[Meta] Gridlocked! – 24 June 2024

Five by Five was released a week ago, and the hint is now posted. The solution to Party Planning, the puzzle from two weeks ago, is up as well.

This week’s brings the May-June metapuzzle, Gridlocked! To solve this metapuzzle, you will need the solutions and grids from the past seven weeks.

Once you finish that, check out Grant Fikes’ seventh season of Kevin’s Puzzles at Home, his homage to this site. Normally, he posts word puzzles every Wednesday, but during Kevin’s Puzzles at Home, he posts a simple puzzle hunt puzzle each Monday, twelve hours before my puzzles. What’s more, he donates to a food pantry for every solve, so head on over and solve some puzzles to help the hungry!

The answer to the puzzle each week is a word or short phrase. Enter it into the box below, ignoring any punctuation. Due to a quirk of the setup, answer submissions with unorthodox spacing will take a while to appear on the leaderboard, though the solve time will be properly recorded.