Equinox 77

 The 76th Equinox Word Games Party will be held in Berkeley on March 21, 2026. See you there!

Equinox 76

The 76th Equinox Word Games Party will be held in Berkeley on September 20, 2025.

Equinox 75

The 75th Equinox Word Games Party was held in Berkeley on March 22, 2025.

Theme: Circus

Equinox 74

The 74th Equinox Word Games Party was held in Berkeley on September 21, 2024.

Theme: The Olympics

Equinox 73

The 73rd Equinox Word Games Party was held in Berkeley on March 23, 2024.

Theme: Radio

Mixer: Hello Group, Solve Mixer by NeilFred Picciotto (Renfield)
Paper-and-pencil puzzle: by Jill Tallmer
Whole room game: The Middle by Wei-Hwa Huang
Creative game: Segues by Dean Howard (Shrdlu)
Performance game: Digital Alphabet Blocks by Stephen Ng
Paper-and-pencil puzzle: Hex Rugs and Rock 'n' Roll by Rick Rubenstein (Rubrick)

Hex Rugs and Rock 'n' Roll

A paper-and-pencil puzzle

Hex Rugs and Rock 'n' Roll by Rick Rubenstein (Rubrick)

Has there ever been a more iconic pairing than rock music and floor coverings?

Digital Alphabet Blocks

A performance game by Stephen Ng

The game involved hardware and software, consisting of six 8-inch wooden cubes with an LED letter displayed on one side, plus a video game component displayed on a projector. Rearrange the cubes to make words and score points. The screen shows your current set of letters so the audience can follow along. Periodically, a letter falls from above to replace one of your existing letters. Groups played in teams of four--three people to manipulate the cubes, and a spotter to help make words and anticipate new letters.

All the code is available on GitHub. The video game part is playable on a computer; contact the designer for more details.

Segues

A creative game from Equinox 73

Segues by Dean Howard (Shrdlu)

Teams work together to find connections between apparently unrelated things.

The Middle

A whole room game from Equinox 73

The Middle by Wei-Hwa Huang

In this game, Wei-Hwa posed several trivia and wordplay-adjacent questions, but instead of trying to guess the correct answer, each team's goal was to guess what answer had been given the "middle-most" number of times on social media. It then proceeded to get weirder and more meta as the game went on.