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To celebrate the Fivefold launch, @rixmatt.bsky.social made me this amazing 3D printed physical Fivefold board! It’s so cool!

Photo of a 3d printed square puzzle with a lid. The puzzle is black and the lid says “FIVEFOLD” in 5 colours. Inside the puzzle is a 5 by 5 grid of slots that numbered tiles can be placed into. The numbers on the tiles are different colours to match the digital version of the game. Between each number slot is a slot where different rule tiles can be inserted.

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 29/09/2026

Our full app version of Fivefold is now available! Fivefold is a Sudoku-inspired game where the rules change every puzzle. It's a free download, NO ADS, tons of free puzzles, and a puzzle pack if you want more. That's it! iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/fivef... Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 28/09/2026

Do you know what's happening tomorrow? Fivefold mobile is launching! 🎉 fivefold.ca/app/

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 20/09/2026

I was playing around with a dithered RGB shader, and swapped out all the green pixels for white ones, and got this. The wild thing is there are only black, white, red, and blue pixels in these scene. The orange, yellow, and green are an illusion! The 2nd image is a close up of the "green" sphere.

A very pixelated looking 3D scene with different coloured blocks and spheres in it. It looks like there are blocks that are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple, but it's rendered using only pixels that are black, white, red, and blue.

Very zoomed in view of part of the images showing chunky pixels that are black, white, red, and blue.

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 18/09/2026

I’ve been slowly working on this interactive ceramics projects for a few months now and I finally have a working prototype. Park the car in the driveway and the light in the house turns on! There’s more than needs to be done, but I’m excited that it works!

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 17/09/2026

Our game Fivefold is coming to iOS and Android Sept 29th! Fivefold is a Sudoku-inspired game where the rules change every puzzle! You can pre-register for free on your app store to be notified when it's available fivefold.ca/app/

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 30/08/2026

The Crimson Moon (I was trying to stack some video I took of the lunar eclipse and something went wrong with the tracking, but it made this very cool image)

A somewhat abstract image of the Moon. The moon’s shape is kind of visible in the center and bright at the top and darker in the center. But in front and behind the moon are red and purple streaky double images of the moon.

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 14/08/2026

Last night I remedied my cake situation by baking a small Victoria sponge. Before my trip it had never occurred to me that you could buy 15cm (6”) cake tins. This has changed the whole way I think about cake…

Photo of a small victoria sponge cake. There are two layers of light brown cake with whipped cream and strawberry jam sandwiched between them. On top the cake is dusted with powdered sugar. The cake is on a ceramic plate sitting on a wood table.

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 12/08/2026

Every point on the sun is emitting light in every direction. So if you stick a board with a tiny hole in between the sun and the ground, the hole only lets the light from each point on the sun travelling in a single direction through the hole.

Diagram of a yellow circle, and at one point on the circle a bunch of arrows are radiating away from it in different directions.

Two diagrams. The top shows a yellow circle with some lines going through a single point on a wall with a label that says "pinhole". The second shows the same circle, but the wall has a large opening, and there are multiple lines going from the circle through the large hole, showing the edge of the projected image blurring. It is labelled "blurry".

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 12/08/2026

It was cloudy where I am for the partial eclipse. I had my telescope out and ready, but only had a few seconds right at the start to see anything. Managed to capture this blurry image through the clouds just as the Moon was starting to take a bite out of the Sun. :)

Photograph of a partial solar eclipse taken through a Seestar S30 smart telescope using a solar filter. The Sun is obscured through layers of clouds and is somewhat blurry because of that, but is still visible and orange. A small arc of darkness is visible in the top left of the Sun where the Moon is starting to move across it.

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 12/08/2026

The sun emits light in all directions. Some of that light is going in the right direction to travel through the hole and is projected onto the surface behind it. The moon blocks some of the light that would have come through the hole, and so projects a shadow through the hole. Not sure this helps? 😅

A roughly drawn diagram showing a yellow circle with a blue circle in front of it. Lines go from the edges of those circles through a hole in a line, and show the images projected on a plane behind the line.

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 03/08/2026

I’m in the UK, so I had a chance to visit with @greyalien.bsky.social and @bchezza.bsky.social and go for a walk. The countryside is a bit less green than usual, but we had a lovely time and it was great to catch up!

Photo two men standing in front of a view over the English countryside. Jake Birkett on the left and Owen Goss on the right. The landscape looks mostly yellow-brown and dry with some patches of greenery.

