Creating a club

I got addicted to puzzles during my time in the military. No, not the jigsaw kind with 1,000 pieces. Instead, I’m referring to the kind you might see in an escape room: puzzles that don’t clearly tell you how to solve it, and part of the puzzle is figuring out just what the puzzle is and how to approach it. Sometimes, all you’re given is a paragraph of text, and from there you’d see that the first letter of every sentence spells out an English word or phrase. This is a simple puzzle, but there are some fiendishly difficult ones out there — put on display at events like the MIT Mystery Hunt.

I enjoy puzzles since they are a display of human ingenuinity, and often led to learning about new topics. Not only that, they can be quite abstract, and easy to fit in my mind to ponder while I hike along in the military. Since I enjoyed solving these puzzles, and saw that there were an incredible number of puzzle clubs in American colleges solely catered to creating and enjoying puzzles, I thought that NUS — a school some call the nerdiest place in the country — might stand to have our own puzzle club too.

Creating a puzzle

Nudged by a good friend of mine, the first problem I had to solve was to attract members. The easiest way would be to publicize the club on social media or a newsletter somewhere, but I thought of a better way.

Creating a puzzle club

Hidden puzzle

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