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Snoutcast Ends And GC Summit On Hiatus

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Curtis Chen and DeeAnn Sole, the minds and vocal chords behind the puzzle hunt podcast, Snoutcast, announced Tuesday that they’re ending the program’s five-year run.

“Thank you to everyone who listened, commented, or supported us in other ways,” wrote Chen. “We got to talk to some really cool people, and managed to spark some great conversations. We learned a lot, and we hope we gave you something to think about along the way.”

Chen and Sole promise that they’re not packing up their things and riding off into the sunset.

“Don’t worry,” writes Chen. “[We’re] going to continue running puzzle events—honestly… Those names may or may not include the word ‘Snout.’”

In the final podcast, number 213, Chen explains that the reason the two are ending the series is because they’ve seen the diversity in puzzles and hunts expand, and that other places have grown up where information can be found about puzzle hunts.

Also announced in the final podcast was that Chen will no longer be running the Game Control Summit (GC Summit), that the puzzle event is currently in hiatus, and he is leaving it to others to take the reigns of the event.

Premiering on Nov. 25, 2009, with the episode entitled ZombiePortLand, the two have talked puzzle hunts between themselves and a large swath of the puzzle community. Snoutcast continued as a weekly series until Dec. 17, 2013, its two hundredth show, where Chen revealed that the podcast would switch to a monthly publishing schedule and only feature interviews from females within the puzzle community.

The new schedule continued for an additional 12 shows, before today’s final.

Chen cited that Snoutcast was an experiment from the very beginning, stating in the first episode “As the latest of our various experiments, she has grudgingly agreed to join me in an irregular podcast about games… we will definitely talk about puzzle hunts, but we reserve the right to digress.”

Chen and Sole are the founders of Puzzled Pint, a monthly puzzle hunt that occurs the first Tuesday of every month in local bars in 11 cities across the U.S. and as well as across the Atlantic, in London.

Source: Hotsheet, ZombiePortLand

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