Tag: News

This site has now been live for four years, and I continue to tinker with it behind the scenes. The answer logger now properly deals with spaces, so starting with the September-October puzzle set it should no longer be necessary to either include or not include spaces in your answer submissions. (Previously, the answers were being recorded as correct regardless of spaces, but they were not automatically added to the leaderboard. This caused some solvers to worry that their answers weren’t being logged.)

With the new season starting, the hint for the July-August metapuzzle, Mastermind, is now available, as is the solution to the previous puzzle, Pair Off.

September-October starts off with the new puzzle, All That Jazz. Can you find the message hidden in these sweet bars?

The answer to the puzzle each week is a word or short phrase. Enter it into the box below, ignoring any punctuation.

Hello, everybody! It’s a new month, which brings the beginning of a whole new puzzle set! This is the first themed set on this site, and the meta will work a little differently. You will need not only the solutions to the puzzles, but also their completed grids in order to complete the meta.

On the subject of metapuzzles, congratulations to all nineteen of you who solved last week’s meta. The hint for it, as well as the solution to the final feeder puzzle are both available for anybody who hasn’t solved it yet.

The first of seven gridded puzzles over the next two months is Nono-Nonsense Puzzling. Complete the grid to find a one-word answer, then save both the answer and the grid.

Another bit of news for this week is the return of the Contact page. You should be able to find it on the top menu. To fight the spam that caused the previous removal of the page, sending a message to me will require you to look up an answer to a previous puzzle from the Archive page. Hopefully this proves relatively simple for humans but difficult for bots.

The final bit of news for this week is that Grant Fikes has started up his seventh season of Kevin’s Puzzles at Home, his homage to this site. Normally, he posts word puzzles every Wednesday, but during Kevin’s Puzzles at Home, he posts a simple puzzle hunt puzzle each Monday, twelve hours before my puzzles. What’s more, he donates to a food pantry for every solve, so 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.

The March-April metapuzzle, Categories, is now a week old, so a hint has been released. You still have one more week to solve it. As some extra help, the solution to the final regular puzzle of that set, Hard Work, is available.

Before you start off this week’s puzzle, I have some exciting news! Grant Fikes, regular solver and friend of this site, has created an homage puzzle set on his puzzle blog, which will be releasing every Monday, twelve hours before mine come out. Grant has been making puzzles for a lot longer than I have, so you know they’re good quality. What’s more, for every solve, he will be donating money to his local food bank. If you’ve got some time to spare, head on over to his blog to check out the first puzzle and read the full details of the challenge!

The first puzzle of my new puzzle set is Couplets. Complete the love poems, and start this May-June puzzle set off right!

The answer to the puzzle each week is a word or short phrase. Make sure to include any required spaces or punctuation in your answer.

The solution to Cupcake Crush, the puzzle from two weeks ago, went up today. The July-August metapuzzle, Number the World is still open, with a newly-posted hint.

Thank you and congratulations to everybody who solved in July and August! Some of those puzzles were tricky. The September-October puzzle set starts with the simpler puzzle Easy Does It.

You may notice that the puzzle layout has been updated starting this week. This is in recognition of the one-year anniversary of this site. Thank you to everybody who has stuck around and solved puzzles with me! I am expecting to roll out a number of website and interface improvements over the next several months, and I hope you stick along for the ride.

The answer to every puzzle will be a word or short phrase. Enter it in the form below, making sure to include any necessary spaces or punctuation. (This submission form is next on my list of improvements. I am looking forward to having a smarter answer checker that doesn’t require perfect spacing and punctuation.)