Brain Teasers San Francisco

🧩 (FULL) It's a Puzzle & Lunch Party! -- The Game Parlour

🧩\` **It's a Puzzle & Lunch Party! -- The Game Parlour** ▪︎ **This event is FULL.** Check back in a few months, when I'll offer it again. 🔆 You're invited to this lively gathering where we'll laugh and chat over lunch and work on small, beautiful individual wood puzzles. After the satisfying snap of your pieces all clicking together, your assembled creation will go home with you. ▪︎ **Easy parking** ▪︎ **1.5 blocks from an N-Judah stop** ▪︎ **I'll bring all the puzzle supplies.** **HERE ARE THE DETAILS:** ▪︎ **A $9 fee** for your wood puzzle is payable to me through Venmo or PayPal. **(Message me for my link.)** **▪︎ When I receive your payment, I'll move you off the waitlist.** ▪︎ Note: Game Parlour will also charge each of us $7 to use their space. We can stay as long as we wish. 🍒 **For lunch, the Game Parlour offers** a delicious waffle-centric and gluten-free menu that includes savory mochi waffle sandwiches, sweet mochi waffle creations, and fancy coffee, too. Vegan options are available. ▪︎ **PLEASE don't be a no-show.** If your plans change, remember to update your RSVP prior to the event. ▪︎ **This is a space-limited event.** A late cancelation will count as a no-show.

Upgrading your Intelligence

Please join me on Sunday August 30, at 1 pm at my home for a lecture and discussion on how our brain, heart and consciousness all interact to affect our health, relationships and society. No admission fees. This is a compilation of ancient wisdom, brain science, Quantum mechanics, psychology and holistic health discoveries. In this age of AI and exploding cosmologies, a broader concept of the mind may explain near-death experiences, reincarnation, healing prayers and the placebo effect. I will add my own experiences with 3 cancers, many heart stoppages and other mysterious ailments only resolved by my own research and minor miracles. We will consider the mysteries of brain plasticity, coordinated brain areas, hormones , and how the heart amazingly coordinates all our organs and subconsciously connects us to those we care about. These are keys to inner peace, compassion and insight. This new science often correlates with the wisdom of our spiritual teachers from Pythagoras and Plato to Blavatsky, Gandhi, and Hawkins . WE are eternal souls building a destiny with our amazing bodies and our mysterious emotions. ...Before and after the meeting feel free to browse the lending library and choose from over 200 free books , . Afterwards there will be tea, de-caf and snacks . **LOCATION: 4101 RHODA AVENUE, OAKLAND, CA 94602.** Use the Fruitvale exit from I-580; or the Lincoln Avenue exit from Hwy. 13. This will also be on Google Meet (via Theosophical Society) but the link is not available until a few days before the event. This is only the second MeetUp of this group in the last 8 years. Thus it is limited to 10 people, so please RSVP. | | | --- | |

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

Letter Writing & Tea @ Teance Fine Teas - Sunday Aug 23rd

Slow down and handwrite a letter, work on journaling, or just hang out with us over a cozy pot of tea! Free stationery, stamps, stickers, and envelopes will be provided, just show up and say hi! Feel free to bring your own supplies to share/destash as well. We meet on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of each month from 3-5PM at [Teance Fine Teas](https://www.teance.com/letter-writing-club-tea.html), a wonderful tea shop with a wide handcrafted selection of high quality teas. Guided tea tastings are available, or share a pot with a friend! Address: 1036 Grayson St, Berkeley, CA 94710 RSVPing is optional, feel free to just show up! :) Don't worry if the RSVP limit on meetup is reached, we'll make space for everyone!

Gaga (Handball/Dodgeball variation) & Other Lawn Games @ Alameda Gaga Court

Join us for games of **GAGA**! Gaga is similar to handball and is a low-impact, fast moving fun game that rotates players quickly, so its a great way to meet new people and keep moving! The location of the court on Alameda island is here: [https://maps.app.goo.gl/VeqmD6oz6AbAksYB8 ](https://maps.app.goo.gl/VeqmD6oz6AbAksYB8) The rules of Gaga are super simple and as follows: * *All players start with one hand touching a wall of the pit.* * *The game begins with a referee throwing the ball into the center of the pit.* * *Once the ball is in play, any player can hit the ball with an open or closed hand.* * *If a ball touches a player below the knee (even if the player hits himself or herself) they are out and they leave the pit. If a player is hit above the knees, the play continues.* * *Players cannot hold the ball* If you have any other games like spike ball, cornhole, or soccer or volleyballs, please feel free to bring them as well! We will have some additional activities set up on the sides for people to play and socialize while in between games of gaga.

Free Jigsaw Puzzle Night @ Ace Makerspace

Join us for our next FREE puzzle night! This event meets in Suite #206, co-working. Attendees are welcome to bring snacks and drinks to share. At previous events we've finished one \~1000-piece puzzle in about 3-4 hours. Your hosts (Pixie and Jacky) will be providing a few puzzle options for this next event. Check the #coworking channel a week or so before the event to vote on our next puzzle. New Guests must [sign up for a FREE Guest Account and sign their liability waiver](https://www.acemakerspace.org/product/guest-account/) before this event starts. Add the FREE account on the Ace makerspace website check out or sign up here → [FREE Guest Account](https://www.acemakerspace.org/product/guest-account/) Ace Makerspace is a 501(c)(3) non-­profit member-supported organization. All proceeds support Ace Makerspace and help us serve over 1200 people a year with innovative programs, equitable access to makerspace resources, and more creative, self-reliant communities in Oakland. YOU MUST RSVP/PURCHASE TICKETS THROUGH THE ACE MAKERSPACE WEBSITE: [www.acemakerspace.org/calendar](https://www.acemakerspace.org/calendar/)

Pizza and Discussion at Dimitrios's house

As usual, the Intellectual Discussion group meets at Dimitrios's home and he offers pizza. We follow the standard format of people submitting topics & then doing approval voting. Newbies always encouraged to attend! Submit topics here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeMOx17vAe25Ppw-F-AtJttsZVpKbj3gl4QJHKGVstu1XWEcQ/viewform?pli=1&pli=1

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!

Let's do jigsaw puzzles! Dinner afterwards

Trivia Tuesday at Shotski’s Alpine Lodge | Sunset Trivia

Looking for **Trivia Tuesday** in San Francisco? Join us every Tuesday at 7 PM for Sunset Trivia at **Shotski’s Alpine Lodge!** 🧠🍻 Bring your smartest friends, come solo and find a team, or recruit that one person who knows a suspicious amount of random facts. Expect questions covering everything from pop culture and music to sports, history, and general knowledge. It’s free to play, hosted live, played right from your phone, and there are prizes for the top teams. Grab a table and get ready to Think. Drink. Win.! 🏆