We're thrilled to have so many backers on BackerKit. Almost $10,000 too! That's better than we thought we'd be doing at this point. So, thanks for coming on board the puzzle party train.

We've put out more riddles! See below for the latest riddle!

We've settled into an "every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday" schedule, with new riddles going up approximately at noon Pacific on those days. If you're not yet playing alone, head to the Trivia Challenge tab below the videos, or just click this link. Riddles are fun!

The 12 Days of Cryptics is getting very close to its first draft being done. Then it will go into an intensive period of playtesting. If you're interested in being part of the Lone Shark testing team, pop over to our Discord and you can join up.

On July 16 through 19, several of the Sharks will be at the National Puzzler's League convention in Minneapolis, affectionately known this year as "SPAMCon" (SPAM = St. Paul and Minneapolis). If you're in that vicinity, we encourage you to drop by and puzzle with the best!

If you haven't already pledged for a copy, we'd love you to look into The Hunting of the Shark: Twenty Years of Lone Shark Puzzlehunts. It's the biggest and most colorful puzzle book we've ever made. We think it will keep you on your toes for months.

Here's a sneak peak at the table of contents.

The book starts out with a dedication to our former creative director, Teeuwynn Woodruff, who passed away in 2023. Tey was the puzzle event center of Lone Shark for many years, handling our teams and supporting all our fans. One of her favorite roles was the evil mastermind Jenn Kahn, who plagued the Gen Con Puzzle Hunt with her time-traveling shenanigans. Here's an illustration of her as Jenn Kahn, recently updated by our cartoonist colleague Stan!

The puzzle hunts are then organized by year. You can see by the page gaps that some of them are very big. In addition to a large number of Gen Con Puzzle Hunts, there are other big events from conventions, ARGs, escape rooms, and manhunts. (This week, we giggled over that Running Man trailer, which did look like events we ran  in the late 2000s. But with fewer guns and bombs.) Here's a logic puzzle from the Doomsday Rally, a world-spanning creation with puzzles from more than 50 different countries.

We built a lot of giant physical objects. For example, for a Microsoft hunt we put in the book, we shrunk at the attendees of a massive picnic down to six inches in height. That meant we made a huge inflatable spider to terrify the denizens. Here's a puzzle we took from that spider.

Many of the puzzles are adapted from physical props we made. For example, here's a life vest we created for an "escape boat" puzzle we ran in Mexico on the JoCo Cruise.

There are hundreds more puzzles in The Hunting of the Shark, many of kinds you've likely never seen before. We'd love to bring it to you, so if you're into such things, consider pledging for one today!

Sharky