Puzzles for Adults and Children
The solution to Diagramless Minicrosswords, the puzzle from two weeks ago, has now been posted. The hint for last week’s Criss Cross Clues is available as well.
The new puzzle this week is Cross-Breeding. Can you identify these new species?
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Criss Cross Clues has now been out for a week. If you need a hint on where to start, check below.
Once you’ve finished that, you can try out this week’s new puzzle, Cross-Breeding. How were these interesting creatures made?
The full word list for this puzzle is:
EDEN
HEEL
HEIR
HOOF
OAHU
ROOM
AMBER
CHARM
CHART
DEBUG
DOUBT
DREAM
HELEN
HOMES
IGLOO
ILIAD
IVORY
OMAHA
OMEGA
ORANG
REELS
REIGN
SLEEP
TITLE
BOLERO
DURIAN
FAMILY
FIDGET
HAIRDO
METRIC
WICKED
BROTHER
EMPTIER
TORNADO
CASHMERE
ELEPHANT
HABANERO
INCREASE
Once you have the grid filled in, the answer will be visible, but not vertically or horizontally.
In these diagramless crosswords, the black squares and numbers are not given in the grid and have to be determined based on the answers and how they can fit together. The completed grids look like this:
Once the grids are complete, the white squares in each grid make the shape of a letter. In order, these letters spell out the answer REPROGRAM.
The solution to Crossed Words, the puzzle from two weeks ago, has now been posted. The hint for last week’s Diagramless Minicrosswords is available as well.
The new puzzle this week is Criss Cross Clues. Can you solve the clues and criss cross the answers?
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Diagramless Minicrosswords has now been out for a week. If you need a hint on where to start, check below.
Once you’ve finished that, you can try out this week’s new puzzle, Criss Cross Clues. All the answers are criss-crossing away.
In each minicrossword, the only numbers appear at the start of words, and they go in numerical order from top-left to bottom-right. Every grid except for one has the number one in the top-left square. The eighth grid has the 1 in the square directly to the right of the top-left one.
This is a normal crossword, except that three of the entries (8-Across, 23-Across, and 15-Down) are unclued. The completed grid looks like this:
In clue order, the three unclued entries make the phrase FEAR TOWARD THIRTEEN. This is a clue for the answer, TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA. One extra nod to this is that the grid for this puzzle is 13×13.
The solution to Compound Cross has now been posted, as has the solution to Picross-Country. Everything is now back on schedule after the change in hosting. Last week’s Crossed Words has its hint up as well.
The new puzzle this week is Diagramless Minicrosswords. Each of these bite-sized grids will provide one piece of the puzzle answer.
Please enter your answer below, leaving out all punctuation.
Crossed Words has now been out for a week. If you need a hint on where to start, check below.
Once you’ve finished that, you can try out this week’s new puzzle, Diagramless Minicrosswords. Numbers and black squares not included.
The three unclued answers in clue order (8-Across, 23-Across, 15-Down) spell out a final clue to the seventeen-letter answer to the puzzle.
This puzzle type is known alternatively as nonogram and picross. Each row or column heading tells the size in order of each of the connected stretches of black cells in that row or column. This one has a relatively straightforward solving path, beginning by using the longest clues to figure out which cells must be black, and using those cells to figure out which cells in the crossing rows must be white, continuing from there.
As suggested by the title of the puzzle, the completed grid looks like a map of a country, and a little research will reveal that this country is PANAMA.
No new solutions have been posted this week, but the hint for Compound Cross has been posted, as has the hint for Picross-Country. Both puzzles will be open to be solved for one more week, at which point their solutions will be posted and we will be back on schedule.
Speaking of new puzzles, this week’s puzzle is Crossed Words. I think you know what to do with this one.
As always please do let me know if you have any problems with the site. I have moved to a new host, and everything should have transferred correctly, but you never know.
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