Tuesday, October 21, 2025

coming soon to a new Substack section

On Substack, I've created yet another new section: The Entertaining, devoted to games and puzzles—mostly puzzles (maybe I should've called it The Puzzling). And once I work out the legalities, I'm going to aim for one of the crassest of motivations: money. I apparently need to check out both Substack's and Square's terms of service to see whether it's okay to create games and award cash prizes to the winner. I have one post already set to go—I'm calling it Ultimate Word Find 001. Here's what it looks like:

And here are the rules for this word find:

  1. Find the question hidden in the word find. It's there, and in a nonrandom arrangement inside the grid of letters. Trust me.
  2. Become a paying subscriber to my Substack and leave a comment with (a) the exact letters of the question itself (space or no spaces; I don't care), (b) the answer to the question, and (c) an explanation of the exact methodology you used to find the question.
  3. Be the first commenter to get all three of those right, and you win! In theory, if I discover it's legal to offer a $200 cash prize, I'll do contests like this once a month. And for every twenty new subscribers I get, I'll increase the prize amount by $20 per month (only one of these contests per month).
  4. Don't cheat. You could probably game this with AI, which can see the patterns autistically. If anyone did that, I'd have no incentive ever to offer prize money.
It's possible the pattern of letters might lead you to find what you think is the question I'd hidden, but you have to find that specific question, not just any random question. I hope that's clear. Welcome to my mind.


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