[Hint] Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? – 29 April 2024

Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?, the final regular puzzle of March-April, has been out for a week, and there is a hint below.

Once you’ve finished that. check out the metapuzzle of this puzzle set, Back to Basics. This one isn’t too hard if you look at it from the right direction.

The correct answers tell you what encoding to use to get letters from each student’s correct and incorrect responses.

[Hint] Fractured Fairy Tales – 22 April 2024

The puzzle Fractured Fairy Tales has been out for a week now. If you need a hint, there is one below.

The final puzzle of this set is Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? Come back next week for the March-April metapuzzle.

I am telling quite the story, but who did those tales originally belong to? Some of them don’t have given names; refer to them the same way their stories do. Each sentence besides the first will give one letter.

[Hint] Allergic Reaction – 15 April 2024

The puzzle Allergic Reaction has been out for a week now. Feeling stuck? Check out the hint below.

Fractured Fairy Tales is this week’s puzzle. Can you tell whose stories I am telling?

Look at the third clue (Dylan had a reaction one day before somebody had a reaction to pecans and one day after somebody got a stuffy nose.) and fifth clue (The reaction to shellfish happened the day before the reaction to milk. Those two allergens caused dizziness and hives, in some order.) Those clues describe two sets of days which cannot overlap. You will have some extra letters at the end.

[Hint] Metacross – 4 March 2024

Metacross, the January-February metapuzzle, has been out for a full week now, and as such, there is a hint for it below.

This week brings Job Titles, the start of the March-April puzzle set. Can you name the jobs?

The colored bars can be converted to squares, with each puzzle answer fitting into a single row or column.

[Hint] Camping Trip – 26 February 2024

The final regular puzzle of this set, Camping Trip, has been out for a week. If you’re stuck, check below for some hints.

This week brings Metacross, the metapuzzle for January-February. Come back next week for the start of a new puzzle set.

This is a Tents (a.k.a. Tents and Trees) logic puzzle, with a variant rule set which allows tents to be diagonally adjacent. I suggest starting with determining where the three tents for the top row can go, and then looking at the rows which have particularly large or small numbers.