Puzzles for Adults and Children
Solvers can transfer the letters from the answers they figure out to the same-number boxes into the grid, and work back and forth to complete the puzzle. The completed puzzle looks like this:
The words in the grid read WORD THAT IS REPEATED FOUR TIMES IN THE TITLE OF A DR. SEUSS BOOK. The answer is FISH, from One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.
Holiday Hijinks has been out for a week now. Check the hint below if you are struggling.
Once you finish with that, check out the new puzzle, Letterfall. The letters, they are a-droppin’.
Each of the described holidays is one letter off from a real holiday. Those changes will be important in finding your answer.
The hint for last week’s puzzle, Holiday Hijinks, has been uploaded. The solution to Words and More Words, the puzzle from two weeks ago, has also been posted.
This week’s puzzle is Letterfall. Let’s see what answer shakes out!
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!
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Each of these matchups is from the game RPS-101, an overly-complicated variant of Rock, Paper, Scissors. The easiest way to determine this is by identifying the pictures, then searching for a website that includes all the words. This page is the easiest way to look up the outcomes of every matchup.
The given matchups resolve like this:
Words and More Words has been out for a week now. Check the hint below if you are struggling.
Once you finish with that, check out the new puzzle, Holiday Hijinks. Can you identify these newly-coined holidays?
Each of the answers is one word, not a phrase. The lengths are as follows:
The hint for last week’s puzzle, Words and More Words, has been uploaded. The solution to Ultimate Battle, the puzzle from two weeks ago, has also been posted.
This week’s puzzle is Holiday Hijinks. It’s Memorial Day in the US today.
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!
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The four instructions below the image can each be applied independently to select certain squares.
The selected squares form letters which spell out the answer, BITS.
Ultimate Battle has been out for a week now. It requires some esoteric knowledge or, more likely, some skill with internet searches. Check out the hint below if you are struggling.
Once you finish with that, check out the new puzzle, Words and More Words. Find the words, and then use them to find more words!
If you search for the names of the objects featured in the pictures, you will find an advanced (and ridiculous) version of Rock, Paper, Scissors. You will need to find the verbs describing the outcomes of each battle.
The hint for last week’s puzzle, Ultimate Battle, has been uploaded. The solution to the first puzzle of May, Not a Robot, has also been posted.
This week’s puzzle is Words and More Words. So many words; so little time.
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!
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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.