A Coordination Challenge

Aug 2025

Dear Friends,

I’ve designed a challenge to test a type of social sharing coordination puzzle for Serpent/Dove, and I’d love for you to try it.

On my website, you’ll find an experience I hope you won’t choose to tackle alone. There’s something about making a puzzle meant to be shared that has transformed this project for me. You could, technically, solve it by yourself—it’s just not designed for you to do that. If you care about fidelity to authorial intent, you’ll need to find the others. :)

There’s an assignment for each Investigator Archetype I wrote about last week, and each one tests a different kind of thinking. This challenge-of-challenges involves fragments that must be combined to form a whole.

I’m looking for six different types of thinkers to come together for something that only becomes meaningful when it’s all together.

If this challenge works, it will become the prototype for a larger design schema. Consider this your invitation to join me in my research on collective problem-solving.

The puzzles are live on byemarianne.com now.

Momentum matters, as the first wave sets the pattern for everyone who follows. You’ll have until the next time you hear from me to complete the challenge. I’m counting on you !

So long,

Marianne

P.S. I would love for you to document your experience along the way. I’ve given some suggestions on the site, and tracking the process matters as much as the solution. #ByeMarianne was the best I could think of for now, but I’ll bet you can come up with something even more clever.