The Listing
A survey of the great families of puzzle — word, number, logic, and physical. What each one is, how it plays, and a few notes on cracking it.
Clues across and down, crossing in a grid.
The most beloved word puzzle of them all. Fill a grid of white and black squares so that every across and down answer matches its clue — and every crossing letter agrees.
Nine by nine, no repeats in sight.
A grid of numbers with a single rule and no arithmetic at all: fill it so every row, column, and box holds one to nine, each exactly once. Pure logic, start to finish.
Who owns the fish? Cross-reference to find out.
A story, a set of clues, and a grid to track them. Match each person, place, and thing by ruling out the impossible until only the truth remains.
Every clue is a tiny riddle in disguise.
The crossword's craftier cousin. Each clue hides a definition beside a piece of wordplay — anagrams, hidden words, and clever misdirection — and learning to read them is half the joy.
Number the rows and a picture appears.
Also called Picross. Numbers along each row and column tell you how the filled squares are grouped; solve them all and a hidden picture emerges from the grid.
Hidden words, tangled in a field of letters.
A calm, friendly hunt. A list of words lies buried in a grid of letters — across, down, and diagonally, forwards and back. Circle each one you find.
Seven shapes, a thousand silhouettes.
An ancient dissection puzzle: arrange a handful of flat shapes to fill a given outline. Simple pieces, surprisingly deep — a first step into spatial reasoning.
Turn, twist, and restore the order.
The mechanical puzzle family — cubes and their many cousins. Scramble the faces, then return every side to order using memorised sequences of turns.