Brain Teasers San Francisco

CrafTea Meetup

**1st & 3rd Fridays \| 5:00–7:00 PM \| Teance Fine Teas** Unwind at the end of your week with a cozy evening of tea, creativity, and community. Bring your latest craft project and settle in with fellow makers and tea lovers for a relaxed, welcoming gathering. Whether you enjoy knitting, crocheting, beading, drawing, sketching, calligraphy or another creative endeavor — any *portable* project is welcome. Enjoy a thoughtfully curated tea flight to be served throughout the evening, always including a soothing caffeine-free herbal option. ***Come sip, craft, and connect ✨*** \*\*Feel free to bring your own dinner, just be sure to clean up after yourself.

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)

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

Letter Writing & Tea @ Teance Fine Teas - Sunday July 12th

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!

Puzzles & Pinot: Puzzical Chairs

This event is to attend Assemble Puzzlery's Puzzles and Pinot: Puzzical Chairs game at Best Friends in Albany. Casual puzzling is free and drop-in. If you want to participate in speed puzzling you will need to register with [Assemble Puzzlery](https://assemblepuzzlery.com/pages/events)[ ](https://assemblepuzzlery.com/collections/puzzles-and-pinot-mothers-day-edition-5-10-26)directly. Bring a puzzle for the swap table! Let's puzzle!

Lush trails, great views: Steep Ravine, Old Mine, Easy Grade, Dipsea 6.3m/1.6k'⬆

Brainstormer Trivia @ Emeryville Public Market

Join us for trivia at Emeryville public market. Plenty of food and drink options at the market! Trivia starts at 6

Puzzle Night at Gilman Brewing

This Meetup is to attend Puzzle Night at Gilman Brewing on July 15th 6-9pm. There will be free casual puzzling tables, a puzzle swap and a speed puzzling competition. If you want to compete in speed puzzling you do need to [register ](https://assemblepuzzlery.com/pages/events)at Assemble Puzzlery who puts on the event. Hope to see you all there to puzzle together!

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!

Wednesday Night Trivia at The Willows

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!

Do the Laws of History Exist?

Event hosted by Sergei. No philosophy background needed. Come curious. Can we predict the future course of historical development? Many thinkers have claimed to identify the Laws of History in the same manner as Galileo and Newton identified the laws of motion. But have they succeeded? **Please [read the following before the event](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DdhgFsB_7Kcw29QFaFxIb8D8w4PqhGex/view?usp=sharing).**