Puzzles for Adults and Children
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.
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.
Cross-Breeding 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 the Tubes. Can you make it through the twists and turns to solve this puzzle?
Once you’ve identified the pairs of pokémon which have been combined, try comparing the names letter-by-letter.
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.
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.
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.
The puzzle from 4 May, Compound Cross, has now had its delayed hint posted below. You have one additional week to attempt to solve it.
Once you’ve finished that, the hint has also been released for last week’s puzzle, Picross-Country. How well do you know your countries?
Each of these clues will give a compound word as an answer. Each compound word can be split into its two halves to fit in the grids.
The puzzle from last week, Compound Cross, is now available to solve with a hint for half points. The hint is shown below.
Once you’ve finished that, check out the new puzzle for this week, Crossed Words. It feels like there is a missing clue.
The completed picross puzzle will give you a picture of a country. The answer is the name of that country.
Last month’s Metapuzzle Mix-Up has now been out for a week. If you need a hint on where to start, check below.
Once you’ve finished that, start off the new puzzle set with Compound Cross. Can you cross the compounds?
This puzzle consists of exactly eight words, and you also have eight puzzle answers. This is not a coincidence.
Lizard Breath has now been out for a week. If you need a hint on where to start, check below.
Once you’ve finished that, combine it with the rest of your answers to solve the new Metapuzzle Mix-Up. I would suggest writing down all your answers from the past eight weeks.
There are thirteen related words in this puzzle, some originating in other languages. Once you’ve marked them all, it may be helpful to take a step back and look at the puzzle from a wider view.