the band announced the title of the new album, "pretty. odd.", through their website on january 9, and dropped the "!" from their band name at the same time. the band explained by saying "we've just traded the exclamation point for a few periods." they announced the next day that they would be headlining the honda civic tour in support of the album. the band then began a second puzzle on january 17, challenging fans to find puzzle pieces scattered throughout panic-related websites, in order to reveal the album cover. the cover was officially revealed on january 22. four days later, a new scavenger hunt was hidden on the official site, showing the tracklist of the album and offering a prize to the first three people who could find all 15 song titles for the new album. this was completed later that day.