Today's Puzzle
The Saturday Crossword
Edited by the games desk. Average solve time: 22 minutes, one iced coffee.
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The FloridianReporting, fiction, criticism, poetry, and cartoons — from the peninsula
Puzzles & Games
New puzzles every day. Difficulty rises through the week; Fridays are for the stubborn.
Today's Puzzle
Edited by the games desk. Average solve time: 22 minutes, one iced coffee.
Continue reading →The Cryptic
British-style clues, Floridian-friendly grid. Solutions post Monday.
Name Drop
Guess who — in as few clues as you dare. (No, it's not the alligator.)
Spelling Nib
Seven letters, one required. Find every word you can before the storm rolls in.
Archive
Browse a year of Sunday grids, from beginner to brutal.
Today's Puzzle
In Coconut Grove, a veteran constructor contemplates the quiet geometry of the afternoon grid and the limits of the human solving mind.
The Cryptic
A master of double definitions finds inspiration among the slow tides of Sarasota and the habits of retired classics professors.
Spelling Nib
On the porch of a faded hotel in Apalachicola, the daily pursuit of seven letters reveals the limits of vocabulary and patience.
Sunday Acrostic
Deconstructing a passage from a forgotten Florida naturalist to build a grid that behaves like a slow-flowing river.
Rebus of the Week
When three letters must occupy the space of one, the solver of Key West undergoes a small crisis of spatial geometry.
Name Drop
A quiet examination of the proper nouns that dominate our grids and the odd immortality they afford standard historical figures.
Archive
A search through old filing cabinets in a Tampa library reveals how the puzzles of the past captured the anxieties of their era.
The Cryptic
Floating down the St. Johns River, a writer considers the strange pleasure of dismantling words only to rebuild them as something else.
Today's Puzzle
In the glaring heat of a Gainesville afternoon, a college sophomore hits the midweek barrier of grid difficulty and finds comfort in defeat.
Name Drop
How a tiny, obscure body of water in New York or a Finnish architect became permanent residents of the Florida solver's imagination.
Spelling Nib
Staring at a circle of seven yellow honeycombs on a screen in Pensacola, a retired lawyer finds the limits of regional slang.
Sunday Acrostic
A Sunday morning in Coral Gables spent translating a grid of numbers back into a passage of forgotten mid-century architecture.
Rebus of the Week
A puzzle constructor in Orlando explains why cramming a theme park into a single square of graph paper requires a certain degree of structural magic.
Archive
Reclaiming a box of water-damaged newspapers from a Key Largo basement reveals how the puzzles of the nineteen-seventies survived the damp.
Today's Puzzle
On a barrier island near Fort Myers, the formidable Saturday grid presents a challenge that demands all morning and several cups of coffee.
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