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Puzzle #67: Iso Play (isogrammatic variety kaidoku)

PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Way back when I used to make kaidoku more frequently (… over a decade ago) fellow kaidoku enthusiast Joon Pahk had an insane idea to make these harder. You see, normally in one of these puzzles you’d look for unusual letter patterns to help you get a foothold….

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Kaidoku

Puzzle #66: Oooooooh Swirly (spiral)

PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver It’s a spiral! You know how to solve a spiral, right? When completed, this grid will contain two series of words—one reading inward from 1 to 100, the other outward from 100 back to 1. Every space will be used exactly twice. Work from both sets of clues…

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Puzzles

Puzzle #65: He’s Misstra Know-It-All (feat. Kate Chin Park!)

PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Final Innervisions puzzle, and our special guest for this one is Kate Chin Park! You can find Kate’s puzzles literally everywhere, but I admit to being partial to her indie puzzles, where she can be as silly and creative and long-winded as she wants. If you want to…

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Collabs

Puzzle #64: Don’t You Worry ’bout a Thing (feat. Norah Sharpe!)

PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Back to the Innervisions puzzles, this time with special guest Shannon Rapp, aka Norah Sharpe! I don’t know how many collabs we’ve had at this point, but it’s a lot, and it’s always a pleasure. Speaking of Norah collabs, did you see her recent collab with Chris Adams?…

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Collabs

Puzzle #63: AI (feat. Rose Sloan!)

PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Some of you might remember our very silly take on meatdaddy’s Tabula Rasa project. We didn’t really do anything interesting there, just taking the four most important words (as per TF-IDF) found in clues for each entry and presenting them in descending order of importance. The end result…

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Collabs

Puzzle #62: All In Love Is Fair (feat. Ben Zimmer!)

PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Our special guest for Innervisions puzzle number 7 is the one and only Ben Zimmer! I can’t possibly link to everything Ben does, so check out his Twitter for all his stuff. I’ve always enjoyed chatting with him in the past because he seems to know the answer…

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Collabs

Puzzle #61: Jesus Children of America (feat. Jayne Boisvert!)

PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver A very special guest for our newest Innervisions puzzle – it’s my mom! We’ve collaborated on several puzzles before, but it’s been quite some time, and this is her first appearance on this site. Give her a nice welcome! It was great working with her again and hopefully…

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Collabs

Puzzle #60: Higher Ground (feat. The Rackenfracker!)

PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | PDF Download | Online Solver We are so excited to present a very special collab with The Rackenfracker this week! It’s the first puzzle of side two of Innervisions and we’ve got a very special puzzle for the occasion. We don’t normally provide a PDF for our puzzles (because the…

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Collabs

Puzzle #59: Middle School

PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Oh, man, starting next week we’ll have some Innervisions collabs for you that I’m super excited about. But they’re not quite ready yet, so please enjoy this puzzle that was originally made for Crosswords LA all the way back in 2010! Some of the fill and clues aged…

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Crosswords

Puzzle #58: Biblical Proportions (Acrostic)

PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Pretty big acrostic today. Make sure to hit F11 to get that browser into full-screen mode before solving. I love this quote and I hope you do too. Enjoy the solve!

Acrostic

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