What I Do in My Basement...

I wouldn't feel as though I'd met my full potential in life if I hadn't realized my dream of living in an enormous puzzle house. As a kid, I used to base my self worth on how many hours I spent drawing blueprints for my eventual home, with puzzles hidden in the furniture, moldings, tiles, and, of course, secret passages interwoven throughout.

Basically, when it finally came time for me to get a home, I built it from the ground up based on my blueprints from years before. Nowadays, it's a five-storey house with puzzles on each floor, and they all interrelate and build on top of each other. If you followed each puzzle to the next, you'd eventually find yourself in my favorite of the secret rooms, the basement where I spend most of my time thinking, listening to music, and writing these puzzles that you've come to expect every week.

I built one additional puzzle in that basement as a fun side project. I made it out of geometric-patterned tiles on a column down there—I like geometrical designs because of the mathematical elegance that they're based on. Similarly, I hope you'll like my mural because, you know, I'm surprisingly artistic. Do you get what I'm going for with it?

This is today,
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