There are about 48 hours to go on our Puzzle Party campaign! If you want to add some add-ons or upgrade your pledge, this is an excellent time to do so!

At the National Puzzlers' League con in Minneapolis this week, the Sharks received final bound copies of MIndspaces, the Puzzlevania Map, and The Hunting of the Shark. We approved them and gave the green light for full production. The presses should be running shortly.

Here's what they look like!

Everything just looks great. The Hunting of the Shark is especially hefty and colorful. We love the coil binding on Mindspaces. And we had a blast unfolding the Puzzlevania Map and punching out the crown for the first time.

These books will be done soon. We're excited to bring them to you not long from now!

Mike finished the first draft of The 12 Days of Cryptics last week. It's been sent to some testsolvers for initial impressions. If you're interested in being one of our puzzle testsolvers, you can go to our Discord and sign up in our puzzletesting channel. We'll hook you up! 

With all your help, we're just a few hundred bucks away from hitting our first achievement: the Con Cryptic Bonus Pack, a collection of our cryptics that have appeared in NPL convention games and magazines. If we reach $12,500 in pledges, everyone who pledges for a copy of The 12 Days of Cryptics will get this bonus pack. We hope we'll get there!

We just posted the last of our "Twelve Days of Christmas" riddle polls! We hope you've enjoyed them! If you want to see the whole set, just click on "Trivia Challenge" here or at the top of this campaign and you'll see them.

Let us know which riddles you liked best!

We're shining a spotlight on one of our favorite add-ons in this campaign. If you haven't reserved a copy, we highly encourage you to take a look at our most popular puzzle book: The Maze of Games, now in its fifth printing.

The Maze of Games is a puzzle novel written by Mike and illustrated by Pete Venters. It's the story of two teenagers in 1897 England who are kidnapped by the skeletal Gatekeeper and subjected to a series of ever-more-dangerous mazes filled with monsters, villains, and gods. Which would all be a simple thing to follow if the pages weren't in the wrong order.

That's right, the pages are in the wrong order. To make the narrative make sense, you have to solve a challenging set of puzzles that will provide an order to the book. Each two-page spread has a story on one side and a puzzle on the other.

Along the way, you'll help the teenagers, Colleen and Samuel Quaice, escape from the maze. That's a tall order, because the book went unsolved for four years after we released it in 2014. Then a group of a dozen solvers banded together to take the final chapter down, and many more people have solved it since. You can join all the victorious solvers by getting your own copy.

There are also forty pages of extra puzzles by some of the greatest puzzle makers of all time. All are written as if the puzzle makers were in the 1890s, which leads to some fascinating results. Here's a spread of those now.

There's a lot more to the Maze of Games experience. The Theseus Guide to the Final Maze is a bonus chapter that fits inside the last chapter. The Maze Map is a poster-sized optimization puzzle of the Quaice children's escape. The Keymaster's Tome is a hand-written answer book from the children's perspective. There are two audiobooks narrated by Wil Wheaton, a soundtrack by Austin Wintory, and a suite of audio puzzles called the Gatekeeper Variety Hour.

All of this can be found in the Maze of Games Bundle in physical and digital form.  Or you can get it all as part of the All the Sharks level. That's a great deal if you want all our puzzle stuff.

We hope you check out The Maze of Games and all we have to offer. Thanks for supporting the Lone Shark Puzzle Party!

Sharky