Puzzles

  • 1ACGrids 2025 – Puzzle roundup

    1ACGrids 2025 – Puzzle roundup

    This year, we published 23 brand-new, custom-crafted puzzles for our solvers, surpassing the 22 puzzles we featured in 2024. Released fortnightly, these puzzles kept our community engaged and entertained throughout the year. A Special Year for Our Setters 2025 was truly remarkable as even more setters who had set their first crosswords on our blog…

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  • X-factors

    X-factors

    “X-factors” from “Bingo” was our final grid for 2026. Stats: 63 solvers attempted this puzzle.  34 solvers managed to complete the puzzle and the bonus forms partly or fully. Only 16 solvers got the full score.

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  • Flower Power

    Flower Power

    “Flower Power” from “Veeyares” is our twenty-second grid for this season. Stats: 59 solvers attempted this puzzle.  45 solvers completed the puzzle and bonus forms. Only 37 solvers got the full score.

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  • My journey in IXL 2025

    My journey in IXL 2025

    As I sit here nursing a mild crossword hangover (and wondering why my brain still feels like it’s chasing anagrams at 3 a.m.), I can finally say: the IXL 2025 online season is done. Ten rounds, ten Sundays of pure cryptic adrenaline, and the results are out. What a ride. For the uninitiated, IXL is…

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  • Gentlemen

    Gentlemen

    “Gentlemen” from “Avtaar” is our twenty-first grid for this season. Stats: 65 solvers attempted this puzzle.  38 solvers completed the puzzle and bonus forms. Only 28 solvers got the full score.

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