Brain Teasers San Francisco

Puzzled Pint San Francisco - Monthly Free Puzzles at a Pub

Puzzled Pint is a FREE event for puzzle lovers occurring in pubs throughout the globe on the second Tuesday of each month, if you like escape rooms, crosswords, or sudoku, you'll love Puzzled Pint! Beginning the Friday before, solve the location puzzle posted at [http://www.puzzledpint.com/](http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/puzzledpintsf/join-puzzled-pint-for-some-delicious-taco-tuesday-themed-puzzles-tomorrow-5-9/22301357-mail01.tinyletterapp.com/puzzledpintsf/join-us-in-the-mission-district-for-tonight-s-expanse-themed-puzzles/21330185-www.puzzledpint.com/?c=310d81e1-78e4-4625-b4aa-01c28f5582ae) to discover this month's location(s). Now running multiple in-person locations in San Francisco! Local Game Control volunteers will provide everything you need including hints to help beginners along. Bring a team of 2 to 5 people or come and make new friends. SF Game Control will be sipping beers and handing out puzzles and hints at each location from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. Interested in meeting new puzzling friends? Message [PuzzledPintSF](https://www.facebook.com/PuzzledPintSF) on Facebook and we can organize a mixed group or two to meet up and puzzle together. RSVP not required. Want a monthly reminder? Sign up for our newsletter, now with Mailchimp: [http://eepurl.com/iJY_SI](http://eepurl.com/iJY_SI)

East Bay Chronic Pain & Illness Peer Support Group Meetup

**About us:** The Bay Area Chronic Pain & Illness Peer Support Group is a friendly, unstructured, in-person peer support group for anybody 18+ who lives with chronic pain, illness(es), invisible disabilities, and any type of mental health experiences. The group is a casual safe space to hang out, talk about our lives, share coping strategies, form friendships, create community, and get support. **Location:** 2727 California Street, Berkeley, CA 94703 Look for a corner gallery in a residential neighborhood! **Accessibility Info:** * The meeting space is in a wheelchair accessible gallery. * There are bathrooms accessible via ramp within the gallery. * The lighting is relatively gentle, though of course feel free to bring hats, sunglasses to adjust! * Seating provided by the gallery are wooden, foldout chairs. If a metal foldout chair would be preferable, let me know, and I'll try to procure some! * Feel free to bring heating pads, yoga mats, cooling pads, to make yourself as comfortable as possible! \*\*\*Please refrain from wearing anything scented, including lotion, dry-cleaned clothes, etc. This is to ensure that the group is safe for people with chemical sensitivities.\*\*\* **Scheduling Info: While this group runs every other week, there are a few dates when the space will not be available. Those dates are: 4/7, 5/5, 6/2, and 11/3! To play it safe, check on the meetup page to be sure that we are meeting!** **COVID Safety:** * We are asking folks to mask! If you have any questions about the event, feel free to email Anna at herschlaga@gmail.com

