When: March 12, 2016, 11:00am – 2:00pm. Registration begins at 10:00am. Where: Pacific Science Center’s Ackerley Family Exhibit Gallery, Seattle, WA. First ever West Coast KENKEN competition. With prizes. Fee: $6 in addition to admission to Pacific Science Center. Registration is limited to the first 200 people. It’s possible to sign up in advance online.

When: February 13, 2016, 9:30am-4:00pm. Where: 312 E 95th St, New York, NY 10128. Run by Tom Cutrofello. Agenda: 4 talks/presentations, buying, selling, and trading puzzles. All puzzlers are welcome. Feel free to bring in lunch, snacks etc, but no nuts. Fee: $5 – goes back to the school.

A FREE, monthly, casual puzzling event. When: Tuesday, February 9, 2016. Where: in over 20 cities across three continents: North America, Australia + New Zealand, and Europe. The location puzzle is revealed on Friday, February 5. Solve puzzles with friends while drinking and eating!

A crossword competition run by George Barany and a team of crossword authors. Finishes on the post Super Bowl 50 Monday, turning into Tuesday, February 8, 2016, midnight PST. Two divisions: Master and Open. For each division the task is to explain the puzzle’s theme. Grand prizes for each division and more.

The hunt finishes January 31. At least 23 teams participated through the month of January during which the hunt has been run. The online puzzle hunt is organized and run by a small group of recent Caltech graduates for the amusement of other Caltech alumni.

When: January 23, starts 10:00am. Where: 2761 Fair Oaks Ave, Redwood City, CA. Teams of 4 will be solving 1000-piece puzzles competing for the $500 Grand Prize. Sold out for participants. But still room to watch the fun, shop and check out the wooden puzzle cutting demonstrations!

When: January 26: doors 7pm, game 8:30pm; January 27: doors 7pm, game 8:30pm. Where: Highline Ballroom, 431 W 16th St, New York, NY 10011. Unravel the mystery of Dr. Mad life’s work. A 1.5-hour Real Escape Game. Teams of 6 players. $25/player. Produced by SCRAP.

When: January 23, 2016. 11:00 am, 3:00 pm, 7:00 pm. Where: AT&T Park, 24 Willie Mays Plaza, San Francisco, CA 94107. Recommended team’s size: 3-6 people. Please, arrive 45 mins before each start. Tickets: $34 online, $40 at the door. Real Escape Game by SCRAP.

When: during the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day weekend. Where: the MIT campus. Launched in 1981 the hunt challenges each participating team to solve a large number of puzzles which lead to an object (called a “coin”) hidden somewhere on campus. The winning team gets to write the subsequent year’s hunt.

The 1st Puzzled Pint of the year – a FREE, monthly, casual puzzling event. When: Tuesday, January 12. Where: in over 20 cities across three continents: North America, Australia + New Zealand, and Europe. Tuesday, January 12, 2016. The location puzzle is revealed on Friday, January 8. Solve puzzles with friends while drinking and eating!

When: Dec 18, 2015 – Jan 12, 2016. Where: online. A small box is hidden somewhere in England. A set of elaborate puzzles/clues reveals where it is hidden. The challenge is to be the 1st to unearth the box, a task that usually takes a dedicated team anywhere from a week to a month to accomplish.

When: December 5, starts 6:00pm. Where: downtown Charleston, South Carolina. Test your wits, try some brews and bug the crap out of the fashion police with some horrific sweaters! Teams of up to six players each. This is a walking hunt, no vehicles permitted. Price: $25 per player.

When: December 5: 12pm, 2:30pm; December 6: 12pm, 3pm, 5:30pm. Where: Emporium Arcade Bar, Wicker Park, 1366 N Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60622. Real Escape Game: many teams, each with 6 people, all sharing one room. 60 minutes to find the clues, solve the puzzles, and escape not the physical room but the situation. $27.37 per player. Produced by SCRAP.

A FREE, monthly, casual puzzling event in: Austin, Bay Area (Peninsula & San Francisco), Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, London, Montreal, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Seattle (City & Eastside), Toronto, and Washington DC. Tuesday, December 8, 2015. Location puzzle is posted online Friday, December 4. Solve puzzles with friends while drinking and eating!

When: December 5, 2015, 3:00pm-6:00pm. Where: Downtown Richmond, VA. The players will be taken throughout the Shockoe Bottom area on a quest to solve puzzles. Tacky prizes for the top 3 teams. A round of drinks for all at game’s end. Team sizes: 1-5 players. Fee: $15/player. The starter clue will drop via e-mail on Thursday, December 3rd.

When: November 21-22, 2015. Where: Mountain View, CA. Day 1: each team of six (or fewer) has to submit 2 puzzles incorporating the secret ingredients which are revealed a week before. Day 2: 10:00am – teams come together for the actual competition. Teams are judged both on solving ability and on how well received their puzzles are.

A FREE, monthly, casual puzzling event in: Austin, Bay Area (Peninsula & San Francisco), Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, London, Montreal, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Seattle (City & Eastside), Toronto, and Washington DC. Tuesday, November 10, 2015. Location puzzle is posted online Friday, November 6. Solve puzzles with friends while drinking and eating!

When: November 11, 7:00pm-9:30pm. Where: The Women’s Building, 3543 18th Street #8, San Francisco, CA. The Nation is the oldest weekly news magazine in America. Celebrating its 150th anniversary, Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto, the creators of The Nation‘s weekly crossword puzzle, will host a live puzzle event, inspired by the magazine. Tickets: $6.27.

When: November 7, 11:30am – 7:00pm. Where: The Oval, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. The Puzzlehunt is free. For teams of 4-6. Bring your own team or join an existing one. The event is geared towards people of all levels. Lunch & dinner will be provided.

When: Nov 2-10. Every noon Sydney local time. Where: online. Teams of 5 members. Teams with at least 1 Australian member – eligible for prizes. 20 puzzles, released in five Acts of 4 puzzles each. Meta Puzzle on top. 3 hints for each puzzle. Sponsored by the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney.