This week’s puzzle presented an easy solution. Unfortunately, the easy solution was not the right solution. Let’s start with the puzzle recap and then the solution. Gus Gauss likes to hack his holiday lights together himself. The last thing he has to decorate is the fence around the front yard and ...

Wanted: Kitty Mugshots (or other cute photos) Starting today visit IMAX’s Facebook page to enter the Puss in Boots IMAX Photo Upload Contest. If you have an awesome cat photo, you should be primed to do pretty well in this one. Not something you have lying around? Never fear – you ...

Well, here we are, back again with a winner and an answer for this week’s puzzle. Before we get to that, let’s have a recap of the puzzle: Edgar Allan Poe Elementary is not like other schools. Instead of the usual goldfish or hamster for a class pet, these kids like ...

I remember flipping through Edmund Scientific catalogs as a kid, before the World Wide Web existed, and marveling at the various things you could buy. They’re still around, of course, but now you can browse their catalog online for supplies for your latest experiment. But that’s not the reason I’m mentioning ...

Have you entered to win a copy of Stratus Games’ Launch Pad yet? Well, get on it, because there’s not much time left! A few weeks ago, we reviewed Stratus Games’ Launch Pad, a cutthroat game about building rockets, launching them into space, and sabotaging your opponents’ efforts to do the ...

Back in January, we mentioned game designer extraordinaire Daniel Solis’s Thousand-Year Game Design Challenge. The contest is all about creating a game that will still be played in the year 3011. No mean feat. After all, a thousand years is a long time. But Daniel’s making it interesting, putting up ...

If you are a classroom teacher, home school instructor or after school program director, Lego Education wants to give you $5,000. As kids and teachers say “so long” to summer and head back to schools, the behemoth of brick has announced the 2011 Lego Smart Creativity Contest. Just register and ...

A couple weeks ago, we reviewed Stratus Games’ Launch Pad, a cutthroat game about building rockets, launching them into space, and sabotaging your opponents’ efforts to do the same. I had a lot of fun with it and recommended it for its quick pace and excellent theme. If you’re interested in ...

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GeekDad by John Anealio Want a chance to win some awesome prizes from Wired and ThinkGeek? Then enter the “GeekDad” Remix Contest! First, if you haven’t heard the “GeekDad” song yet, click the play button on the player above. You can even download it absolutely free, just click the Download button on ...