Photo of a walking path extending into the distance along a hill ridge line. In the distance is a taller hill with ancient burial mounds visible at the top. It is very dry, and the grass is mostly yellow-brown, which patches of pale green.

Photo looking over the English countryside from the top of a tall hill. A walking path is visible in the distance extending along a hill ridge line. In the distance is a taller hill with ancient burial mounds visible at the top. It is very dry, and the grass is mostly yellow-brown, which patches of pale green.

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 19/07/2026

I updated the Realistic Fishin' itch page with real quotes from players! otrain13.itch.io/realistic-fi...

Screenshot of the itch.io page for Realistic Fishin, which reads:
What Players Are Saying

"I can't catch a fish"
Kevin

"It was relaxing enough I suppose"
Tom

So realistic, it's just like real fishing!

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 15/07/2026

We released an update to Fivefold yesterday. We improved the share text, and when you solve a puzzle, it now shows you a graph of everyone's times who have solved the puzzle so far today! Fivefold #247 (Jul 15, 2026) fivefold.ca ✨ 1:27 🏆 0 hints

Screenshot of a screen from the Fivefold web puzzle post-game screen. It reads: "Daily Puzzle #247. July 15, 2026. Solve time: 1:27. Next puzzle in 14:40:39"
Below the text is a histogram graph showing times along the bottom, and bars above them at different heights showing how many players had solve times of different lengths. A thicker white line shows my time of 1:27 on the graph.

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 12/07/2026

Spent several hours playing with #GREATARTIST this week and I'm starting to get a feel for how to nudge it in certain directions intentionally, while it also remains spontaneous and unpredictable. These are titled "RAM Shortage", "Misremembering", "Rothko 2.0", and "Woven Dreams", respectively.

Title: "RAM Shortage" made in Become a Great Arstist in Just 10 Seconds.
Glitchy pixel art that is a series of concentric squares defined by jagged lines of different colours, mostly yellows, greens, and reds, with a black background.

Title: "Misremembering" made in Become a Great Arstist in Just 10 Seconds.
Glitchy pixel art. Pinks and purple lines hint at some square shapes, while in the centre a dark blue and green area appears to float in the background. Some of the pixels are bleeding in a hot pink colour over the colours to their left.

Title: "Rothko 2.0" made in Become a Great Arstist in Just 10 Seconds.
Glitchy pixel art. Predominantly white square, with a smaller square of bright colours in the top center of the image. That colourful square is mostly greens, but with some reds at the top and purples at the bottom, and the colours have vertical streaks running through them.

Title: "Woven Dreams" made in Become a Great Arstist in Just 10 Seconds.
Glitchy pixel art. Bright lines of blues and oranges criss-cross across a bright red background, given a vague appearance of fabric woven from brightly coloured threads.

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 11/07/2026

Don't forget that BECOME A GREAT ARTIST IN JUST 10 SECONDS is available again, and you should play with it if you haven't before (and if you have). I made this today. I call it "Mycelial Prism"

Glitchy pixelated image. On the right is a kind of fuzzy purplish column in the foreground. Behind it is are stretched and distorted bands of rainbow colours. The bottom of the image is mostly white.

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 11/06/2026

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be able to look that far into the future

Screenshot of google AI overview that reads:
"The final of the 2026 FIFA World Cup is yet to be played. The tournament is actively ongoing, running from June 11 to July 19, 2026."

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 09/06/2026

I was trying to search for information on when the first world cup match is, and google ai gave me this impressive answer

Screenshot of google AI overview search results which reads:
"The opening match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup was played on Thursday, June 11, 2026, between Mexico and South Africa at the iconic Estadio Azteca in Mexico City. The game ended in a 1-1 draw."
But the current date is June 9, 2026. The match has not happened yet.

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 08/06/2026

I’ve been making these miniature ceramic houses in collaboration with my wife. I make the little houses and she hand-weaves the colourful roofs! They’re really fun to make (and lots of fun to arrange into little villages to photograph) :)

Photo of miniature ceramic houses laid out to look like they’re on a street. The houses are white with black doors and have different, brightly-coloured roofs made of woven thread. Some of the houses have tiny lights inside, visible through cut out windows.

Photo of miniature ceramic houses laid out in an offset grid. The houses are white with black doors and have different, brightly-coloured roofs made of woven thread. Some of the houses have tiny lights inside, visible through cut out windows.

