[Puzzle] You Light Up My Life – 13 May 2024

The hint for last week’s Nono-Nonsense Puzzling is now available, as is the solution to the March-April metapuzzle. Congratulations to all twenty of you who solved it, and a big thank you to anybody who solved at all in the past two months.

This week’s puzzle is the Mother’s Day special, You Light Up My Life. Complete the grid to find your answer, then save both the answer and the grid.

Reminder that Grant Fikes is in the midst of 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.

    [Puzzle] Nono-Nonsense Puzzling – 6 May 2024

    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.

      [Meta] Back to Basics – 29 April 2024

      The hint for last week’s Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? is now up, as is the solution to Fractured Fairy Tales, from two weeks ago.

      This week’s metapuzzle brings us Back to Basics. Use your answers from the past two months to complete this puzzle. The first puzzle of the May-June set comes next Monday. Check back then to begin our first-ever themed puzzle set!

      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.

        [Puzzle] Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? – 22 April 2024

        The hint for last week’s puzzle, Fractured Fairy Tales, is now up, as is the solution to Allergic Reaction, originally posted two weeks ago.

        Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? The new puzzle for this week will help you figure that out. Note that in order to make everything legible, this puzzle is two pages (or one page front and back). This is the final regular puzzle of this set. Next week will be the metapuzzle for March-April.

        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.

          [Puzzle] Fractured Fairy Tales – 15 April 2024

          The hint for last week’s puzzle, Allergic Reaction, is now up, as is the solution to Sandwich Shop Trainee, originally posted two weeks ago.

          The new puzzle for this week is Fractured Fairy Tales. Do I have a story to tell you!

          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.

            [Puzzle] Allergic Reaction – 8 April 2024

            The hint for last week’s puzzle, Sandwich Shop Trainee, is now up, as is the solution to Fantastical Journeys, originally posted two weeks ago.

            The new puzzle for this week is Allergic Reaction. Hopefully you do not have an adverse reaction to logic puzzles.

            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.

              [Puzzle] Sandwich Shop Trainee – 1 April 2024

              The solution to Vegetable Soup, the puzzle from two weeks ago, is now available. After feedback on last week’s Fantastical Journeys, I have released a new, shorter version, along with an additional hint to aid in solving. Apologies to anybody who got discouraged by the amount of research required to get this answer.

              This week though, there is good news! I found you a job as a Sandwich Shop Trainee! I am sure you will do great at making sandwiches!

              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.

                [Puzzle] Fantastical Journeys – 25 March 2024

                The hint for last week’s puzzle, Vegetable Soup, is now up, as is the solution to A Hairy Situation, from two weeks ago.

                The new puzzle for this week is Fantastical Journeys. They say that travel broadens the mind.

                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.

                  [Puzzle] Vegetable Soup – 18 March 2024

                  The hint for last week’s puzzle, A Hairy Situation, is now up, as is the solution to Job Titles, from two weeks ago.

                  The new puzzle for this week is Vegetable Soup. It’s time for something warm and healthy.

                  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.

                    [Puzzle] A Hairy Situation – 11 March 2024

                    The hint for last week’s Job Titles is now up. Check it out if you got stuck. Additionally, the solution to Metacross, the January-February metapuzzle, is now posted. A whopping twenty-five people solved this metapuzzle, and forty people solved at least one puzzle out of the set. Well done to everybody who participated!

                    The new puzzle for this week is A Hairy Situation. Have you seen these coifs before?

                    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.