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[Solution] Star-Crossed Meta

The eight solutions to the feeder puzzles were ABEILLE, ACTUARY, CORRUPT, CUE BALL, LETTERS, SALTANT, SAUSAGE, and SURGERY. Each of these answers is exactly seven letters long, and solvers may notice that they share many of the same first and last letters. In fact, the words can overlap these letters to form two separate squares, which can overlap to make this eight-pointed star:

From this star, reading the intersections, colored here in green, clockwise from the L spells out the answer LAUREATE, a person who is honored for their intellectual achievement, as each of you should be. Depending on how solvers arranged the words, it may be necessary to read either clockwise or counter-clockwise, but there is only one eight-letter word to be found in these letters.

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[Puzzle] Ultimate Battle – 12 May 2025

The hint for last week’s puzzle, Not a Robot, has been uploaded. The solution to the March-April metapuzzle has been posted as well. Congratulations to all seventeen of you who solved it!

This week’s puzzle is Ultimate Battle. In this clash of titans, who will win, and how?

Remember that Grant Fikes is in the midst of his tenth season of Kevin’s Puzzles at Home, his homage to this site. These puzzles run to the easier side, and for every solve, he donates to a food bank. Go check it out!

Please enter your answer below, leaving out all punctuation.

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    [Solution] Glitchygram

    In this nonogram puzzle, many of the clues have been obscured. However, since each clue must be at least one and surrounded by white clues, the puzzle is still solvable:

    The pattern of blocks within the 2×3 glitchy regions can be read as Braille letters, spelling out the answer CORRUPT.

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    [Puzzle] Not a Robot – 5 May 2025

    The hint for the March-April metapuzzle, Star-Crossed Meta, has been uploaded. You have one more week to join the fourteen other people who have solved it! To help you out, the solution to the final feeder puzzle, Glitchygram, has also been posted.

    The May-June puzzle set begins with Not a Robot! Can you prove your humanity and solve the puzzle?

    Also this week, Grant Fikes has started his tenth season of Kevin’s Puzzles at Home. These puzzles run to the easier side, and for every solve, he donates to a food bank. Go check it out!

    Please enter your answer below, leaving out all punctuation.

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      [Solution] Dot Matrix

      Each of the dots in the puzzle has a clue with an answer that either is or sounds like an English letter, a Greek letter, or a number. Of those three sets, only the English letters is complete. Connecting each letter from A to Z gives the following:

      At a diagonal from upper-left to lower-right, the line forms the answer LETTERS, written in cursive.

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      [Hint] Glitchygram

      The puzzle Glitchygram has been out for a week now. If you’re struggling, check out the hint below.

      Once you have that answer, check out the Star-Crossed Meta. Your eight previous answers from March and April will have you seeing stars.

      This is a nonogram puzzle, but many of the numbers have been glitched out. However, each glitched hint still represents a single group of at least one black cell. Try starting with columns six and fourteen and rows three and eight to get some black squares on the board.

      The seven glitchy 2×3 regions in the grid will each hold an encoded letter when the puzzle is shaded correctly.

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      [Meta] Star-Crossed Meta – 28 April 2025

      The hint for last week’s Glitchygram has been uploaded, as has the solution to Dot Matrix from two weeks ago.

      The March-April metapuzzle is Star-Crossed Meta! Use your answers to the previous eight puzzles to find the solution. A new puzzle set begins next Monday!

      Please enter your answer below, leaving out all punctuation.

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        [Solution] Honeycomb

        This is a simplified version of a rows garden puzzle. Across answers fit into their listed rows in order, and the white, yellow, and gold clues fit into the hexagons of their color, going either clockwise or counter-clockwise as indicated. Combining these two types of clues allows the grid to be completed as so:

        The only letters which are not clued twice are the top six letters and bottom six letters. Read out, they spell the phrase FRENCH FOR BEE. The French word for bee is ABEILLE.