Brain Teasers San Francisco

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

🧩 **It's a Puzzle & Lunch Party! -- The Game Parlour** 🔆 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.

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 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)

Letter Writing & Tea @ Teance Fine Teas - Sunday May 24th

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!

Puzzled Pint

Laser Cutter Safety Training

Learn how to be safe while using the laser cutter! We have a 150W, CO2 laser cutter with a 3 x 4 ft bed. This training is required to use the laser cutter because we don't want people setting our most expensive equipment donation on fire. You have to do this training even if you were trained at the old space, as we have different safety features now. Training covers * Dangers of the laser cutter * How to be safe * How to put out a fire Each participant will cut a piece of cardboard on the laser cutter while following all the safety steps. This is also a good place to ask questions about specific materials or projects. There is a 5$ fee to register, and we suggest a 20-30$ donation for this class: https://donate.noisebridge.net. If the registration fee is a barrier to your participation, please reach out to the event organisers.

Sorting Party for Community Build: The Six Portals

This Meetup is to attend the sorting party for Assemble Puzzlery's Community Build: The Six Portals. This is a free event but they do ask that you [RSVP](https://assemblepuzzlery.com/collections/community-build-the-six-portals?utm_campaign=7%2C000+Pieces.+One+Community.+Can+we+do+it%3F_168933130425&utm_medium=email&utm_source=shopify_email). The big build is the following Sunday, June 7th. Check out that event too! May 31st 1-3: just get together at Gilman Brewing to sort pieces for the 7,000 piece Ravebsburger puzzle, The Six Portals. Sunday June 7th: come during one, two or three of the build shifts to assemble The Six Portals. Why? Why not?

Community Build: The Six Portals

This Meetup is to attend Assemble Puzzlery's Community Build: The Six Portals. This is a free event but they do ask that you [RSVP](https://assemblepuzzlery.com/collections/community-build-the-six-portals?utm_campaign=7%2C000+Pieces.+One+Community.+Can+we+do+it%3F_168933130425&utm_medium=email&utm_source=shopify_email). Keep in mind that the puzzle might be finished before the end... but maybe we'll do it twice! There is also a pre-event on May 31st May 31st 1-3: just get together at Gilman Brewing to sort pieces for the 7,000 piece Ravebsburger puzzle, The Six Portals. Sunday June 7th: come during one, two or three of the build shifts to assemble The Six Portals. Why? Why not?

Free Jigsaw Puzzle Night @ Ace Makerspace

YOU MUST RSVP/PURCHASE TICKETS THROUGH THE ACE MAKERSPACE WEBSITE: [www.acemakerspace.org/calendar](https://www.acemakerspace.org/calendar/) 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.

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!

John Vervaeke - How Minds Find What Matters

For this session, we'll be reading John Vervaeke, Timothy Lillicrap, and Blake Richards’ paper “Relevance Realization and the Emerging Framework in Cognitive Science.” Up to this point, many of our discussions have focused on consciousness, experience, and the mind’s relation to the world. This paper shifts the focus to a deeper problem underlying cognition itself: how do minds figure out what matters? Vervaeke and his co-authors argue that many classic problems in cognitive science — problem solving, categorization, rationality, action, communication, and the frame problem — all depend on the same hidden capacity: relevance realization. Cognitive agents must somehow zero in on the relevant features of a situation while ignoring an indefinite background of possible alternatives. The paper argues that we should not look for a theory of “relevance” as if relevance were a fixed property things have. Instead, we need a theory of the mechanisms by which relevance is realized dynamically, context-sensitively, and non-circularly. On their view, cognition is not best understood as rule-governed symbol manipulation alone, but as a self-organizing process that balances competing pressures: generality and specificity, exploration and exploitation, efficiency and resilience. The reading can be found in the [discord](https://discord.gg/4cMTjf3Qhr) in the sf-philosophy-reading-group channel

Trivia Night at the Patriot House in San Francisco