i'm dana young, one of the hosts of pha and a puzzlewriter for puzzleday. puzzleday is an 8 hour event for the microsoft interns held in the summer. because many of the interns are not "puzzle people" and due to the shortness of the event the puzzles tend to be much easier than the puzzlehunt ones. we try to have 30-35 puzzles including at least one meta.

the puzzleday staff is made up of a few people from a lot of different puzzlehunt teams and some fulltimers who played as interns. no previous puzzlewriting is required. in fact, we have a brief tutorial about how to write good puzzles for new writers. our next meeting is monday the 19th at 6pm in 16/3000.