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Category: Variety Puzzles

Puzzle #16: Coded Cryptic (collab with Liari and Frisco!)

PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | PDF | Online Solver EDIT (8:11 AM Pacific): A few missing clues have been added, and an enumeration fixed. We’ve got a very special puzzle for you today, a hybrid coded and cryptic. Here are the instructions for such a thing: Each answer in a coded crossword is a common,…

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Cryptic

Puzzle #15: Sugar Rush (Acrostic)

PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver It’s All Cake? by Popskyy Suggested solving music above. I’m a big fan of Popskyy, and not just because he explicitly allows his music to be used in streams. Chiptunes 4eva! This puzzle was an absolute bear to fill. Typically the acrostic generator can find fill for an…

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Acrostic

Puzzle #13: Cereal Killer (Acrostic)

PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver The above video is not a spoiler. The one at this link is, however, and you should definitely watch it after solving. Enjoy the solve, and as always, if you plan to solve on Twitch, let us know about it!

Acrostic

Puzzle #11: Kaidoku

Online Solver Man, this takes me back. Years and years ago, Matt Gaffney, Joon Pahk and I ran dozens of Kaidoku (otherwise known as “coded crosswords”) on my now-defunct blog.  Well I think it’s about time to bring these things back, so here’s one from the archives.  How does a Kaidoku work, you ask?  Well:…

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Kaidoku

Puzzle #10: Don’t Turn Around (Acrostic)

PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver  Back with an acrostic today!  I like how this one came out.  Thanks to our test-solvers Chris and Ajay on Crosscord for looking this one over.  Also, at Chris’s suggestion we’ve added a link to our Acrostic Generator to the main site, so it’ll be easier to…

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Acrostic

Puzzle #7: Hypersonic (Acrostic)

JPZ | Online Solver If you’re wondering why we’re posting so many acrostics recently, you may have missed the announcement of our Acrostic Puzzle Creation Tool.  Since that announcement we’ve made some improvements to the tool.  Most notably, you can now specify words you want to keep in the puzzle, and the tool will use…

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Acrostic

Puzzle #6: eZZZZ (Acrostic)

JPZ | Online Solver A terrific interview with Parker Higgins dropped last week at Beyond Wordplay, and while there were many good bits, this little sentence stood out the most to me: A funny gap is that no one really talks about the license under which blog puzzles are released. This really got to me,…

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Acrostic

Puzzle #5: Live Aid (Acrostic)

Online Solver Why don’t more acrostics have titles? Aren’t they just rearranged quote theme puzzles? Here’s hoping this sparks a trend. Some of you have perhaps never solved an acrostic before, so here are instructions. Use the lettered clues below to fill in the numbered squares. Each letter will automatically be filled into the correspondingly…

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