Puzzles for Adults and Children
The solution to Chain-Link Crossing, the puzzle from two weeks ago, has now been posted. Last week’s metapuzzle, Cross the Road, has proven quite difficult, and the hint for that is available as well.
The new puzzle is Meow. This marks the beginning of another never-before-seen puzzle set!
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The May-June metapuzzle Cross the Road has now been out for a week. If you’re needing some help getting started, check out the hint below.
Once you’ve finished that, you can try out the new puzzle for this week, Meow. I know there are at least a few of you who have been eager for a puzzle on this theme.
The chicken crosses the road using three-letter words. Multiple words may be possible, but only one combination will lead to an answer to the riddle posed in the flavor text. Make sure to enter your answers so they follow the flow of traffic.
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Each of the clues leads to a five-letter answer. These answers are:
Each of these answers fit into the grid with its five letters in the five cells surrounding its clue letter or number:
There is a bit of ambiguity around the outside, which is not necessary to resolve in order to solve the puzzle. However, it can also be resolved by discovering that the outer letters, read top-to-bottom and left-to-right, spell out the clue phrase USE UNNUMBERED MIDDLES. This tells us to read the eight lettered (unnumbered) middle squares of the words, which spell out (again in top-to-bottom, left-to-right order, which is also in alphabetical order) the answer PADLOCKS.
Chain-Link Crossing has now been out for a week. If you’re needing some help, check out the hint below.
Once you’ve finished that, you can try out this week’s metapuzzle, Cross the Road. Can you help these chickens out?
Each of the answers is five letters long. Those five letters are placed in the numbered (or lettered) square and the four squares surrounding it. As indicated by the letters on the outside of the grid, the answer may be read from the squares labelled A-H.
Each of the squares must be rotated until all the tubes form a single connected network with no tubes ending randomly at the end of a cell. The completed map looks like this:
The pipes within the white region look like the letters PIPE WRENCH, the answer to this puzzle.
The solution to Cross the Tubes, the puzzle from two weeks ago, has now been posted. The hint for last week’s Chain-Link Crossing is available as well.
The May-June metapuzzle is Cross the Road. Use your answers from the past eight weeks to solve this puzzle. A new puzzle set begins next Monday!
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The solution to Cross-Breeding, the puzzle from two weeks ago, has now been posted. The hint for last week’s Cross the Tubes is available as well.
The final regular puzzle for this set is Chain-Link Crossing. Come back next week for the May-June metapuzzle. As this puzzle was originally borderline impossible, it has been updated as of 5pm CDT on 22 June. You have my sincere apologies.
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Cross the Tubes has now been out for a week. It’s proven to be pretty difficult, so hopefully the interactive version and hint below will be useful.
Once you’ve finished that, you can try out this week’s new puzzle, Chain-Link Crossing. This is the final feeder puzzle before next week’s metapuzzle.
Rotate the tubes to create a single linked system with no tubes ending at gray lines. You may play an interactive version of the puzzle here. Once you have finished this step, focus on the white squares.
Each of these creatures is a blend of two different pokémon: CETITAN and FALINKS, CONKELDURR and HOUNDSTONE, HITMONLEE and METAGROSS, HOOTHOOT and PARASECT, and MUDKIP and PIDGEY. After identifying the pokémon, the key to solving this puzzle is noticing that each pair of pokémon have names that are the same length.
Each pair of pokémon also share exactly one letter which is in the same position for both (i.e., both CETITAN and FALINKS have an I in the fourth position). The pairs of pokémon are also all different lengths, one set each for lengths from six up to ten letters. Ordering the matching letters by length of the pokémon names give the answer DITTO.
The solution to Criss Cross Clues, the puzzle from two weeks ago, has now been posted. The hint for last week’s Cross-Breeding is available as well.
The new puzzle this week is Cross the Tubes. As always, connections are vital.
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