CA state puzzle competition was super fun this year! And I got a bunch of new puzzles! I took home 4 of the puzzles we did (one of them I actually got at the swap since my partner took our copy home). I also got a bunch from the swap table, and bought a couple advent calendars from Boardwalk!

This was with 4 people - otherwise I
never do 1000 piece puzzles in one sitting!

Finished! Teams was a tough Wicked puzzle from Ravensburger. But we managed to finish and I think we got 22nd place!

From the last time I ranked my top 100:

1 Space Alert
2 Décorum
3 Tragedy Looper
4 FUSE
5 The Ravens of Thri Sahashri
6 Cross Clues
7 Dungeon Petz
8 Witness
9 1889
10 Monikers

That was two years ago though so things may have changed

Pairs was a new puzzle from Boardwalk! I think we got 46th place! I like their new ribbon cut puzzles, and it has a nice matte finish!
This was my fist time doing pairs with another adult (and therefore my first time finishing the puzzle in the time limit).

Pairs relay done! You each work on one puzzle at a time and then switch every 5 minutes. I liked the Mickey puzzle a lot better than the underwater one! We got 27 minutes and 40 seconds

I love how you turned your instruments into props!

He's also been asking his teachers at school if they know Bomb Busters.
"Do you know the board game Bomb Busters? My mom makes board game song parodies and I'm going to make one about Bomb Busters to Ghostbusters!"

I didn't actually realize that Bomb Busters was a parody of Ghostbusters, but my kids noticed some of the art parodying the Ghostbusters logo.

Anyway, my kids haven't played Bomb Busters and don't know anything about it other than what it looks like, so his music video will be interesting.

Wow, congrats on the Aliensrock coverage!

They’re all doing well! Kids are getting friends in school now which is neat.

I’m wondering why my mind blanks out every time someone asks what I’m thinking