Puzzle #39: Idle Money (acrostic)
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Let’s do another acrostic! Thanks to Jibby for the test-solve. Enjoy the solve!
Category: Puzzles
Puzzle #38: Rosanna (collab with Quiara Vasquez!)
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Bittersweet moment here at Nexus HQ as we’ve got the last Yacht Rock puzzle for you today! It’s been quite a ride. You can find the whole series here. Who better to end the series with than Crossword Person Extraordinaire and yacht rock superfan Quiara Vasquez! It…
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Puzzle #37: Double Play (a variety kaidoku!)
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Anyone else excited baseball is back? To celebrate, we’re running a variety kaidoku. Years ago I posted a bunch of these, but it’s likely most of you have never seen one, so: Most entries in a variety kaidoku are common, lowercase English words. A few entries are…
Puzzle #36: Sound Tracks (collab with meatdaddy!)
PUZZLE LINK: Online Solver Happy to work with meatdaddy again after our previous wildly successful collab! They were the perfect person to work with on this puzzle because … well, if you know meatdaddy, you’ll see why. Thanks go out to Will for giving this one a once-over for us! Enjoy the solve, and…
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Puzzle #35: Supermajority (a “Two Outta Three Ain’t Bad” puzzle)
PUZZLE LINKS: PDF Download | iPuz Download | Online Solver Presenting a puzzle type we really enjoy, invented by our friend Joon — it’s a “Two Outta Three Ain’t Bad” puzzle! What is such a puzzle? Glad you asked. Each answer in this puzzle is a lowercase dictionary word. Clues come in three types:…
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Puzzle #34: Gino (The Manager)
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver The Yacht Rock series of puzzles continues! You can find the others here. It was not easy to come up with a puzzle with this title. I think we ended up with something pretty good. Thanks to Kelsey for the test-solve! Enjoy the solve, and as always, if…
Puzzle #33: Infraction Fabrication (Acrostic)
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver It’s an acrostic. You know the drill by now. Thanks to Kate for her ever-invaluable feedback. Enjoy the solve!
Puzzle #32: Charm The Snake
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Not a Yacht Rock puzzle today, but we named this one for a Christopher Cross song because we’ve got a Snake Charmer variety puzzle! Snake Charmer is a variety type invented by Patrick Berry and is traditionally presented in an “S” shape, but I prefer the more compact,…
Puzzle #31: I’m Alright
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver If you’re just tuning in, we’re doing one puzzle for each episode of the Yacht Rock series, and this is our tenth one! You can find the others here. We have an easy-breezy themed puzzle today we hope you enjoy. Thanks to Kate for the test-solve! Enjoy the…
Puzzle #30: Every Which Way With Clues (Helter Skelter Variety Puzzle)
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Another day, another terrific tool courtesy of Jeff Davidson over at Kotwords. This time it’s a tool to make Helter Skelter puzzles, which is a variety puzzle I really like. So I had to try it out and make one! This may be a variety puzzle type…
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