Jamie Thingelstad

Games

Our family created an all original custom jigsaw puzzle together! 🧩 We finished the box design and ordered 50 puzzles tonight. Celebration City is the first Jiggy Thing Puzzle! Zoomed in view of Ant Hotel shown here. 🤩

Hand-drawn cartoon puzzle art showing an ant hotel with skyscraper buildings, a no vacancy sign, a horse wearing a service vest, and fish in water below.

Tammy made a themed scavenger hunt / puzzle for Olson Family Vacation 18. One clue for each year. Everyone had to think hard. Each family won a custom Things 4 Good candle when they discovered the answer, and presents for the kids.

Scavenger hunt clue sheets and a handwritten answer sheet spread across a herringbone wood floor beside a yellow candle.

I’ve been following the development of the Playdate for a while. I love all the innovation — including games by season and the crank! The games look like they will be fun to pick up and play. I’ll be pre-ordering on Thursday!

Playdate handheld game console in yellow with a purple flip cover open, showing the screen, D-pad, and side crank

Rained most of the day today so I was able to finish the Saturn V LEGO build. For sure my favorite LEGO I have done. The size is impressive! 🚀

Completed LEGO NASA Apollo Saturn V set standing upright next to its box, with a Rampage arcade cabinet in the background LEGO Saturn V rocket model displayed horizontally on blue supports across a wooden table, with lunar lander and command module models nearby LEGO NASA Apollo Saturn V set 92176 displayed horizontally on a wood table showing five black rocket engines with yellow nozzles Completed LEGO NASA Apollo Saturn V set displayed horizontally on a wood table with its box and small lunar lander and capsule models nearby. Three LEGO rocket models on a wood table, including a large Saturn V labeled USA, with an arcade cabinet and people visible in background.

Paul Boswell, creator of the Turing Tumble, just launched Spintronics on Kickstarter. I’m in! Turing Tumble was brilliant, and this looks equally great! I love how he turns digital concepts and logic into something physical to interact with.

Colorful steampunk mechanical circuit board with gears, belts, spools, and brass components on interlocking hexagonal metal tiles