Outside the Blocks: A Puzzle Podcast

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https://pandorasblocks.org/
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https://pmxwords.com/
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https://www.crosswordsforcancer.com
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark
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37. And Still ANOTHER Musical Episode with Guest: Adam Doctoroff

Season 4 · Episode 8

Sunday, January 19, 2025 • Duration 49:09

Emma and Adam return to close out the discussion they started last July on the 2024 Muller Monthly Music Meta puzzles! Spoilers for the MMMM puzzles from August-December 2024 as well as the mega meta and the red herring.

Links of interest:
Muller Monthly Music Meta: https://pmxwords.com/
Full list of the 2024 MMMM Puzzles: https://pmxwords.com/2024-puzzles/
Ariadne's Crossword Library: https://ariadnescrosswordlibrary.com/

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Want to get in touch with us? We would love to hear from you! You can reach Emma at damefoxwords@gmail.com, and you can reach Will at pandorasblockswmc@gmail.com. We may read your letter on a future episode!

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36. "It's a Breeze!" and "Interstate Travel" with Constructor Mike Graczyk

Season 4 · Episode 7

Sunday, August 4, 2024 • Duration 39:31

Emma and Mike talk about two of Mike's "Pun of a Kind" metas! If you've ever found yourself thinking, "I would like crosswords more if 30% of clues were puns," then oh boy have we got some puzzles for you!

Links of interest:
Pun of a Kind on XWord Muggles Forum: https://xword-muggles.com/viewforum.php?f=48
Pun of a Kind Blogspot: https://punofakind.blogspot.com/
Mikey G's Crosshare page: https://crosshare.org/mikeyg

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Want to get in touch with us? We would love to hear from you! You can reach Emma at damefoxwords@gmail.com, and you can reach Will at pandorasblockswmc@gmail.com. We may read your letter on a future episode!

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27. Arranging Outside Fill-Ins

Season 3 · Episode 9

Sunday, February 18, 2024 • Duration 36:20

Emma and Will do some flower arranging outside a filling station! Wait... hang on a sec... *checks notes* ... Emma and Will fill in the blanks outside a flower shop? No, that doesn't sound right either... *checks notes again* who wrote these notes?? Okay, well, probably Emma and Will talk about three Pandora's Blocks puzzles. Let's go with that, that sounds right. Spoilers for "Floral Arrangement," "Fill-Ins," and "Outside In, Inside Out."

Links of interest:
Pandora's Blocks: https://pandorasblocks.org/
"Floral Arrangement": https://crosshare.org/crosswords/7oUgthLxw13ThgUeVncI/floral-arrangement
"Fill-Ins": https://crosshare.org/crosswords/ReX8ojqNM5MCeryMXHRt/fill-ins
"Outside In, Inside Out": https://crosshare.org/crosswords/IoRv2qdPH3dDkxaDDocU/outside-in-inside-out

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Want to get in touch with us? We would love to hear from you! You can reach Emma at damefoxwords@gmail.com, and you can reach Will at pandorasblockswmc@gmail.com. We may read your letter on a future episode!

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26. Duplicate Cold Opens Get Prohibited

Season 3 · Episode 8

Sunday, January 28, 2024 • Duration 36:09

Emma and Will talk about three more Pandora's Blocks puzzles! Spoilers for "Duplication Prohibited," "Get to Gettin'," and "Cold Opens."

Links of interest:
Pandora's Blocks: https://pandorasblocks.org/
"Duplication Prohibited": https://crosshare.org/crosswords/fSBx4rBy7GlqgdgF4XcX/duplication-prohibited
OneLook: https://onelook.com/
Wordlisted: https://aaronson.org/wordlisted/
"Get to Gettin'": https://crosshare.org/crosswords/vux4xWIxKnoZKtuuwrC8/get-to-gettin
Open Source Shakespeare: https://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/
"Cold Opens": https://crosshare.org/crosswords/HIbGCbdrdplw3PGJ3WrZ/cold-opens
Pandora's Blocks discussion boards: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewforum.php?f=43

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Want to get in touch with us? We would love to hear from you! You can reach Emma at damefoxwords@gmail.com, and you can reach Will at pandorasblockswmc@gmail.com. We may read your letter on a future episode!

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25. A Musical Episode with Guest: Adam Doctoroff

Season 3 · Episode 7

Sunday, January 14, 2024 • Duration 44:06

Emma and Will are joined by speed solver extraordinaire, Adam Doctoroff, for a crash course in speed-solving and a discussion on the Muller Monthly Music Metas from 2023! Spoilers for 2023's MMMM puzzles ("Triple Up" and "Hope Springs Eternal" in particular), so go solve those first if you haven't already!

Links of interest:
Muller Monthly Music Meta: https://pmxwords.com/
2023 Mega Meta solution (this page also includes an explanation of the red herring and solution grids for all of the 2023 puzzles): https://pmxwords.com/2023-mega-meta-back-to-the-beginning-solution/
2023 Puzzles (puzzles and solutions for all 12 monthly puzzles are available from this page): https://pmxwords.com/2023-puzzles/

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24. I went to sing Christmas carols and a hockey meta broke out

Season 3 · Episode 6

Sunday, January 7, 2024 • Duration 37:06

Pandora's Blocks is back for one more season! Emma and Will talk about the first two puzzles of season six. Spoilers for "Do You Hear What I Hear?" and "Through the Five Hole" as well as for an older meta from over on the Muggles Forum, "Not a Creature Was Stirring..."

