I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for their drive to work.

Okay, so today, in honor of all the puzzles in Murders at Carloff Manor, I decided to do a podcast about puzzles.

So today is about puzzle design, not specifically the Murders of Carlyffe Manor puzzles, but just puzzles

in general. So I'm going to talk about the difference between game design and puzzle design,

how they're similar, how they're different, but today is all about designing puzzles. Okay, so a little

background on my my-making background.

I grew up not just a giant fan of games, which I did, but also a huge fan of puzzles.

I did lots and lots of puzzles growing up, logic puzzles and crosswords and cryptic crosswords

and all sorts of different puzzles.

I really am a huge puzzle fan.

In fact, for those that know my history with Wizards,

my very first interaction with Wizards of the Coast

was making a thing called Magic the Puzzling.

And basically those were magic puzzles

where you take the game of magic,

you have a game in progress,

and then you have some goal. Usually it's when the game of magic, you have a game in progress, and then you

have some goal.

Usually it's when the game that turn.

But anyway, the way I started out in magic, my first foot hold in the door, was making

magic puzzles.

Also, I talked about this.

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