SnoutCast #211: Anna McCleary

Continuing our conversations with some of the women behind Puzzled Pint, this month we talk to Anna McCleary in Chicago! (Sorry about the audio weirdness toward the end of the show. I blame Skype and/or Microsoft.)

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Show length: 41:53
File size: 38.3MB

Stuff and things:

• DASH
• Shinteki Field Trip: Disneyland 2014
• Takenoko
• Flash Point: Fire Rescue
• Cards Against Humanity (and their "Holiday Bullshit")
• Bohnanza

What Else?

• Dan Egnor's Puzzle Hunt Calendar
• Rich Bragg and company's ClueKeeper
• You can still get in on JoCo Cruise Crazy 5!

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Music: instrumentals from "Code Monkey" and "I Crush Everything" by Jonathan Coulton

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I had a great Memorial Day weekend

As shown in these spoiler-free photos, and one video:


http://goo.gl/FtyEY7

DeeAnn and I traveled to the Bay Area to visit friends and participate in a few different puzzle-hunt-ish events, including Team Snout's annual business meeting, volunteering for Shinteki Decathlon 9, playing the Cluekeeper "Stanford Puzzle Tour" with Larry Hosken, and attempting to "Escape from the Moon Base" (our first Real Escape Game experience) with Larry, Corby, Yuan, and Mike.

It was a great trip, albeit a little exhausting: was California always so brutally sunny? Or have we just grown accustomed to the Pacific Northwest?

SnoutCast #72: "Haiku Raisin Quest"

Double bonus points (and possibly a small prize) for the first commenter to correctly explain what the title means! Because that would indicate you had also actually read these show notes. :)


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00:58 - "aquatic" plus Brent and Linda Holman
01:49 - why do the Shinteki Aquarius Remix?
03:18 - what changed between the 2004 and 2011 events?
05:10 - who played in the Remix?
05:48 - any surprises the second time around?
08:26 - differences between the two Remix weekends?
10:09 - how much work was the Remix vs. a completely new event?
15:56 - expectations, activities, and puzzles
19:40 - the new hint system
23:16 - what's next for Shinteki?
28:39 - upcoming events on PuzzleHuntCalendar.com, including the Puzzled Pint Pub Progression (7/23, PDX)!
30:05 - support Curtis in the Clarion UCSD Write-a-Thon
33:12 - The End

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Music: instrumentals from "Code Monkey" and "I Crush Everything" by Jonathan Coulton

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SnoutCast #41: "Let's Talk Shinteki"

This week's guests: Linda and Brent Holman, pillars of the Bay Area Game community, tell us about the happy habit which has become Shinteki. (You may also notice that they live near the N Judah rail line.)


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00:00 - zomby kitteh teaser
01:08 - "lugubrious"
01:33 - in the beginning: Stanford Games
02:25 - "she's regretted it ever since" and what happened with Hogwarts Game
07:02 - "I couldn't have imagined not running a Game"
08:03 - how to choose your college major
10:09 - "what I never did learn was how not to run a Game"
11:07 - starting the business: Just Passing Through, established 2001
15:03 - the origin of "just passing through"
17:25 - on not turning Jackpot Game into a TV show
19:12 - today: the Shinteki empire
23:17 - the voices of experience
25:16 - on running age-appropriate events for children
27:17 - advice for new GCs
29:00 - are day games now more popular than full-weekend events?
30:22 - re-runs, e.g., Decathlon on consecutive weekends
32:16 - we love our volunteers
33:12 - hire Shinteki! (PDF brochure)
35:00 - upcoming events: Puzzled Pint tonight!
38:45 - The End

Music: instrumentals from "Code Monkey" and "The Future Soon" by Jonathan Coulton

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