Kevin's Puzzles

The hint for last week’s Silent Treatment is now available, as is the solution to the puzzle from two weeks ago, Stick Figure Party.

The new puzzle for this week is Camping Trip. It uses a variant ruleset, where tents may be diagonally adjacent to each other, though still not horizontally or vertically. This is the final regular puzzle for this puzzle set. Come back next week for the January-February metapuzzle.

The sixth season of Grant Fikes’ series Kevin’s Puzzles at Home, his homage to this site, is ongoing as well. If anything, these puzzles are a bit easier than mine, and as an added bonus, he donates to a food pantry for every solve. Head on over and solve some puzzles to help the hungry!

The answer to the puzzle each week is a word or short phrase. Enter it into the box below, ignoring any punctuation. Due to a quirk of the setup, answer submissions with unorthodox spacing will take a while to appear on the leaderboard, though the solve time will be properly recorded.

Last Monday, Stick Figure Party was published. The hint is now available, as is the solution to the puzzle from two weeks ago, Souvenir Collection.

The new puzzle for this week is Silent Treatment. A couple clues had multiple answers which could work. In particular, the fourth row now reads “Battle _____ of the Republic”, and the ninth reads “Grape, peach, or apple”. Let me know if you think you’ve found any other ambiguities. Thank you to Grant for helping with these two.

The sixth season of Grant Fikes’ series Kevin’s Puzzles at Home, his homage to this site, is ongoing as well. If anything, these puzzles are a bit easier than mine, and as an added bonus, he donates to a food pantry for every solve. Head on over and solve some puzzles to help the hungry!

The answer to the puzzle each week is a word or short phrase. Enter it into the box below, ignoring any punctuation. Due to a quirk of the setup, answer submissions with unorthodox spacing will take a while to appear on the leaderboard, though the solve time will be properly recorded.

Souvenir Collection came out last Monday, and the hint is now available, as is the solution to Transformations from two weeks ago.

Get ready to boogie down with the new puzzle for this week, Stick Figure Party.

The sixth season of Grant Fikes’ series Kevin’s Puzzles at Home, his homage to this site, is ongoing as well. If anything, these puzzles are a bit easier than mine, and as an added bonus, he donates to a food pantry for every solve. Head on over and solve some puzzles to help the hungry!

The answer to the puzzle each week is a word or short phrase. Enter it into the box below, ignoring any punctuation. Due to a quirk of the setup, answer submissions with unorthodox spacing will take a while to appear on the leaderboard, though the solve time will be properly recorded.

Transformations came out last Monday, and the hint is now available, as is the solution to Ornithology from two weeks ago.

The new puzzle for this week is Souvenir Collection. Check out my cool keepsakes!

The sixth season of Grant Fikes’ series Kevin’s Puzzles at Home, his homage to this site, is ongoing as well. If anything, these puzzles are a bit easier than mine, and as an added bonus, he donates to a food pantry for every solve. Head on over and solve some puzzles to help the hungry!

The answer to the puzzle each week is a word or short phrase. Enter it into the box below, ignoring any punctuation. Due to a quirk of the setup, answer submissions with unorthodox spacing will take a while to appear on the leaderboard, though the solve time will be properly recorded.

Ornithology came out last Monday, and the hint is now available, as is the solution to Break the Ice from two weeks ago.

The new puzzle for this week is Transformations. The words, they are a-changin’.

The sixth season of Grant Fikes’ series Kevin’s Puzzles at Home, his homage to this site, is ongoing as well. If anything, these puzzles are a bit easier than mine, and as an added bonus, he donates to a food pantry for every solve. Head on over and solve some puzzles to help the hungry!

The answer to the puzzle each week is a word or short phrase. Enter it into the box below, ignoring any punctuation. Due to a quirk of the setup, answer submissions with unorthodox spacing will take a while to appear on the leaderboard, though the solve time will be properly recorded.

I hope that everybody who solved the MIT Mystery Hunt this weekend had a great time. Special congratulations to Death and Mayhem on completing the hunt this morning. On a related note, I may be a bit slow about responding to messages as I catch up on sleep. The hint for last week’s Break the Ice is now up, as is the solution to Sidekicks from two weeks ago.

The new puzzle for this week is Ornithology. This one is for the birds.

The sixth season of Grant Fikes’ series Kevin’s Puzzles at Home, his homage to this site, is ongoing as well. If anything, these puzzles are a bit easier than mine, and as an added bonus, he donates to a food pantry for every solve. Head on over and solve some puzzles to help the hungry!

The answer to the puzzle each week is a word or short phrase. Enter it into the box below, ignoring any punctuation. Due to a quirk of the setup, answer submissions with unorthodox spacing will take a while to appear on the leaderboard, though the solve time will be properly recorded.

Sidekicks, the first puzzle of the year, has been out for a full week now, and the hint is now available. The solution to the final metapuzzle of 2023 is up as well. It was a good couple of months, with more than thirty people who solved at least one puzzle in November and December, including twenty-one of you who solved the meta and eleven who scored maximum points. Well done to everybody, and thank you for supporting my passion project for another year!

The new puzzle for this week is Break the Ice. Can you separate the fact from the fiction?

I missed announcing it last week, but Grant Fikes has started up his sixth season of Kevin’s Puzzles at Home, his homage to this site. If anything, these puzzles are a bit easier than mine, and as an added bonus, he donates to a food pantry for every solve. Head on over and solve some puzzles to help the hungry!

The answer to the puzzle each week is a word or short phrase. Enter it into the box below, ignoring any punctuation. Due to a quirk of the setup, answer submissions with unorthodox spacing will take a while to appear on the leaderboard, though the solve time will be properly recorded.

Happy New Year! The hint for last week’s metapuzzle, Be True to Your Elf, is now posted. Well done to the eighteen solvers who have already finished it! The solution is to the final regular puzzle of 2023, † Word, is up as well.

2024 is starting off with the new puzzle, Sidekicks. This is the first puzzle in a new puzzle set for January-February.

The answer to the puzzle each week is a word or short phrase. Enter it into the box below, ignoring any punctuation. Due to a quirk of the setup, answer submissions with unorthodox spacing will take a while to appear on the leaderboard, though the solve time will be properly recorded.

Not That One! was posted two full weeks ago now, and the solution is now up. The hint for last week’s Carnival Games is also available.

The final regular puzzle before the metapuzzle is † Word. There are a couple aspects of the puzzle setting which are non-standard. These are not related to the solution.

The answer to the puzzle each week is a word or short phrase. Enter it into the box below, ignoring any punctuation. Due to a quirk of the setup, answer submissions with unorthodox spacing will take a while to appear on the leaderboard, though the solve time will be properly recorded.