Today is Dependence Day in the Kingdom of Loathing, an annual holiday that celebrates how we are dependent upon you to spread the word about our goofy games so that we can make more of them. Later tonight we'll set off a lot of fireworks to celebrate what a good job you did telling your friends!

i finally worked my way through a mystery theme RADDLE *on time* and i feel incredible puzzler power within me! thanks @pzlr.org!! you can still play the archive and puzzle out the mystery at raddle.quest 🙂‍↕️

My New Year’s resolution is to stop procrastinating.

It’s another Mystery Theme over at raddle.quest — this one has two more weeks of puzzles left, though it’s possible to solve now…

All I can see is Sloth from the Goonies

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

The difference between having a cat and having a dog is staggering. Having a dog is like having child who’s disgusting. Having a cat is like having a painting that’s mad at you.

Some friend of a housemate wrote “kingdomofloathing.com” on our kitchen whiteboard in the spring of 2004.

I collected all of my #EnigMarch puzzles and made it so you can check answers in the browser. horrible.farm/games/puzzle...

This game is real good! Goes places! www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=156...

Blue Prince (2025)

Dog sitting a friend’s pug. (Bonus appearance by Moxie!)

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only The Expanse The Good Place The Americans Deadwood Firefly 30 Rock Rick and Morty Parks and Rec Schitt’s Creek The Office Gravity Falls Freaks and Geeks The West Wing House Taskmaster

New for your May Day: I wrote a song about when IT happens. frontalot.bandcamp.com/track/common... And there's a playable RPG music video for it. frontalot.com/loot

This is incredibly charming. I highly recommend using it on desktop, where you have a real cursor.

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

After a length of development that - if I truly, deeply thought about it, I would instantly go insane as if I'd opened some Lovecraftian skin-bound tome - our narrative city-builder Generation Exile has launched out of Early Access into full 1.0 today! store.steampowered.com/app/2963240/...

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

The days of #EnigMarch are dwindling away, but we still have some #cryptic clues to get through. For today's prompt of CUBE, I present: Squares of easily-digested cheese, all stacked into a cube (5) Check your answer here: www.callingit.in/1/#02mS1gACh...

Almost every day someone writes in on how they can donate/support the site, so I set up a Ko-fi page. ko-fi.com/enclosehorse Completely optional/zero obligation.

Full disclosure: sometimes I say “All the best,” but I’ve actually retained some of the best for myself.

Hmm I’m not sure about this new plumber 🤔

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

LinkedIn trying to lure me into their ecosystem with puzzle games seems like it'd work, except for the fact that they are straight-up lying in their (seemingly constant) emails about it. I don't even *have* 15 colleagues at my company!

Ten years ago today we shipped Firewatch. I say this every anniversary but it feels both like a lifetime ago and like it was yesterday. Thank you everyone who played it back then or played it today for the first time. Thank you to everyone on the team, I’m still so proud of what we made.

Isles of Sea and Sky is $4.99 on Steam buff.ly/3Zc8eFI Deck verified

Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction

Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

"Well, looks like we’re gonna turn into a buncha condos," say the owners of Potrero Hill music venue Thee Parkside in an Instagram post featuring a video of graffiti being written saying "This Will Be Condos You Can't Afford." buff.ly/EhUINsq

This game has a daily challenge now, and it's often genuinely tricky. Highly recommend adding it to your list of morning puzzles. (You do have a list of morning puzzles, right?) enclose.horse

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

It's Crimbo over in the Kingdom of Loathing, and it's the Winter Sale (with our lowest prices ever on West and Shadows) over on Steam and the Switch! You and your friends can have SO MUCH LOATHING for the holidays if you want. store.steampowered.com/developer/Asym www.nintendo.com/us/search/#c...

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

the only time i ever gave back to my community (cinephile dorks whose parents claim they can't see it but we suspect are messing with us a little)

We've filed 'The Montana Plan' with the Montana SOS. This is your Constitutional Initiative to make Citizens United irrelevant by simply removing a corporation's power to spend in elections.

We are so excited to announce that "THE PRICE OF DEMOCRACY: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History," by @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social, is now available!  Learn why battles over taxation have always been battles over democracy itself: bit.ly/4nK7J3N 

sound smart about tariffs: buy this book

The biggest day in esports has arrived. Q-UP is out. store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/...

We've got a Halloween Whodunit up on Raddle. Several guests at our Halloween have witnessed a murder. They've given testimony in the form of Raddles. Can you solve them and figure out who done it? raddle.quest

There's a third Mystery Theme for the Raddles this week. This one's trickier than the first two. raddle.quest

Scroll down to the Major Events Timeline, and nothing will prepare you for what you'll see. I cannot believe it is real. www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...

Reminder: Spooky Express is OUT NOW! 🚂🧟🧛 Take charge of the only rail service willing to carry the undead passengers of deepest, darkest Trainsylvania. Steam: s.team/a/3352310 itch: draknek.itch.io/spooky-express iOS: apps.apple.com/app/id673842... Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

The Collector: made in two days for Ludum Dare, a clever browser game where you try to collect orbs while fighting off enemies https://split82.itch.io/the-co...

The president of MIT has declined to sign "the compact". Full letter, as shared with the MIT community:

We made a new game. It’s called Q-UP. It’s a coin flipping eSport. There’s a free demo! store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/...

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This week's Raddle puzzles have a mystery theme -- it's solvable just from Day 1's clues if you want an extra challenge!