{"id":1204,"date":"2026-09-18T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2026-09-18T07:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:15:32","slug":"puzzle-159","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/18\/puzzle-159\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #159: Roll It Back (shapeshifters!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t21DFnu00Dc\" 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\/roll_it_back_shapeshifter.ipuz\">Online Solver<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hello! Here is a puzzle. How do you solve said puzzle?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The four grids in this puzzle are shapeshifters. In each grid, the two staircase-shaped sections can be pushed together vertically or horizontally, forming two different sets of words reading across. For example, the upper-left grid can form four 5-letter words, or five 4-letter words. The clues have been grouped by answer length, but you will have to determine which grid each answer goes in, and where it goes within its grid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How do you make said puzzles? Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.github.io\/variety-tools\/shapeshifters\/\">new shapeshifters tool<\/a>. This is a puzzle type invented by Patrick Berry that I really like, and hopefully we get to see more of them out there!<\/p>\n<p>Hey, do you appreciate what we do here? Two easy ways to show your appreciation:<br \/>\n1. Tell people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.every.org\/chla\/f\/alexs-chla-triathlon\">about our charity fundraiser<\/a>! Not everyone has money to donate, and that&#8217;s fine. But if you tell people about it we can raise more money for Children&#8217;s Hospital Los Angeles. And people who donate can get some puzzles too!<br \/>\n2. Join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/c\/crosswordnexus\/home\">our Patreon as a free member<\/a>! Free members get notified about blog posts, so you&#8217;ll be able to stay in the loop. Of course, if you become a paid member, you&#8217;ll get some acrostics too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/solve?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/roll_it_back_shapeshifter.ipuz\">Enjoy the solve!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff PUZZLE LINK: Online Solver Hello! Here is a puzzle. How do you solve said puzzle? The four grids in this puzzle are shapeshifters. In each grid, the two staircase-shaped sections can be pushed together vertically or horizontally, forming two different sets of words reading across. For example, the upper-left grid can form four 5-letter&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/18\/puzzle-159\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Puzzle #159: Roll It Back (shapeshifters!)&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":[6,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles","category-shapeshifters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","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=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1209,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}