Crosswords and Crossword Tools
PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver I’m trying to wean myself off of CrossFire and move to Ingrid full-time, because Ingrid is an excellent (and free!) crossword construction tool. One thing Ingrid does that CrossFire does not is make barred crosswords, and our friend Quiara noted recently that this ability makes “Going Too Far”…
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PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Good news everybody! The Crossword Nexus solver now supports puzzles where the clues are decoupled from the entries in the grid. This makes a lot of variety puzzles possible in there that weren’t before. I’ll have more to say about this in the future — including a how-to…
Read More “Puzzle #109: Route 66% (a “Two Outta Three Ain’t Bad” puzzle)” »
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Hey, if you like variety puzzles, you should definitely go subscribe to Outside The Box puzzles. Year 9 starts soon! And of course you should be subscribed to Nathan Curtis’s Patreon if that applies to you as well. Today’s variety puzzle from us is a Kaidoku, and as…
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Do you like puzzle books? Then I can highly recommend Francis Heaney’s Brain Games for Word Nerds (eBay link because I think maybe it’s out of print). In it he shows off some puzzle formats of his own invention, including this one. How does it work? This puzzle…
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PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver It’s an acrostic with Kelsey! This is one where there were some unavoidable dupes and some avoidable ones we didn’t want to avoid, so we just said “screw it” and went hog with it. We hope you love it! Do you like acrostic puzzles? Join our Patreon! Do…
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PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Easing my way back into posting (hopefully!) weekly puzzles with a dropquote. I hope you like it! Do you like acrostic puzzles? Join our Patreon! Do you want a place to discuss puzzles? Join our Discord! Do you want even more puzzles? Check out our charity puzzle…
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PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver | PDF Taking a brief vacation break to post this puzzle from the great minds at The Rackenfracker. I had very little to do with the creation of this puzzle, but they did a great job of extending the acrostic concept in a few very clever ways…
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PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver | PDF Puzzle #100! To celebrate I will be taking a few weeks off from posting puzzles. In the meantime you’ve got this flower power puzzle to enjoy. If you like it, there’s another one in our charity puzzle pack! And if you’re looking for more puzzles…
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PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Up until this point, all the puzzles on this site have been “crosswords” in some sense, in that the words, you know, cross. (In the case of acrostics or our recent “portals” puzzle, the words cross virtually.) This puzzle is different though! It’s a dropquote. What’s a dropquote?…