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Month: August 2021

Hexagon Lexicon

Have you ever wanted to make your own version of the NYT’s Spelling Bee?  Sure, it’s easy to just put down seven letters on a piece of paper, but what about scoring?  Acceptable words?  Easy playability?  To my knowledge, something like that doesn’t exist.  Until now! Check out Hexagon Lexicon, our please-don’t-sue-me-named word game that…

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General

Puzzle #10: Don’t Turn Around (Acrostic)

PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver  Back with an acrostic today!  I like how this one came out.  Thanks to our test-solvers Chris and Ajay on Crosscord for looking this one over.  Also, at Chris’s suggestion we’ve added a link to our Acrostic Generator to the main site, so it’ll be easier to…

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Acrostic

Submission checker

Want to make sure your puzzle is acceptable before submitting it to a publisher?  Check out our brand-new submission checker, which allows you to choose a file and see if it checks all the boxes a publisher might require.  This includes the clue character count (mandated by Universal and USA Today) and the de-duper functionality…

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Crossword Tools

Puzzle #9: What A Fool Believes

PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver I can’t believe I found an Oscar Wilde quote that fits symmetrically and that no one has used before.  I mean, I literally can’t believe it, so I assume one of two things is true: either (a) someone has used it and I just wasn’t able to find…

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Crosswords

Puzzle #8: Runnin’ With The Devil (collab with Kate Chin Park!)

JPZ | Online Solver  Kate Chin Park– otherwise known as Kate Schmate on her website and on Twitter — collaborated with me on this one, and thank goodness she did, because this puzzle is WAY better than it would have been without her fingerprints on it.  Kate is a pro at all aspects of…

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