<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The Bench</title><description>A small notebook of weekend projects: party games, generators, music and MIDI tools, small hardware builds.</description><link>https://example.com/</link><language>en</language><item><title>Birthday crosswords made of private jokes</title><link>https://example.com/posts/birthday-arrow-words/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://example.com/posts/birthday-arrow-words/</guid><description>Five arrow-word grids for Lo&apos;s birthday, built from 157 words only his friends would get. Notes from writing my own generator, and why every grid still had to be rewritten by hand.</description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>puzzles</category><category>experiments</category></item><item><title>Custom paint-by-numbers for a holiday with friends</title><link>https://example.com/posts/paint-by-numbers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://example.com/posts/paint-by-numbers/</guid><description>One box of acrylics, a stack of A3 paper and a poster for each guest. Notes from building my own paint-by-numbers kits, and what happened when people started painting.</description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>painting</category><category>experiments</category></item><item><title>Building a TV game show for a house party</title><link>https://example.com/posts/grand-quiz-yport/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://example.com/posts/grand-quiz-yport/</guid><description>Three teams, a big screen and everyone&apos;s phone as a buzzer. Notes from building Le Grand Quiz d&apos;Yport, and what turned out to be hard.</description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>games</category><category>experiments</category></item></channel></rss>