https://sfartbookfair.com/ with a really lovely way to display ⨳ 2026 ⨳
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mastodon 4.6.9octothorpean.org is a #puzzle trail website for teams of #curious people. Hints for beginners.
In theory, this account posts game announcements and cool octothorpe facts. In practice, it's pretty much all cool octothorpe facts.
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#Puzzlehunt:
Pound:
# Yes, absolutely #
Hash:
# Definitely #
Number:
# Count on it #
Lovely illo photo from the Wikipedia entry for "sandpit" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandpit # # #
To skip the unhelpful AI summary and get right to the 10 web links, merely repeat your search query 34 times:
Somebody solved the St Louis puzzle‽
https://www.octothorpean.org/ has many, many puzzles. Most of those puzzles can be solved on your couch; but some involve observing details about some place or other. To solve one puzzle, you need to see some things in a place in St Louis, Missouri, USA. For years, that puzzle has lurked, unsolved.* Until just over a day ago. Whoever did this: Nice work. You now have bragging rights at the next Puzzled Pint or whatnot.
"the other day i picked up this baba is you pin … its a working 3x3 sliding puzzle too, so you can shuffle the tiles around … one might immediately wonder if it has a "solution" and if so how many. you might think that the arrangement shown on fangamer's website counts as a solved state, but there's a problem: baba needs to touch the flag to win, but they can't do that because they're on separate tiles. …"
"A brief history of the numeric keypad"
"In 1914, David Sundstrand, a Swedish-born American man, filed patent №1198487 under the name Sundstrand Corporation. The goal was to push the usability of these adding machines further. He rearranged the key in a more “logical, natural configuration.” _It_ _was_ _based_ _on_ _a_ _3x3_ _layout_ [!!!], beginning with 789 at the top and a larger 0 at the bottom." [emphasis mine]
https://www.doc.cc/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-numeric-keypad
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For your consideration. If you have a tumblr account, please vote. Otherwise, please create a tumblr account and vote.
MIT Mystery Hunter Renee posted an interesting knitting project to the # hobbies channel of the Puzzle World discord https://discord.gg/ZJMPjCEr
graffiti at Waverly Place, San Francisco, USA
two win one = tie
This #lego (English) Braille set looks like it has the essentials
https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/play-with-braille-english-40656
"Oppencraft"
https://lemmy.ml/post/15947415
Because Twitter is rebranding to X, they're selling off some Twitter-y office decorations including, uhm, a not-Twitter-branded Hashtag planter?
Presidio Middle School #Octothorpe
# The upcoming book Shift Happens is about the history of keyboards # The author put a lot of thought into the book's design # The best part: instead of the usual * † ‡, the book has unusual footnote markers, including an octothorpean one #
When choosing a bag to use as a bug-out bag, which is top priority?
# Capacity?
# Resilience?
# Pun potential?
I have joined a dynamic new social networking site, forum . octothorpe . site
It's so new that I added the first forum discussion type: your favorite name for the # symbol.
https://forum.octothorpe.site/view.php/topic/2023-07-11001918e3acc
# Tea House at the San Mateo Japanese Garden #
# Octothorpe Mittens knitting pattern # Designed by Myriam Garçon #
https://biscotteyarns.com/collections/newest-products/products/octothope-mittens-knitting-pattern
What did I just read # # #
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Octothorpe Horse Profile
Sire: I'm All the Talk
Dam: Hashtag
Black Girl's Window, Betye Saar, 1969
Amy + Jered
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19th St BART Station, Oakland CA
no idea. way too hard for me. amazing design tho # # # https://birdbrainedpuzzles.blogspot.com/2026/07/an-x-rated-puzzle.html