Players in California with Kaye Brown

Kaye and I have known each other for 5 years thanks to the wonderful world of crossword solving on Twitch, so it's about dang time we collaborated on a puzzle (and finished it)! This one is themed around our shared interest of board games, and we brought it to this year's Westwords (where we competed as a pair and won the Beach division!).

Kaye says: "As collabs often go, we have had a few different things in the works over the years without getting them out the door, but I was happy to get this one polished up in time for Westwords and to now share it here. Expect more from us (but not necessarily in a timely fashion) because it turns out we have fun working together!"

Thanks to Herzwesten, known tabletop gamer and tabletop game maker, for taking a look at this for us.

[solve online]
[pdf]
[ipuz]

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