Puzzled Pint

Summer Doubles Season

**HOW DOES A TENNISEASTBAY DOUBLES SEASON / LEAGUE RUN?** We try to run Mixed Doubles Divisions and Non-Mixed Doubles divisions for every season that we kick off. When we don't alway succeed we kick off one large doubles division instead. **We are bringing back Doubles Teammate matching** After taking a year off from connecting players with a Doubles Teammate, we're going to get back to doing it. All teammate matching is done ON KICKOFF DAY so we can have the highest chance of making strong teammate connections. This service will cost $24.95. Note that the league does not initiate COVID precaution rules but as always expects players to be respectful of each other and not play if COVID compromised. **Kickoff Day - June 11th** The **start day** of the season, all the teams are sent a **kickoff email** that contains important information about the league, the link where your league standings and other team contact information is. We **guarantee** 6 teams at your around your teams level, but have been averaging closer to 10+ teams in most cities. The number of different levels we run is solely based upon the number of teams enrolled for the league kickoff. Typically we are trying to run a Lev A Doubles 3.5-4.0+, Lev B Doubles 2.5-3.5, Lev A Mixed Doubles 3.5-4.0+, Lev B Mixed Doubles 2.5-3.5: in most cities. **Your Task - Flexible Scheduling** After this kickoff email is sent, it is the **captain's task to communicate with other captains**. Captains should work with their partners and the other captains to find an agreeable time and location to play the match. While TennisEastBay doesn't mandate your playing schedule, it is recommended that teams schedule at least one match per week. We allow teams to play 1 rematch per season. The regular season is all about playing as much as you can. **Where to Play?** Play at your local free tennis courts, tennis parks, condo courts or tennis clubs. The league strongly suggests that players jointly try to pick a tennis court location convenient to both. We provide an extensive list of [tennis courts](https://www.tenniseastbay.com/TennisCourts), including # of courts, lighting, hitting walls, etc. We strive to keep this list up-to-date. TennisEastBay sets up a must play dates to push players out on the courts. The final deadline is the date marking the end of the season, at which point players with 3-4 (Actually total is specified on the division page) wins will qualify for a post-season playoff to determine the league champion. [JOIN TODAY](https://www.tenniseastbay.com/join) Full price is $39.95 for team enrollment or $24.95 for the doubles partner matching to play in a season. Just go to the [Join Page](https://www.tenniseastbay.com/join) and complete the short form. We'd be happy to find you dedicated tennis playing partners.

Puzzical Chairs at Mad Oak Bar N' Yard

This event is to attend a new kind of puzzle event by Assemble Puzzlery at Mad Oak in Oakland. The event includes their usual free casual puzzling tables and puzzle swap. These are open to all with no registration required. To play Puzzical Chairs you have to [register](https://assemblepuzzlery.com/collections/puzzical-chairs-at-mad-oak-6-14-26) at their website. It's like musical chairs but with puzzles. This is not a speed puzzling competition. The focus is on mixing and mingling with new people, while doing puzzles. Let us know here if you sign up! Note that Mad Oak is a 21+ venue

Laser Cutter Safety Training

Learn how to be safe while using the laser cutter! We have a 150W, CO2 laser cutter with a 3 x 4 ft bed. This training is required to use the laser cutter because we don't want people setting our most expensive equipment donation on fire. You have to do this training even if you were trained at the old space, as we have different safety features now. Training covers * Dangers of the laser cutter * How to be safe * How to put out a fire Each participant will cut a piece of cardboard on the laser cutter while following all the safety steps. This is also a good place to ask questions about specific materials or projects. There is a 5$ fee to register, and we suggest a 20-30$ donation for this class: https://donate.noisebridge.net. If the registration fee is a barrier to your participation, please reach out to the event organisers.

Sorting Party for Community Build: The Six Portals

This Meetup is to attend the sorting party for Assemble Puzzlery's Community Build: The Six Portals. This is a free event but they do ask that you [RSVP](https://assemblepuzzlery.com/collections/community-build-the-six-portals?utm_campaign=7%2C000+Pieces.+One+Community.+Can+we+do+it%3F_168933130425&utm_medium=email&utm_source=shopify_email). The big build is the following Sunday, June 7th. Check out that event too! May 31st 1-3: just get together at Gilman Brewing to sort pieces for the 7,000 piece Ravebsburger puzzle, The Six Portals. Sunday June 7th: come during one, two or three of the build shifts to assemble The Six Portals. Why? Why not?

Community Build: The Six Portals

This Meetup is to attend Assemble Puzzlery's Community Build: The Six Portals. This is a free event but they do ask that you [RSVP](https://assemblepuzzlery.com/collections/community-build-the-six-portals?utm_campaign=7%2C000+Pieces.+One+Community.+Can+we+do+it%3F_168933130425&utm_medium=email&utm_source=shopify_email). Keep in mind that the puzzle might be finished before the end... but maybe we'll do it twice! There is also a pre-event on May 31st May 31st 1-3: just get together at Gilman Brewing to sort pieces for the 7,000 piece Ravebsburger puzzle, The Six Portals. Sunday June 7th: come during one, two or three of the build shifts to assemble The Six Portals. Why? Why not?

Trivia at Ghost Town

What's to say? it's our first time here and we're excited.

