Hello Puzzlers Podcast Celebrates National Puzzle Day With Livestream Event

  If you're a puzzler, you already love this show, Hello, Puzzlers!. I've been listening to the NPR Puzzlemaster Will Shortz for over 20 years on NPR's Sunday Puzzle. Figuring out the puzzle before next week's shows is one of my many regular delights, along with No-Trump Tuesdays and Thursdays, butter pecan ice cream, Stephen Colbert's monologue, and any independent podcast. (They're all good!)

Of course, one of my favorite podcasts is Hello, Puzzlers!. Since today is National Puzzle Day, the show is hosting a special livestream event in celebration of National Puzzle Day on Thursday, January 29th at 7pm ET.

Hosted by A.J. Jacobs, author of four New York Times bestsellers, and his Chief Puzzle Officer, Greg Pliska, who has crafted special themed puzzles built just for the event! They’ll be joined by a line-up that brings comedy and serious puzzle chops for a national puzzle celebration, including Matthew Broussard, actor, comedian, and creator of MondayPunday; David Spira & Peih-Gee Law, hosts of Reality Escape Pod; and Jodi Jill, founder of Puzzle Day.

Hello, Puzzlers! is a three-times-weekly podcast for anyone who loves a good brain-itch. Each episode is a fast, funny mental break where A.J. challenges guests with custom-crafted puzzles - everything from anagrams and clever riddles to sneaky trivia. The show has welcomed
everyone from Ken Jennings and Gretchen Rubin, to Joseph Gorden Levitt and Dax Shepard. 

A.J. Jacobs is a New York Times bestselling author known for books like The Year of Living Constitutionally, Thanks a Thousand, and Drop Dead Healthy - taking on BIG ideas with heart, humor, and curiosity. 

Most notably, Jacobs was the answer to ‘1 Down’ in the March 8, 2014, New York
Times crossword puzzle.

Greg Pliska is a longtime puzzle creator whose work has appeared everywhere, from The New York Times Puzzle Mania to New York’s marquee mega-puzzle hunt. Greg and A.J. have created puzzle hunts, books, challenges, and wildly clever games together. 
 

Greg is a longtime puzzle creator whose work has appeared in The New York Times’ Puzzle Mania, on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday (where he’s filled in for Will Shortz), Ask Me Another, A Way with Words, and live events for This American Life.

Here is a puzzle for Greg. Why did NPR take Ask Me Another off the air? It was one of my favorite shows. 

Tune into the livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY8VS1iqKRo

Here's a familiar puzzle to puzzlers for readers to, well, puzzle on!

Puzzle: You’re in a room with two doors. One leads to freedom, and the other to doom. Two guards know which door is which. One always tells the truth, the other always lies. You can ask only one question to one guard. What do you ask? 

 Answer: Ask, “If I asked the other guard which door leads to freedom, what would they say?” Then choose the opposite door.