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New video - The Strange Mystery of the Bright Pink Moonshot Puzzle

Happy Daylight Savings! I completely forgot about daylight savings and thought I was waking up at 7:30 this morning with plenty of time before the video went up...well, I was actually getting up at...

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New video - The Haul to End All Hauls (plus what's inside the mysterious box)

I've been promising this video all year, but I just kept finding new puzzles that I wanted to feature. So I delayed it a little, but it's here now! This is such an incredible puzzle haul, and I hop...

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New exclusive video - OC Speed Puzzling Competition February 2024

Hi everyone and Happy Friday! So usually the OC Speed Puzzling competitions only happen every other month, but since one was postponed last fall because of the weather, we had one in both January a...

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My Winter Carnival video is here! (Plus exclusive training video)

I went to the biggest jigsaw puzzle competition for the second year in a row and...we did pretty well :) This video was a lot to put together, but I'm so happy that I hired a cameraperson this year...

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Exclusive video - Online puzzle contest vlog

Yesterday I had the most puzzle-y day, with two online contests, plus some thumbnail work and a puzzle with an interesting box. So I decided to vlog the whole day, which you can watch here:

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New video - This jigsaw puzzle is a MIRROR

If your favorite kind of videos from me are the ones that get more and more unhinged as the video goes on, then today is your lucky day. I'm solving the Magic Mirror puzzle released by Springbok in...

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Exclusive video - 2023 Puzzles Wrap-up

This may be a little controversial, but this year I decided to make my 2023 wrap-up video a Patreon exclusive, and I talk why about in the video. But don't worry, even if I didn't re-design all of ...

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New Exclusive Video - January OC Pairs Competition

As promised, here is my vlog from the Orange County Pairs Competition. I paired up with Yvonne and...we did pretty well. There's also some team practice for Nationals and a small puzzle haul in the...

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I Solved the 5000 Piece Pokemon Puzzle!

This video was a beast to put together, but I finally finished it! Watch me solve the 5000 Piece Pokemon puzzle here:

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I'm back with a new exclusive puzzle vlog 🎉

Hi everybody. I feel like the New Year is always a bit of a slow ramp up back into my filming routine, but even though I haven't finished a main channel video yet, I'm back with a puzzle vlog for a...

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Bonus Video - Full solve of a custom puzzle I made ages ago

First up, happy birthday to me! I'm writing this in advance, but New Years Eve, the day that I'm scheduling this to post, is my birthday!

But I didn't want to leave you without a puzzle this ...

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Bonus video - Full solve of an Eeboo puzzle

Hello everybody! I hope you're all having a great holiday. I'm writing this in advance so that you still get a little puzzle content over my Christmas break. So to be honest, I kind of forgot that ...

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New video - Solving a 3D Christmas Tree Puzzle

We made it to the end of the year! I published a lot of videos this year, and this is the very last one. For my annual Karen Puzzles Holiday Special, I solved a 3D Christmas Tree Puzzle from 1997! ...

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New video - How to Play Puzzle Chess (Plus an extended cut of a very special game)

I've been collecting footage for this video for months, and now it's finally here - your ultimate guide for how to play Puzzle Chess. I love how you don't need to buy anything new for this - all yo...

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New video - Finally doing the puzzles that have been sitting on my shelf for a million years

Today's video is one for the truly dedicated puzzle girlies (and all other gender expressions). After editing all of the World's videos, I wanted an excuse to just sit down and do a whole lot of pu...

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New Exclusive Video - The OC Teams Competition Nov 2023

As promised, here is my vlog about the puzzle competition I went to over the weekend - the Orange County Speed Puzzlers Teams Competition! I went into it thinking this would just be for fun since I...

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New treasure hunt video AND New exclusive puzzle vlog

Hello Patreon! Today I have two videos for you - the first is a look into a vintage treasure hunt puzzle from 1985. I really think this one is solvable, so if you click through to the YouTube video...

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New exclusive video - The California State Speed Puzzling Championships

As promised, here is my recap video about the California championships! This was along the same lines as the Connecticut event I went to a few months ago, only this time I was competing for real si...

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It's finally here - The Worlds FINALS video

I cannot believe this video series is finally done. I've been working on it nonstop for the last 5 weeks and now the final video is up. I really hope you guys like it:

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New exclusive video - My travel vlog in Madrid

It's finally here! I've been promising this for a while and I finally sat down and made it - my travel vlog of everything we did in Madrid outside of the puzzle competition. It's over an hour long,...

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New exclusive video - Training for the California State Championships

In a couple of weeks, I'm going up to the Bay Area for the California State Championships, and my new team got together to practice yesterday. Aly can't make it, so I'll be temporarily joining the ...

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The Worlds Semifinals video is up!

I have been working literally nonstop (I was up until midnight last night uploading it), but it's finally here - my Worlds video about all of the semifinal rounds. This one is the longest of the bu...

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My first Worlds recap video is here!

Finally, after nonstop editing, my first recap video is up! Deciding to split out the semifinals into another video was definitely the right decision - just getting this much finished really took e...

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New video - I raced Alejandro and Kristin!

I just put up a bonus Thursday video - think of this like an appetizer before my official Worlds recaps start up. The day before the competition, I raced Alejandro and Kristin at 100-piece puzzles,...

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Updates after Worlds

Hello Patreon! Since I was out of town for Worlds for the past two weeks, I don't have a new video today, but I thought I'd let you all know what's going on and what to expect.

First off, I a...

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I bought the three bears puzzle.

Hello from the week before I leave for Worlds! I'm sure I'm going to be so busy while I'm there, so I decided to pre-film today's video and pre-write today's post. The me that's writing this post h...

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New video - All of my speed puzzling practice for Worlds

I wasn't sure if I'd get a video out this week, because as this is publishing, I am in Spain taking in Madrid before heading up to Worlds! I am pre-writing this before I leave, so if you want more ...

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New Puzzle Haul video while I keep prepping for Worlds

Hi everybody, I have been nonstop prepping for Worlds. You don't even know how much speed puzzling practice I've been doing (and filming all of it - look for a video soon). So in order to make time...

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New video - Top 10 Things I'm Doing to Prepare for Worlds

As you saw in my old outro last week, I had a lot more I wanted to say about Worlds, and as I kept thinking about it, there was way too much to fit into one video. So I made a follow-up all about t...

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The Puzzle Camp video is here!

At long last, I finished editing the Puzzle Camp recap video! I included clips from it in some of my recent videos, but this video is the entire weekend start to finish. It isn't quite as polished ...

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