The Puzzling Case That Was 2020

 A few years ago, I began creating puzzles for this blog, which is supposed to focus on games and such anyway.  One instance was a series of puzzles based on some of the top media of the previous year.  That first batch had titles that were slightly ribald with double entendres.  I intentionally used the permalink for each post to maximize the naughtiness.  Nothing too major though.  I don't think anyone got into any trouble by having such titles visible on their screens.  Anyway, the puzzles consisted of trying to guess the original title of a work based solely on a paraphrase.  For instance, "Your Physicality Resembles a Rural Unpaved Driving Surface" for Sam Hunt's "Body Like a Back Road."  (By the way, the paraphrase is not as much of a complement as the original title is.)  I followed up the original series the next year, with more paraphrases of movie, song, television series, and book titles.  However, last year, I didn't.  There were so many short titles, that it would have been hard to come up with decent paraphrases.  Therefore, I did an emoji puzzle instead.  Actually, I did two.  I did a test puzzle with television series titles a few months before I did one with song titles.  This year, I think I will go back to paraphrases, but with some catches.  There weren't enough theatrical movie releases last year to come up with a good puzzle.  (I don't keep up with streaming services enough to consider them.)  Many television series were postponed due to the pandemic, so I don't really have a good enough base for those either.  Book titles might work, but it is going to be much harder to come up with a good list this time around, as most of my information has been downloaded to my computer.  I find searching through PDFs to be much harder than looking through physical catalogs.  Therefore, I will only be doing a music title puzzle.  Or make that two.  Starting next week, I will be sharing two different puzzle.  First a paraphrase puzzle, then an emoji puzzle the following week.  Both will be based on many of the top songs of last year.  I will be repeating the rules with each, just so people who miss this post won't feel left out.  Be ready to get your game on!