Crosswords and Crossword Tools
PUZZLE LINK: Online Solver As you may know, I make a lot of tools for helping create puzzles. Much of the time, I’ll make something, try it out, and then set it aside. What this means is that if I go back to it a year or two later I’ll be like “oh no this…
PUZZLE LINK: Online Solver I made a flower power puzzle! But how, you ask? Well, it’s quite easy now with our Flower Power tools and the brand-new Crossword Nexus Variety Constructor! The variety constructor is a new project, the heavy lifting for which was done by Ryan Fitzgerald’s Ingrid, whose backend is open-source. The variety…
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PUZZLE LINK: Online Solver We’re happy to show off a puzzle type that’s new to this site: a Consonant Companions puzzle! This is a puzzle type invented by Eric Berlin that I think is really fun. Here’s how it works: The answers in this puzzle begin in the upper left and spiral their way…
Read More “Puzzle #154: How Can You Resist (Consonant Companions)” »
PUZZLE LINK: Online Solver The last time we ran a Patchwork puzzle here, we offered an “easier” and a “harder” version. This time we’re only giving the solver link for the harder version, because (a) I think it’s more fun and (b) we’ve updated the solver to work better with this puzzle type. That…
Happy ACPT to all who celebrate! We’ve been hard at work here at Crossword Nexus HQ on some stuff; this is a roundup of what we’ve been doing. Patreon! You probably knew we had a Patreon, but maybe you haven’t joined for whatever reason. That’s fine! Money is finite and you can’t just go spending…
PUZZLE LINKS: Easier Version (Mobile-Friendly) Regular Version We added a new feature to the Crossword Nexus Solver, so to celebrate, we’re running a Patchwork puzzle. This is a puzzle type invented by Eric Berlin, and constructed with the help of Twitch chat! Thanks to everyone who participated in helping make this puzzle, and thanks…
PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver | JPZ Download Not too long ago Bob reached out to me and said he’d like to collab on an acrostic — and I am never one to turn down a collab. He suggested a quote that I liked a lot and we were off to the races. We think you’ll…
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PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver Quiara approached me and said “hey, you want to make an Eight Tracks puzzle?” and I said “Why yes I do!” so we made one. Do you remember how these work? This puzzle’s grid has eight tracks and eight sectors. Each track contains a series of words reading either clockwise (+)…
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PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver | iPuz Download Good news, everyone! The Crossword Nexus solver now supports puzzles with an arbitrary number of clue sets. Since two-tone puzzles have three clue sets, I asked Jeff to add support for that to Kotwords (which he quickly did) and I asked Kelsey to make a puzzle with me…
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PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver | iPuz Download Kaidoku time! Remember these? Each answer in a kaidoku, or coded crossword, is a common, lowercase English word. The numbers 1 through 26 each stand for a different letter of the alphabet, and instances of a given number stand for the same letter throughout the entire grid. Did…