The Puzzles:

  • These are the only standard crosswords offered on the site at the moment, and they’re really good. The diagrams and word lists will remind you of those used in harder NYT Saturday puzzles. The clues are pitched at a high difficulty level, perhaps not quite as tricky or clever as some created by the venerable Will Shortz, but we try.

  • An addictive crossword variant very similar to the classic Patrick Berry puzzle Rows Garden. 38 hexagrams are to be filled with 6-letter words and phrases while the 20-character rows each get two longer entries. The clues are relatively straightforward, but these puzzles are inherently tricky.

  • You won’t find anything quite like these puzzles anywhere else. Standard “across” entries intersect with snakelike entries of varying length that slither across the diagram.

  • These quirky 7x7 crosswords are more difficult than they might at first appear. In each entry, you might have to skip a square or two at any moment to make the alignment work out in the other direction. You have to work back and forth the Across and Down clues.

  • Crosswords without those pesky black squares. They’ve been replaced by bold lines. This simple change opens up the diagrams in interesting ways.

  • Almost all Sudoku puzzles are reverse-engineered so that they can be solved by the standard logical procedures. We’ve taken a contrarian stance. These are made just so that those procedures will come up short most of the time. Something extra is generally required.

  • An interesting thing happens to Sudokus when you replace the standard 3x3 blocks with irregular, jagged shapes: You’re freed from the tyranny of the 9x9 diagram! Blows the mind! Our puzzles range from 7x7 to 10x10.

  • Like the hexacross puzzle, this puzzle has been “borrowed” from puzzle master Patrick Berry. Nine-letter words and phrases are arranged in 32 overlapping triangles. You have to determine the starting point and orientation of each entry.

  • Imagine taking a string on 24 words and phrases, and then reading them all backwards only to discover a whole different string of 24 words and phrases. Weird! Well, that’s exactly what happens in this puzzle.

  • Five different 60-character strands of words and phrases weave through each other in ways that can be both enchanting and dizzying. Try not to lose your place!

  • In these puzzles, 8-letter words and phrases are arranged in 25 overlapping diamonds.

  • These are hard KenKen puzzles by a better name

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