Thanks to @Bird Lives (and Rodney Dangerfield) for inspiring the title of this episode.

Links of interest:
Pandora's Blocks: https://pandorasblocks.org/
"Do You Hear What I Hear?": https://crosshare.org/crosswords/70J4tioNcRblgAKnLTBG/do-you-hear-what-i-hear
"Not a Creature Was Stirring...": https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?t=1358
Silent letter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_letter#English
"Through the Five Hole": https://crosshare.org/crosswords/Xddr5kluMQBstfL25Roa/through-the-five-hole
Five-hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hole
Pandora's Blocks Weekly Meta Crossword discussion boards: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewforum.php?f=43

Contest Crosswords Combating Cancer (CCCC): crosswordsforcancer.com
TO GET ACCESS TO THE PUZZLE PACK:
1. Make a donation (suggested amount $13) to a cancer-related charity.
2. Email a copy of your receipt to crosswordsforcancer@gmail.com.
3. Receive puzzle pack! OR, provide the email of a friend who you would like to gift this puzzle pack to, in which case they receive the puzzle pack!
4 (optional but encouraged). Tell other people to do steps 1-3.

23. Metas Wrapped

Season 3 · Episode 5

Sunday, December 10, 2023 • Duration 42:13

Emma and Will take a look at some of their favorite metas from the past year! Spoilers for several metas from 2023. See below for links to solutions and other sites of interest.

Contest Crosswords Combating Cancer (CCCC): crosswordsforcancer.com
TO GET ACCESS TO THE PUZZLE PACK:
1. Make a donation (suggested amount $13) to a cancer-related charity.
2. Email a copy of your receipt to crosswordsforcancer@gmail.com.
3. Receive puzzle pack! OR, provide the email of a friend who you would like to gift this puzzle pack to, in which case they receive the puzzle pack!
4 (optional but encouraged). Tell other people to do steps 1-3.

Will's Top 3 Metas:
"Second Look" by Matt Gaffney (MGWCC #768)
Crossword Fiend solution: https://crosswordfiend.com/2023/02/22/mgwcc-768/
XWord Muggles discussion page: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?t=2074
"Turn on the Radio" by Peter Gwinn (MGWCC #765)
Crossword Fiend solution: https://crosswordfiend.com/2023/02/02/mgwcc-765/
XWord Muggles discussion page: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?t=2041
"Making the Rounds" by Patrick Berry (Fireball #17)
Crossword Fiend solution: https://crosswordfiend.com/2023/04/23/fireball-contest-april-19-2023/
Xword Muggles discussion page: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?t=2171

Emma's Top 2 Metas:
"Table Setting" by Evan Birnholz (from the CCCC puzzle pack)
XWord Muggles discussion page: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?t=2186"Forest Sight" by Pete Muller and Mack Meller (MMMM Sept 2023)MMMM solution page: XWord Muggles discussion page: Will's Honorable Mentions:"It's Integral to the Clue" by Matt Gaffney (MGWCC #777)Crossword Fiend solution: "They Turn Into Superheroes" by Quiara Vasquez (MGWCC #784)Crossword Fiend solution: "Meeting Place" by Peter A. Collins (Fireball #25)Crossword Fiend solution: Other links of interest:WWDTM April 10, 2021, Limericks: Crosshare donation page: Fireball Newsflash Crosswords Kickstarter:

22. A Cryptic Thanksgiving

Season 3 · Episode 4

Sunday, November 26, 2023 • Duration 14:23

Emma and Will solve a mini cryptic!

Links of interest:
Crosswords and Trivia by Stella Zawistowski: https://toughasnails.net/
Oneth of the Month Mini Cryptic #18: https://toughasnails.net/2023/10/01/oneth-of-the-month-mini-cryptic-18/
All #cryptic content at Tough as Nails: https://toughasnails.net/tag/cryptic/
B-t-Z Vwllss Crsswrds Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/petergordonpuzzler/b-t-z-vwllss-crsswrds
Fireball Newsflash Crosswords Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/petergordonpuzzler/2024-fireball-newsflash-crosswords
Antiwordle: https://www.antiwordle.com/

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Want to get in touch with us? We would love to hear from you! You can reach Emma at damefoxwords@gmail.com, and you can reach Will at pandorasblockswmc@gmail.com. We may read your letter on a future episode!

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21. The Wordle Episode

Season 3 · Episode 3

Sunday, November 5, 2023 • Duration 32:10

Will and Emma play Wordle and do mostly okay with geography!

If you listened to our last episode, then we're sorry to say this is not the episode you want it to be - we do have a very exciting guest to talk to, but we had to postpone the recording.

Links of interest (in the order they're mentioned in the episode):
Wordle: https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
Dordle: https://dordle.io/ (there are many sites where you can play this)
Quordle: https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/quordle/#/ (there are many sites where you can play this too)
Worldle: https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/
Absurdle: https://qntm.org/files/absurdle/absurdle.html (shockingly, there are many sites where you can play this too)
#crosswordle Puzzles on Crosshare: https://crosshare.org/tags/crosswordle
Wordle Answer Finder https://word.tips/wordle/#

BONUS (not mentioned in the episode, but we know you want it):
Taylor Swift themed Wordle: https://taylordle.org/

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Want to get in touch with us? We would love to hear from you! You can reach Emma at damefoxwords@gmail.com, and you can reach Will at pandorasblockswmc@gmail.com. We may read your letter on a future episode!

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