"EnigMarch" is an Inktober-style event that challenges nerds to make a puzzle every day for an entire month. I took this challenge on in March 2023. Now I am doing the EnigMarch prompts from 2022 in July of 2023! For fun!
My understanding of puzzles, as we're using the term, comes mostly from the MIT Mystery Hunt, where a "puzzle" is some packet of obfuscated information that you can "solve" to get an "answer," usually an English word or phrase. And very often the answers from a round of puzzles can be combined to solve a "metapuzzle."
To stay mostly in the spirit of the EnigMarch exercise, I got one of the organizers to send me one prompt per day, so I don't know what the "future" prompts are, even though they are more than a year old. I could easily cheat and look in the archives, if I wanted to. And I'm not promising I won't!!!
The title for each puzzle is the prompt handed down by the organizers for that day. Is that obvious? Anyway, here are my puzzles for EnigMarch 2022.
This puzzle has a nice version and a mean version. True heads will want to try the mean version first.
Rhyme and Reason ask Milo for some help.
Pretty dorky.
I forgot my phone password!
Happy birthday, Paul!
I am one of those.
This puzzle uses the answers from days 1-6 as inputs. Also, just so you know, it is not very good.
Featuring special guests Knife Guy and Grate Guy.
A compact, unfair one.
So short!
This one has pictures!
Here's a fairly simple crosswordy thing.
Another visit from Culex, Dark Knight of Vanda.
This puzzle uses the answers from days 8-13 as inputs. But it's pretty simple.
A chilling short story by Edgar Allan Poe.
This Rows Garden puzzle is very small and yet I don't think it's particularly easy. Because I was in a bad mood when I made it.
A visit from the Axem Rangers!
A text adventure featuring the little match girl!
Hey, what happened to this puzzle?
A visit from Wario! Oh boy!
A visit from Geno. From Super Mario RPG.
This metapuzzle uses the answers from days 23-30.
Oh no! We're trapped in a room! Oh no!
This delightfully straightforward crossword puzzle has a mean version and a nice version. True heads will want to try the mean version first.
Hey, Knife Guy and Grate Guy are back!
I like this puzzle but I don't have anything clever to say about it.
Featuring a very special Mystery Guest!
This puzzle has a hex grid, and I know nerds like those.
Hey, they forgot the "clip.websi" part!
A visit from the Three Musty Fears!
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