsin next year), and then decided to join. No, you don't have to join afterwards either, but you may find you can't help yourself (it's only $23 a year).

http://www.sgpuzzlehunt.com/ A puzzling incident. A perplexing disappearance. An enigmatic problem. The clues have been gathered, but I will need a team of puzzle solvers to help me this time. Will you join me to solve this baffling mystery?