Crosswords and Crossword Tools
PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Exciting news from Jeff Davidson – his crossword scraper and kotwords tools now support iPuz export! I’ve also worked with Jeff to extend the iPuz definition to allow for coded crosswords like today’s, so I thought I’d celebrate by releasing such a puzzle today! Do you remember…
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PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | PDF Download | Online Solver It’s my first foray into diagramless puzzles! I think this is a fun puzzle type and this should be a relatively gentle introduction to them, if this is your first. In case you don’t know what these puzzles are: they’re just regular crosswords except…
PUZZLE LINKS Easier: iPuz Download | Online Solver Harder: PDF Download | Online Solver Eric Berlin invented a puzzle type called “Patchwork” (example puzzle here) in which entries go in the grid either in rows, or in “patches” like the following It’s a cool puzzle type, but we’re doubling down on the patches in this…
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver | PDF A Flower Power puzzle for you today! This is a new puzzle type to this site but it’s been around for a while, having been introduced to the United States by none other than Will Shortz! He discovered it in an Italian magazine and brought it…
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PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Your usual reminder of what the heck a kaidoku is: 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…
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Bonus Tuesday puzzle for you, and it’s a guest acrostic by Twitch streamer extraordinaire and all-around great guy JibbyMAX! Jibby, what do you have to say? Hi everyone! I’m very excited to present my second ever acrostic [ed note: check out the first one here!]. I was inspired…
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PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Heck yeah, it’s the first acrostic of 2023 and I’m delighted to say it features the one and only Kate Chin Park! This was a super fun one to work on and we think the end result is a blast. We hope you agree! Thanks go out to…
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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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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…
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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