Monday Night Trivia at The Sycamore

Come out for a night of fun and prizes! Feel free to bring your trivia team or organize one here. Please coordinate in the event notes if you want to form a trivia team, teams of up to six are allowed. If you come solo introduce yourself and I’ll direct you to the “pick up” team. I’m the quizmaster and it should be obvious who I am. San Francisco is currently back to an indoor mask mandate whether you are vaccinated or not. Bring a mask!

John Vervaeke - How Minds Find What Matters

For this session, we'll be reading John Vervaeke, Timothy Lillicrap, and Blake Richards’ paper “Relevance Realization and the Emerging Framework in Cognitive Science.” Up to this point, many of our discussions have focused on consciousness, experience, and the mind’s relation to the world. This paper shifts the focus to a deeper problem underlying cognition itself: how do minds figure out what matters? Vervaeke and his co-authors argue that many classic problems in cognitive science — problem solving, categorization, rationality, action, communication, and the frame problem — all depend on the same hidden capacity: relevance realization. Cognitive agents must somehow zero in on the relevant features of a situation while ignoring an indefinite background of possible alternatives. The paper argues that we should not look for a theory of “relevance” as if relevance were a fixed property things have. Instead, we need a theory of the mechanisms by which relevance is realized dynamically, context-sensitively, and non-circularly. On their view, cognition is not best understood as rule-governed symbol manipulation alone, but as a self-organizing process that balances competing pressures: generality and specificity, exploration and exploitation, efficiency and resilience. The reading can be found in the [discord](https://discord.gg/4cMTjf3Qhr) in the sf-philosophy-reading-group channel

The Distance Between Two Notes: Poetry, Music, and the Art of Silence

There is a moment in every piece of music when nothing is played. A pause. A breath. A silence so brief it can be overlooked, yet so essential that without it there would be no rhythm, no tension, no release. Poetry lives in that same interval. Between one word and the next, one line and another, there is a space where meaning gathers. The unsaid deepens what is spoken. The pause after a verse can carry as much emotion as the verse itself. In both poetry and music, beauty often emerges not only from what is expressed, but from what is withheld. “The Distance Between Two Notes” is a gathering devoted to these luminous intervals — the rests, silences, echoes, and subtle transitions where feeling ripens slowly into language and sound. Across traditions, artists have long understood the creative power of emptiness. Jalal al-Din Rumi listened for the music beneath words. Amir Khusrau dissolved the boundary between poetry and melody. Matsuo Bashō distilled entire worlds into a few carefully placed syllables. John Cage transformed silence itself into a form of listening. This gathering invites us into that attentive space where poetry and music meet — where a held note, a repeated refrain, or a lingering line reveals what ordinary speech often cannot. Some poems arrive softly. Some songs remain with us longest in the silence after they end. Some feelings can only be approached indirectly — through rhythm, pause, repetition, or breath. We will read poetry that listens as much as it speaks. We will explore the emotional architecture of the ghazal — its refrains, separations, returns, and resonances. We will sit with poems shaped by stillness, longing, memory, and incompleteness. There may be music. There will certainly be pauses. And somewhere in those intervals — between one voice and another, one poem and the next — something shared may quietly begin to take shape. You are welcome to bring: * A poem centered on silence, longing, resonance, or waiting * A ghazal, haiku, or meditative poem you love * A musical piece or lyric that embodies stillness or emotional depth * An original poem inspired by pause, rhythm, listening, or distance We invite poetry from all languages and traditions. Together, we will read, reflect, interpret, and listen — allowing meaning to emerge collectively and slowly. As always with Kaavya Connections, the conversation may wander beyond the theme. We follow where the words — and silences — lead. Because sometimes, what stays with us most is not the note itself, but the space between. > “Music is the space between the notes.” — commonly attributed to Claude Debussy And perhaps poetry is the space between two silences. Please find more about us here — [Kaavya Connections Website](https://www.kaavyaconnections.com/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) Please also join the mailing list for upcoming gatherings and events: [Kaavya Connections Mailing List](https://www.kaavyaconnections.com/mailing-list/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) If you would like to volunteer to help organize future gatherings and performances, please email: contact@kaavyaconnections.com Bring a friend, a poem, a favorite piece of music, or simply come to listen. Above all, bring your creative self. **Kaavya Connections**