Brian Pane

The Web Riddle Two, a web-based puzzle exercise being released episodically, is shaping up to be a fun mental challenge.  It is thematically similar to other online puzzles like P4X; the object is to find clues in and around a webpage to determine the next webpage in the puzzle.  Having just finished the first set of puzzles in The Web Riddle Two, though, I’m impressed by the fresh set of puzzle techniques.  Challenges in this genre seem to overuse a handful of basic tricks, such as clues hidden in images and solutions hidden in HTML comments, but this one uses some out-of-the-box ideas.  I dare not go into detail, lest I spoil the fun for others, but tracking down solutions to puzzles 1-4 led to some rewarding “aha!” moments when the pieces clicked into place.

After shrinking my site to a few informational pages and letting it sit dormant for several months, I’ve finally found a bit of time to redesign the pages and begin a blog.

I still need to refine the formatting of posts, but my table-free, CSS-based layout is working overall.