Puzzles for Kids and Adults
Last week’s puzzle was Nono-Nonsense Puzzling. If you are having trouble getting started, check out the hint below.
You Light Up My Life is the new puzzle for this week. Can you light up the grid as well?
This is a nonogram puzzle. You can solve it online here. Once you have the grid solved, it may be helpful to look at each quarter separately.
Nearly twenty people have solved the March-April metapuzzle, Back to Basics. If you’re working to join them, check out this hint.
Once you’ve finished that, the first puzzle of May-June is Nono-Nonsense Puzzling. This puzzle set will rely more on existing puzzle forms than creative design, but hopefully the puzzles themselves are still a fun diversion.
The answers to the puzzles have somehow all been reversed. To solve this metapuzzle, you will have to fix that!
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.
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.
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.
The puzzle Sandwich Shop has been out for a week now. Feeling stuck? Check out the hint below.
This week’s puzzle is Allergic Reaction. Yes, it is yet another food-themed puzzle. Hopefully you are hungry.
[CORN]B[READ] is an example of Southern food. The slices of bread are given in alphabetical order.
The puzzle Fantastical Journeys was uploaded a week ago. An updated version, based on feedback is now available, as is the hint below.
This week’s puzzle is Sandwich Shop Trainee. If last week’s puzzle left a bad taste in your mouth, try this one as a palate cleanser.
As you plot the journeys, you will end up visiting certain locations more than once.
The puzzle Vegetable Soup has been out for a week now. Feeling stuck? Check out the hint below.
This week’s puzzle is Fantastical Journeys. Who knows what lies on the path ahead?
After you find what is missing, you can either order the vegetables alphabetically or by color.
Last week’s puzzle, A Hairy Situation, is a relatively simple one. However, if you need a little nudge, check out the hint below.
This week’s puzzle is Vegetable Soup. Sometimes the secret ingredient is in you the whole time.
The hair on the lower left belongs to Superman. It should be very possible to look up all of these hairstyles based on a few choice keywords.
Last week’s puzzle, Job Titles, has been out for a full week now, and as such, there is a hint for it below.
The new puzzle is A Hairy Situation. These ‘dos are iconic.
I tried to call my anesthesiologist, but I accidentally dialed the wrong number.
I was in the mood for some lemon meringue, so I drove to the coast to visit the pier.