Celebrations

It has been a week over here at Puzzlebox Events HQ. Sunday (7/28) we ran our first official (all the bells and whistles added) game of Monsters Among Us. We learned a lot. Any lingering feelings of imposter syndrome are behind us. This is definitely what we are meant to be doing.

On Thursday, August 1st, we met the lovely folks in our Alumni Cohort - all fellow entrepreneurs and recipients of the Burton D Morgan Foundation grant through Kent State’s LaunchNET program. It was a wonderful reception with a keynote speaker who had a lot of advice about learning from success and failure and celebrating both.

Lastly, on Saturday, we had my birthday party. The kind of event that inspired this whole endeavor. This year was a joint birthday event with my friend Joe, and we played a Puzzlebox-style game called Taskmaster, which is based on a British TV show. It was an absolute blast. The participants had a good time trying out all the insane tasks we set them to. Due to copyright issues, we likely won’t be bringing this party to our list of options - though, we may roll out something inspired by it, sometime down the road.

I’m writing to you all exactly one week since the first Monsters game, and it feels like so much has happened since then. We have a long, winding road ahead of us, with plenty of peaks and valleys we can’t begin to imagine. But we will face it all with the same spirit of adventure that we started this with, and be sure to celebrate all of it - the victories and the failures.