166: Nuzzle in Puzzles

Good Job, Brain!

Karen Chu

Hobbies, Leisure, Education

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2015

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

What has 10 arms, 4 mics, and insanely nerdy about things like crosswords, riddles, anagrams, and quizzes? Why, it's this episode of GJB that's all about puzzles- featuring our good friend and crossword king Tyler Hinman! Tyler blows our minds with CRYPTIC crosswords. Learn facts about solving a Rubik's Cube, answer old-timey riddles, and unscramble animal anagrams. How do you move Mount Fuji? Learn why you might get asked to solve puzzles during a job interview, and the "hare-y" puzzle hunt that captivated the world. ALSO: Listener Neville wrote us a crossword for your nerdy pleasure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast. Hello, Oslots, oozing on outer Ontario.
0:20.6	Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly Quizio and Otby Trivia Podcast.
0:24.6	This is episode 166.
0:27.0	And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your Oddball Orators, outrunning omelets.
0:34.0	I'm Colin.
0:35.0	I'm Dan.
0:36.0	And I'm Chris. And we have a special guest this week.
0:38.0	It is...
0:39.0	I'm Tyler.
0:40.0	Tyler Hindman, our friend and crossword champion.
0:44.6	Five time crossword champion.
0:46.5	Second best crossword puzzler in America.
0:50.5	Which I feel just great about.
0:51.8	Oh. Before we get started. which I feel just great about. Oh!
0:54.0	Before we get started here, we have a small, small bit of housekeeping to get through a quick installment of our
1:00.0	errors and omission segment.
1:02.0	Um, actually.
1:04.0	So this time it's me.
1:06.6	I got the um actually.
1:09.0	In our all quiz show, I did a quiz about three syllsyllable four-letter words and Oahu is one of those three-syllable
1:18.8	four-letter words and I said it was a city and it's actually an island. You guys didn't know what I meant, but I was wrong.
1:26.0	And so...
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