I’m one of the designers for the yearly April Fools Puzzle Contest on IRC.

Please feel free to join at https://blog.ircpuzzles.org/. The idea is that you solve puzzles in a chatroom, and get the password to the next chatroom, and so on. If you’re not familiar with IRC, don’t worry–a link is provided to connect in your browser, too.

It’s a lot of fun, and I hope you enjoy!

P.S. The contest should be up for a while, so don’t worry about being late to the party!

The April Fools Puzzle Contest is over. Congrats to the winners.

I wrote up solutions for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 (2023 not yet live).

Spoiler tags are available, so you see clues and incremental hints, if you missed the original contest and want to play one.

See https://blog.ircpuzzles.org/2023/04/2023-april-fools-live/ for how to play.

Every year, the libera IRC network has a puzzle contest starting on 04-01. (It’s not an april fools joke). It’s fun but quite difficult.

This year I wrote about a third of the puzzles. Give them a try, either alone or as a team! It will be open indefinitely, but social activity will die off in a week or two.

As of writing, no one has won (finished all the puzzles) just yet.