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 27/05/2026

I was inspired during the Artemis II mission to make some mugs. They are finally out of the kiln and finished! They might not be everyone’s cup of tea (har har), but I love ‘em!

A grey and brown handmade mug. It has a white and black moon drawn and carved on the side of the mug, and underneath is written “Copy, Moon Joy”

A grey and brown handmade mug. The surface is carved and painted to look reminiscent of the Orion space capsule used in the Artemis 2 mission. At the bottom of the mug is says “Artemis II”

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 16/05/2026

Microsoft has unveiled its new XBOX console

Photograph of the original XBOX console and controller

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 15/05/2026

Last weekend I had the pleasure of making a game with one of my kids at TOJam (the Toronto game jam)! It's a 2-4 player local multiplayer battle game called Frogin' Tongues. If you've got a windows computer and a bunch of game controllers, you can download it here: otrain13.itch.io/frogin-tongues

Screenshot of a video game showing a top-down view of a pond surrounded by rocks. There are 4 different coloured frogs in the pond, and there are various weapons around. Some of the frogs have their tongue attached to weapons or barrels in the pond.

Screenshot of the main menu for the game Frogin' Tongues showing four slots for players and UI to change frog colours. Status text for each frog reads "ready" or "not ready". Text on the screen reads "Made for TOJam 2026"

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 04/05/2026

Your cat and my cat look like they could be cousins :)

A very fluffy white cat with grey markings on her face, lying on her back, asleep

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 11/04/2026

My cat watched the Integrity re-entry with me

Photo of a TV screen showing the integrity capsule in free fall, having just deployed some parachutes. A white long-haired cat has her paws up on the console in front of the tv. She is watching the parachutes.

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 10/04/2026

I was thinking about how if you're on the Moon, the Earth basically looks like it's always in (nearly) the same place to you, and then I wondered how that would look over time, and then I got a little carried away and modelled it all in Unity to see for myself!

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 02/04/2026

The live views from Orion right now are amazing www.youtube.com/live/6RwfNBt... #artemis2

Screenshot of a live stream video taken from the Orion spacecraft. On the left part of the craft is visible in sunlight. In the distance Earth is visible as a crescent, lit up partially by the Sun.

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 31/03/2026

We are approaching dangerous levels of cuteness here! If I don’t share this photo, we could be looking at a cuteness overload!!

Close up photo of a long-haired white cat with grey stripes on her face, lying on her back, eyes closed, paws curled in front of her in the air.

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 27/03/2026

Here are a few pictures of the mini town in more detail

Photo of a miniature ceramic town made from a block of clay. It stands about 15cm tall. It is mostly grey/brown with some pale colours in places. Mostly in the red roofs.

Photo of the miniature ceramic town taken in the dark. a light inside the ceramic sculpture shines through some of the windows in the buildings.

Close up photo of a miniature ceramic town made from a block of clay. It stands about 15cm tall. It is mostly grey/brown with some pale colours in places. Mostly in the red roofs.

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 27/03/2026

Fresh out of the kiln! 🔥 My little ceramic cliffside town is finally done! I’m really happy with the result. I carved it from a solid block of clay. It is hollow so that I can put a light inside, and the light can come out of some of the windows.

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 26/03/2026

Yesss! My copy of Magical Athlete finally arrived! 🥳

A photo of the components of the board game Magical Athlete spread out on a table. Everything is very brightly coloured. There are lots of little wooden character pieces and dice on top of a rule book. A stack of card is on top of the board in the open box.

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 24/03/2026

um, I don’t have a soundcloud, but you can play my free browser puzzle game Fivefold here (no ads, no cookie banners, no logins, just puzzles) fivefold.ca

Screenshot of Fivefold. It is a 5x5 grid with numbers in some of the grid cells. Some cells have multiple smaller numbers to make notes. In between some cells are dots or pentagon symbols representing different rules that must be followed to solve the puzzle.

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 07/03/2026

Speaking of pottery, I’ve been having fun carving this little cliffside town out of a block of clay. Now I’m waiting for it to dry so it can be fired.

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 03/03/2026

Yessss! It has arrived! So excited to play this! @weheart.games

A photograph of a card playing mat with a character from the game Crownfell and the word Crownfell across the bottom. The mat has a grid where cards are to be played. Sitting on top of the play mat are two card boxes for the game. One is labelled “Crownfell” and the other “Crownfell: Last Stand”

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 25/02/2026

I am trying to set up some stuff in the google play console, and I feel like I'm losing my damn mind. What UX Joker organized this?! I was trying to find my app description text. Let's have a look... "Dashboard" Excellent. Let's look there. That's where everything important should be, yes?

