/tags/crossword/ Recent content in crossword on Puzzmo Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:00:00 -0400 /posts/2025/10/01/minis/ Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:00:00 -0400 /posts/2025/10/01/minis/ Today is the first day of a series of 30 mini crosswords designed to help you become a better crossword solver. They’re free for all players. Solve the first one here, and follow along on our Bluesky thread for every day’s new puzzle. In college, I accidentally majored in German by walking into the wrong classroom. It was my freshman year, and the departments were having open houses for the new students. /posts/2025/02/03/january-games-changelog/ Mon, 03 Feb 2025 08:00:00 -0700 /posts/2025/02/03/january-games-changelog/ Happy new year! This changelog covers all changes since November 2024’s changelog. Here’s what’s new: Cross|word Added text formatting support to clues (italics, bold, links, and more). Adjusted the column layout on narrow desktop and tablet screens so clue lists are always wide enough to read. Adjusted the initial scale of the grid on mobile so the entire grid is always in view. Increase contrast on circle square highlights. Improved the feel of zoom and pan gestures. /posts/2024/10/29/october-games-changelog/ Tue, 29 Oct 2024 08:00:00 -0700 /posts/2024/10/29/october-games-changelog/ Here’s what’s new in games since the last changelog. Weather Memoku Released a new game, Weather Memoku. Play it for free on Weather Channel’s Puzzmo page, or anywhere if you are a Puzzmo subscriber. Cross|word Added a new user profile statistic for plonks. Fixed bug that could cause plonks to be miscounted if the player exited and revisited the game. Fixed a bug where the color of letters could be incorrect after the completion animation completes. /posts/2024/10/25/book-announcement/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 00:00:20 -0400 /posts/2024/10/25/book-announcement/ Today, we announced Puzzmo’s first crossword book. It contains 30 crossword reruns from 2024, 10 book-exclusive crosswords, more than 10 pages of paper remixes of Flipart and Really Bad Chess by Zach and Jack, and a few quick essays from the three of us. You can place an order here! The book is very Puzzmo-coded! We’ve included word separation boundaries in the grids, and have a QR code that’ll let you access all the hints. /posts/2024/09/03/september-games-changelog/ Tue, 03 Sep 2024 15:01:37 -0700 /posts/2024/09/03/september-games-changelog/ Here’s what changed in our games over the last month. Crossword Added a new crossword social share image that visualizes plonks. Added the “Wall clock time” leaderboard, which tracks the duration between the moment the daily crossword puzzle is published, and the moment it’s completed. Typeshift Fixed a bug where, if the “confirm word submission” option was turned on, the game could not be completed in some specific cases. Pile-up Poker Added Pile Up Poker Pro 🃏. /posts/2024/08/07/august-games-changelog/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 10:23:52 +0100 /posts/2024/08/07/august-games-changelog/ Hi, Saman here! This is the first of what I hope will be many monthly changelog posts. Note that our team relies on a continuous release process, so while these changelogs will only come once the month, the changes themselves will roll out as they’re completed. The changelogs are therefore always a summary of changes that are already live. Here’s what changed in our games over the last month. Crossword Removed the hint time penalty, and added a cooldown period for hints (Read Hints v2: Moving from a time penalty to a cooldown period for more details). /posts/2024/07/31/puzzmo-constructors/ Fri, 02 Aug 2024 05:00:00 -0400 /posts/2024/07/31/puzzmo-constructors/ Hi all! Madison (Puzzmo’s Cross|word intern) here! For the past eight weeks, I have been working closely with Brooke on various Cross|word tasks. I have had the opportunity to observe and take part in all the work that goes into publishing Puzzmo Cross|words, and even try my hand at constructing! You can read more about my thoughts on reviewing submissions, editing, co-constructing my first puzzle, writing hints, test solving and fact checking, and end-of-internship reflections in more detail in my past newsletters. /posts/2024/07/22/hints-v2/ Wed, 24 Jul 2024 04:40:29 -0400 /posts/2024/07/22/hints-v2/ Today we’re launching v2 of our Cross|word hint system! We’re ditching time penalties for a cooldown timer that appears if you use three hints in quick succession. The details are towards the end of the blog post here. Puzzmo’s quest to make crosswords more approachable Crossword puzzle solving has a learning curve. There are tons of guidelines that crossword constructors and editors adhere to, and in general these conventions aren’t written down anywhere. /posts/2024/02/05/open-submissions/ Mon, 05 Feb 2024 12:00:00 -0400 /posts/2024/02/05/open-submissions/ Premise and statistics. On December 26, 2023 I announced on Discord that from January 2 through January 9, 2024, Puzzmo players who had never previously been paid for a crossword were welcome to submit one fully-clued crossword to be considered for publication at Puzzmo. This announcement was also made in Cross|word editor notes during the submission window. The spec sheet and style guide can be found here. I sent all responses from January 17 through February 5, 2024.