Puzzles for Adults and Children
The puzzle Coats of Arms has been out for a week now. If you’re struggling, check out the hint below.
The puzzle this week is Bread and Butter. Hopefully you’ll find it delicious.
Each of the coats of arms represents a letter in one of the following: Braille, dancing men cipher, flag semaphore, international maritime signal flags, Morse code, pigpen cipher, and Dr. Seuss. Your answer will not be a common word, but it will be relevant to the puzzle theme.
The puzzle Sound Initials has been out for a week now. If you’re struggling, check out the hint below.
The puzzle this week is Coats of Arms. Each of the coats has a hidden meaning.
Words in the first column sound like words in the second column if you add the sound of a letter to their front. For example, a SON becomes a SEASON, or C-SON, if you prefer.
The puzzle Some Sums has been out for a week now. If you’re struggling, check out the hint below.
This week’s new puzzle is Sound Initials. We’ve gone from a math puzzle to a reading one.
Each of the letters in the puzzle stands for the same digit from 0-9 wherever it appears. The question marks also stand for digits, but you will have to translate them into their respective letters to solve the puzzle.
We can see from the first step of the division problem that AR-HT=Y, so A must be one greater than H. Look for other relationships between numbers and use those to solve.
The metapuzzle Ordered Series has been out for a week now. If you’re struggling, check out the hint below.
This week’s new puzzle is Some Sums. It’s the first puzzle in the new March-April puzzle set.
The seven things given in this puzzle are the first, second, third, etc. objects in seven different sets. Each of the answers to the previous seven puzzles is also a member of one of those sets.
The puzzle Pungent Puns has been out for a week now. If you’re struggling, check out the hint below.
The metapuzzle for January-February is Ordered Series. Check it out once you’ve completed last week’s puzzle, or give it a go anyway if you’re still stuck.
The sentences have been split up into their component clues to make them easier to understand. The first one has been given as an example. Two of the clues cannot be broken up, but still lead to a two-word phrase which sounds like a single word.
| First Word Clue | Second Word Clue | Combined Word Clue |
| fellows (MEN) | mystical glow (AURA) | candelabra (MENORAH) |
| Colony member | runs off to get married | deer |
| needlefish | burrow | flower bed |
| hotel | peer group | harm |
| desert | enchantress | lunch, perhaps |
| oak or maple | child | Betrayal |
| uncooked | monarch | moving back and forth |
| Noah’s boat | assistant | gaming center |
| discuss | transgressions | poisons |
| Norse epic | bovine | Consumable |
| What a pen makes when writing (2 wds.) | slope | |
| sister | throws | weapon |
| platter | Sorento | airway |
| treefolk | wrath | full |
| garden decoration | commercial | wanderer |
| Part of a swimming pool (2 wds.) | rely | |
| What someone with a phobia might say | mouth | gum |
| campus housing | something found in the freezer | animals |
You will get a clue phrase, which clues a pun of an eight-letter word.
The puzzle Everything Must Go! has been out for a week now. If you’re struggling, check out the hint below.
Once you’ve finished that, check out Pungent Puns, the new puzzle for this week.
Here is an easier version of the puzzle, with both the full and 50% off answers clued.
The puzzle Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia has been out for a week now. If you’re struggling, check out the hint below.
Once you’ve finished that, check out this week’s new clearance sale puzzle, Everything Must Go!.
Finding a list of the longest words in English may be helpful. The numbers tell you which letters you will need to form new words.
The puzzle Short-Changed has been out for a week now. If you’re struggling, check out the hint below.
Once you’ve finished that, check out this week’s new puzzle, Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia.
The abbreviations clued on the left can be transformed in a consistent way to form the abbreviations on the right. Once you get to your final phrase, you will need to repeat the same transformation to get a three-letter answer.
The puzzle Betrayal! has been out for a week now. If you’re struggling, check out the hint below.
Once you’ve finished that, check out this week’s new puzzle, Short-Changed. It’s like looking in a mirror.
Once you find the characters who were betrayed, repeat the process one more time. This puzzle includes three characters from animated Disney movies, and two from Shakespeare plays.
The puzzle Evolutionary Theory has been out for a week now. If you’re struggling, check out the hint below.
Once you’ve finished that, check out this week’s new puzzle, Betrayal!.
After you find all thirty hidden pokémon, read the leftover letters for the next step. The pokémon used in this puzzle are all from the first generation of games. Besides that, what else do they have in common evolutionarily?