Undiluted Hocus Pocus
A podcast about the wonder of problems, puzzles, and sometimes murder. Hosted by John Allore from the true crime podcast Who Killed Theresa. https://johnallore.substack.com/
Episodes
Problem...
I bet you have, you just don't know it. You know those 4 x 4 tile scrambles where you have to rearrange the sliding pieces into an image? Popeye? The Flinstones? That's the 15 puzzle, sometimes called Gem, Boss, or Mystic Square.
Here's a puzzle. What happened to Marilyn Bergeron? This week marks the 15th anniversary of the disappearance of the 24-year-old girl who today would be thirty-nine. Bergeron lef...
You know bagatelle probably from the handheld pinball incantation from your childhood. The word "bagatelle" means a "trifle" or simply "child's play."
I have a case that is child's play; the 1990 murder of 23-year-old Lise Brisebois. It's a wonder a suspect has never been mentioned as an obvious candidate has been geographically under the Surete du Quebec's nose for thirty years – a sort of criminal investigati...
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Soma was a parlor game mass manufactured by Parker Brothers in the late 1960s. Its seven pieces, made up of geometrically shaped unit cubes, could be assembled into one elegant palm-sized cube. The Parker Brothers handbook claimed over a million solutions for the puzzle (there are 240), which arrived in our home the Christmas of 1969, shortly before the pet rock...
Music: Murder She Said, Fun Boy Three
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