The five-puzzle mini-suite I created for Puzzled Pint, “Circular Reasoning,” is now available on the Puzzled Pint Web site. There’s a whole lot of free puzzles here, so you might want to dip into the archive while you’re at it.

For over a year now, I’ve been posting a daily puzzle on Twitter, inspired by whatever the Word of the Day is, as presented by Merriam-Webster. It’s a fun morning exercise, to get my puzzler’s brain warmed up. You can follow along at @puzzlereric.

Merriam-Webster’s word today, fittingly enough, is CUPID. Here’s the puzzle I came up with:

Cupid is getting a bit weird, shooting his arrows not just at people but at objects. He’s matched up one picture from the top row with one from the bottom row according to a certain rule. Can you figure out that rule and therefore which pictures he thinks make great matches?

(Click to enlarge the image.)

I’ll post the answer in the comments tomorrow. No spoilers, please!

On Tuesday, February 11, I’ll be the featured puzzlemaker at Puzzled Pint! Solve a few fun puzzles and have a drink or two while you’re doing it!

Click the link to see if the event is hosted in your city. If it is, here’s how to find out which bar to attend: This coming Friday, a “location puzzle” will go live on the Puzzled Pint Web site. Solve that (it won’t be hard, and there will be hints), type in your answer, and you’ll see a list of cities and bars.

Alas, Puzzled Pint isn’t hosted anywhere near me, so I won’t be able to watch my puzzles get solved. If you do attend, let me know how it goes!