WSWC’s Wine Punk & Chill!

West Sea Wine Cellars is thrilled to usher in the cozy fall and winter season with our Wine Punk experience — where our shop transforms into your community hang space. Each week, we’ll feature rotating wine flights, themed evenings, and a chance to sip, snack, and simply be.

Whether you bring a partner, a group of friends, or just yourself, you’ll always have a spot here.

Wine Flights Daily (Wed-Sat): $20 for non-members | Free for members +1

Food: Support West Seattle’s amazing restaurants — bring food or order in and make it a night!

📅 Starting October 2025

🍷 Wednesdays: Sip & Stitch (or Sketch) | 4-7 pm
Your midweek creative reset! Bring your favorite hobby — knitting, crosswords, books, art — and let wine be your muse. Two cozy floors of space await your projects, your friends, and your favorite takeout.

🍷 Thursdays: Bingo with Brandon | 6-7 pm
Brandon is calling the numbers (when he’s not flying planes ✈️). Get ready for lively bingo nights with prizes: win gift certificates to use that very night! Bingo only happens on nights Brandon is in town. Stay connected weekly for updates!

🍷 Fridays: Game On, West Sea! | 4-7 pm
It’s Friday night, and we’ve got the wine and games to kickstart your weekend. Choose your own adventure — board games, card games, or group fun. This is your end-of-week ritual: sip, play, unwind.

🍷 Saturdays: Mystery Loft Sessions | 12-5 pm
Step into intrigue upstairs in our Mystery Loft. Two long-form puzzles will challenge our community all season long:

Cain’s Jawbone –
the legendary literary murder puzzle.

The Secret: A Treasure Hunt –
a cryptic quest waiting to be cracked.

Will you help solve them?

*Scroll down to read about each mystery

✨ Join us for Wine Punk & Chill and make WSWC your fall/winter gathering spot. Wine, friends, mystery, games — it’s all here waiting for you.

What Cain’s Jawbone Is

Cain’s Jawbone is one of the most notorious literary puzzles ever created. Written in 1934 by Edward Powys Mathers (under the pseudonym “Torquemada”), it’s not just a murder mystery — it’s a 100-page book with its pages deliberately printed out of order.

The challenge:

Put the pages back in their correct sequence.

Untangle the interwoven narratives.

Identify the six murder victims and their killers.

Sounds simple? It isn’t. With over 32 million possible page orders, it’s considered one of the hardest puzzles in literary history. In fact, only a handful of people have ever solved it correctly.

Today, Cain’s Jawbone has become a cult favorite among puzzle lovers, mystery fans, and codebreakers who want to test their logic, patience, and imagination against a nearly impossible challenge.

What The Secret: A Treasure Hunt Is
The Secret: A Treasure Hunt is a legendary real-world puzzle book created by Byron Preiss in 1982. Inside the book are 12 elaborate riddles, each pairing a poem with a fantastical painting. Together, they hide clues pointing to buried treasures — small ceramic casques — hidden in cities across North America.

Each casque contains a key that can be redeemed for a precious jewel. But here’s the twist: even though thousands of treasure hunters have tried, only three of the twelve have ever been found. The rest are still out there, waiting to be unearthed more than 40 years later.

The book blends art, poetry, mythology, and geography into one of the most enduring treasure hunts in modern history, sparking a cult following of puzzle-solvers who still chase its secrets today.