Dec 29, 2023 6 min read

Nothing Starts With N

You know the game Scattergories? You roll a twenty-sided die labeled with letters instead of numbers, it lands on a letter, and you have to name something starting with that letter in a bunch of predetermined categories.

Apr 10, 2023 12 min read

What's the Name of This University?

Amid the cornfields of central eastern Illinois lies a public land-grant research university. What’s it called? For most universities, this question is simple, but in this case, its answer has perplexed students, alumni, and Wikipedia editors for decades.

Dec 30, 2022 4 min read

New Year Zone

This Christmas Eve, my mom asked me, “hey, are you gonna do that New Year site this year?” I hadn’t thought about it in almost a year, but last New Year’s Eve my dad and I had talked about making some kind of site that celebrates the New Year around the world.

Dec 12, 2022 4 min read

Full Moon Albums

In February 2020, after my first New York Times crossword got published, I used my earnings to treat myself to a pair of AirPods Pro. Little did I know, this would become one of the most valuable purchases I’d ever made.

Nov 28, 2022 9 min read

Animals to Play H‑O‑R‑S‑E With

H-O-R-S-E (pronounced “horse”) is a basketball minigame you play when you don’t feel like playing a real game but you have a basketball and a hoop and a friend.

Nov 7, 2022 15 min read

Twenty Questions

Let’s play a game. I’m thinking of a number from 1 to 100. You guess, and I tell you whether my number is higher or lower.

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