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Author: Alex Boisvert

Puzzle #131: The Crave (Jelly Roll)

PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver Today we’re proud to present a Jelly Roll puzzle, a puzzle type invented by Eric Berlin. To my knowledge, he’s the only person to have created a puzzle of this type up until now, but he gave me the go-ahead to run this one. If you’d like to make one of…

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Crossword Tools

Puzzle #130: Girl Dinner (feat. Kelsey!)

PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver | iPuz Download It’s a themed crossword, and a collab with Kelsey! This theme came about, as so many do, via a discussion on a Twitch stream. So we made it a reality! It is a blessing and a joy to be able to work with Kelsey, and I just regret…

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Collabs

Puzzle #129: All The Caffeine (snake charmer)

PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver | iPuz Download Oh, man, it’s been too long. Let’s do a Snake Charmer puzzle. Remember how these work? Each entry begins in the correspondingly numbered square and snakes around the grid, ending in the square immediately before the next number in order. Entry 29 ends just before square 1, and…

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Puzzles

Puzzle #128: Oh Dang It (Marching Bands!)

PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver | JPZ Download As part of my quest to write at least one of every type of variety puzzle, here’s a Marching Bands! If you’ve never done one of these before, here’s how it works: In this themeless variant, answers appear in two different directions, Rows and Bands. Each Row has…

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Marching Bands

Puzzle #127: White Whale (and contest results!)

PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver | iPuz Download I have been trying to make a Two-Tone puzzle for SO long. “How hard could it be?” I thought, as I had easily come up with tools to help create snake charmer and spiral puzzles. But for a very long time, I just couldn’t crack the logic for…

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Crossword Tools

Puzzle #126: All Good Here (hex pathfinder)

PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver (regular) | Online Solver (harder) Hey, it’s our first foray into the hex pathfinder puzzle type! This is a tough type to construct, and a pretty challenging one to solve. Our friend Kate Chin Park struggled through the first version of this and suggested we make a simpler version, which we…

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Hex Pathfinder

Puzzle #125: Aren’t We a Pair? (contest crossword!)

PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz file | Online Solver Good news, everybody! Brooke Husic and Will Nediger, in collaboration with studio A24, have just released a book of 99 TV crosswords. They were nice enough to ask me to write a few puzzles for it, including one with a celebrity collaborator. In celebration of the release, we’ve…

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Crosswords

Massive PDF Update

If you’ve been around this site for a while, you’re probably familiar with our PDF creator. We haven’t really updated it in a while, so we were due for something like this. And it’s a big one! As of this moment, just about any puzzle type you can think of can be turned into a…

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Crossword Tools

Puzzle #124: The Art of Counting

PUZZLE LINKS: PDF (regular) | PDF (harder) | RG file | Online Solver I learned a new word, so I decided to build a rows garden puzzle around it. This one happened to be nine letters long, but good news! The Rows Garden Creator can now accept seed entries of (almost) any length! Try it…

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Puzzles

Puzzle #123: Gridlock

PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver Inspired by our friend Tyler’s performance on a game show (um, seven years ago) we’re proud to present a gridlock puzzle! Kelsey gave this one a test-solve, thanks Kelsey! Here’s how it works: This puzzle consists of five grids with some letters pre-filled. In each grid, you must use letters from…

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Gridlock

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