Navigation menu from the google play console. Listing: Dashboard, Statistics, Publishing overview, Test and release, Monitor and improve, Grow users, Monetise with Play"

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 19/02/2026

Was testing some Fivefold puzzle generation stuff, and it happened to spit out this puzzle with no starting numbers. It's a fun solve :)

A 5x5 grid with symbols in between some of the cells representing rules that must be followed by those cells.

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 29/01/2026

My latest image of M42 (The Orion Nebula) shot with my Seestar S30 and processed in Siril, Graxpert, and Photoshop. Hoping I can get some more time imaging this, as it’s so beautiful, and I’d love to pull out more details.

A dual-band image (hydrogen-alpha and oxygen III) of the orion nebula (M42). In the center of the image is a large cloud of gas and dust that is lit from within by bright stars. The cloud is pink, orange, and grey/blue. There are bright stars around it and within it. In the top right is a second smaller area of dust and gas lit up by stars within. This one has more blue in it. Around the two glowing areas are stars and dust clouds.

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 05/01/2026

Adding to my intro post to mention the two daily web puzzle games we created in 2025, both of which you can play free in your web browser: Fivefold: fivefold.ca Kickoff League: kickoffleague.com You can find all our games at: milkbag.me

Screenshot of a Kickoff League puzzle. It is a 7x10 grid that looks like a soccer pitch, but with a chess board pattern on top. There are two teams of players on the pitch, represented by blue or purple jerseys. The Blue team jerseys have chess piece icons on them. There are lines showing the path the play has taken so far, and a player with a bishop icon has the ball and there are dots marking which squares they can move to, and an arrow showing where it can pass the ball. In one of the nets there is a target icon showing where the player must get the ball to score.

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 05/01/2026

My very first published crossword puzzle is running on @puzzmo.com today! This was so much fun to make and refine with the help of Puzzmo's editors. You can solve it at www.puzzmo.com

A screenshot of the puzzmo mobile app showing a blank crossword grid with the title "Tug of War" and the text "By Owen Goss. Edited by Madeline Kaplan. Created for Puzzmo's second Open Submission Week."

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 19/12/2025

If anyone needs me over the holidays, this is where you’ll find me

Photo of a fluffy white cat asleep on a couch under a blanket

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 19/12/2025

People traveled many leagues to the palace to attempt the King’s Challenge. For what mortal being would be capable of lifting such an object? It was said that it was fashioned by a Giant Bear people, and that no human could move it, let alone open it and feast on the forbidden nectar inside.

A photograph of a Costco-sized jar of Kraft smooth peanut butter weighing 2 kg (4.4 lbs)

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 12/12/2025

lol nice work, fifa. didn't *quite* hit that amount you posted for group phase ticket prices.

Screenshot from a CBC News article that reads: "FIFA said in September that tickets released through its website would initially range from $60 for group-stage matches to $6,730 for the final. But those prices are subject to change as it adopts dynamic pricing for the first time at the World Cup."

Screenshot from the FIFA tickets website showing a group phase match between Canada and the European Play-off A team at Toronto statium. The cheapest seats are $1300 CAD, and the most expensive are $3035 CAD.

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 09/12/2025

This is a recent forum post, and is this supposed to punish me in some way? This person is denying themselves (and possibly their girlfriend) something they think they would enjoy because no number on Steam will go up if they play it.

Screenshot of a Steam forum post. It is a reply to an original post which states: "Probably would sell more if you had added achievements."
The new post states: "this. waiting since years to buy this, but still no achievements. Gf gifted it today to me, but i have send it back because still not achievements. :("

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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 12/11/2025

Oops, we made another game! Fivefold is a daily logic puzzle where the rules change every day. Play it free in your browser! fivefold.ca

Screenshot of a web puzzle game from a browser. The header says “Fivefold” and “Daily”. The main play area is a 5x5 grid. Some of the grid cells are filled in with large numbers of various colors. Some of the cells have small numbers in them representing possible candidates in those cells. On the edges between some cells are symbols, some are pentagons, some are multiple dots. The dots range in number from 1 to 4 dots. These symbols represent rules telling the player information about the relationship between adjacent cells.

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