Puzzles for Adults and Children
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?
The puzzle Funny Pages has been out for a week now. It turned out to be harder to look up the comics than I intended, so if the hint below doesn’t provide enough help, feel free to reach out for more guidance.
Once you’ve finished that, check out this week’s new puzzle, Evolutionary Theory.
The pictured characters are from the following comic strips, though not in the same order:
Asterix, B.C., Baby Blues, Beetle Bailey, Big Nate, Calvin and Hobbes, Cathy, Dilbert, Eek & Meek, For Better or For Worse, FoxTrot, Garfield, Gasoline Alley, Get Fuzzy, Hagar the Horrible, Jump Start, Krazy Kat, Luann, Monty, Mother Goose and Grimm, MUTTS, Nancy, Peanuts, Pearls Before Swine, and Pickles
Additionally, two of the pictures in the fourth row have been updated to include more context clues for searching.
The November-December metapuzzle, The Missing Piece, has been out for a week now. If you are stuck on solving it, check out the hint below, as well as the solutions to all eight feeder puzzles on the solutions page.
Once you’ve finished that, check out the first puzzle in a new set, Funny Pages.
Every answer in this puzzle is missing a letter. Don’t forget to look for a way to order your answers.
The puzzle Clue Conundrum has been out for a week now. If you are stuck on solving it, check out the hint below.
Once you’ve finished that, check out this week’s metapuzzle, The Missing Piece.
This puzzle seems complicated, but it simply requires following the directions precisely. The first crime is committed by MRS. WHITE in the HALL with the KNIFE.