{"id":1184,"date":"2026-08-21T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2026-08-16T16:43:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:43:36","slug":"puzzle-156-kirby-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/21\/puzzle-156-kirby-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #156: Kirby 3 (and puzzle pack announcement!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/13vnoFPjPVQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>PUZZLE LINK:<\/strong> <a href=\"\/solve?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/Kirby3.ipuz\">Online Solver<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TLDR: help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.every.org\/chla\/f\/alexs-chla-triathlon\">support CHLA by donating at this link<\/a> and I&#8217;ll send you some puzzles!<\/p>\n<p>I participated in the last two iterations of the Malibu Triathlon, and I do mean <strong>last<\/strong> two, as that tri simply does not exist anymore. And while it&#8217;s too bad it&#8217;s gone for tradition&#8217;s sake, the real loss of that triathlon is felt by Children&#8217;s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). You see, for years, the Malibu Triathlon had encouraged its participants to raise money for CHLA, and participants raised a <strong>lot<\/strong> of money \u2014 $1.25 million in 2023, for example. It got to the point where it made up a good chunk of CHLA&#8217;s yearly budget. And now, poof, that money is gone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1185 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-16-at-3.52.51-PM-300x294.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-16-at-3.52.51-PM-300x294.png 300w, https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-16-at-3.52.51-PM-1024x1004.png 1024w, https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-16-at-3.52.51-PM-768x753.png 768w, https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-16-at-3.52.51-PM.png 1122w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Well, I&#8217;m running another triathlon this year, and it&#8217;s not associated with CHLA, but it turns out you can just create a fundraiser for whatever you want. So I did that! Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.every.org\/chla\/f\/alexs-chla-triathlon\">my donation page here<\/a>. If you make a donation of any size, I&#8217;ll send you five exclusive puzzles, including this piece of amazing Kirby grid art. Who wouldn&#8217;t want that? Throw a few bucks at a good cause.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and today&#8217;s puzzle? It&#8217;s the Kirby grid art from last year&#8217;s fundraiser. It&#8217;s also a cute little guy. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll like it, if you didn&#8217;t solve it last year at about this time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/solve?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/Kirby3.ipuz\">Enjoy the solve!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff PUZZLE LINK: Online Solver TLDR: help support CHLA by donating at this link and I&#8217;ll send you some puzzles! I participated in the last two iterations of the Malibu Triathlon, and I do mean last two, as that tri simply does not exist anymore. And while it&#8217;s too bad it&#8217;s gone for tradition&#8217;s sake,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/21\/puzzle-156-kirby-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Puzzle #156: Kirby 3 (and puzzle pack announcement!)&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crosswords","category-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}