🖨 Free Printable Puzzle — A New One Every Visit
Today’s Featured Printable
🐈⬛ Professional Mouser
🧩 Word Riddle
I have cities, but no houses. I have forests, but no trees. What am I?
Printable Puzzles
Every puzzle in our library is an original, built by hand right here — no reprints, no filler. Each one fits on a single printed page with a fold-over answer key at the bottom, so you can check your work without spoiling the fun. Try a favorite below or browse the whole collection.
Many puzzles are now equipped with a Large Print option — look for the 🔍 Large Print button before you print.
🖼 Nonograms (Picross)
NEW Echo Echo Echo
Easy 15×15 grid — E is for Echo in the block-letter series
Sailboat
Medium grid — a good first step up in difficulty
Professional Mouser
Hard 25×25 grid — a hidden picture for patient solvers
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🔠 Word Searches & Crosswords
Animals at the Zoo
Easy word search — a family favorite
NEW Fun in the Sun
Medium word search — a summer beach theme with a hidden mystery word
General Knowledge Crossword
Hard crossword — test your trivia chops
🔢 Sudoku, Cryptograms & More
🎉 All Sudoku puzzles are now interactive — click, type, check your answers right on the page.
Easy Sudoku #1
A gentle warm-up for newer solvers
Hard Sudoku #4
For solvers who like a proper challenge
Antonym Cryptogram
Crack the cipher one opposite at a time
🧠 Logic Grid Puzzles NEW
▶ Play them right on screen — click a cell to mark it, check your work instantly — or print a blank grid and solve by hand. Every logic grid works both ways.
Podium Placements
Easy
3×3 — a gentle first taste of pure deduction, no numbers or letters
The Bake Sale
Medium
4×4 — four neighbors, four treats, six clues that only work together
The Talent Show
Hard
5×5 — our biggest logic grid yet, ten interlocking clues
✏️ The Puzzle Solver Blog
Nonograms (Picross): How to Solve Them Step by Step
Read More »
📚 More From the Blog
✏️ Want to contribute? We welcome guest posts from puzzle enthusiasts. 600–800 words ideal, 1,000 max. Email us your submission
🔤 Word Scramble
Clue: Number puzzle grid game
KODUSU
Guides & Tools
Stuck on 7 across? Can't crack that nonogram? No shame — even the best puzzlers need a little backup sometimes. Our step-by-step solving guides take you from first-timer to confident solver, and our free in-house tools check your work instantly.
🧰 Free Puzzle Tools
HOT Sudoku Solver
Solve 4×4, 6×6 & 9×9 grids instantly — right here on The Puzzle Solver
All Puzzle Tools
Anagram solver, word search finder & more
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📚 Start-Here Solving Guides
POPULAR Nonograms & Picross
Learn the logic behind the hidden pictures
How to Solve Sudoku
Beginner to expert, one technique at a time
How to Solve Crosswords
From quick grids to cryptic clues
How to Solve Cryptograms
Shift ciphers, codes & letter patterns
NEW How to Solve Logic Puzzles
The grid method — no numbers, no guessing
🧠 Level Up
Advanced Nonogram Techniques
Edge logic & contradiction — crack hard Picross grids
The Puzzle-Solving Mindset
The mental side of getting unstuck
❓ Puzzle Fact: True or False?
Sudoku was invented in Japan.
Daily Challenges & More
Something new every visit: a fresh riddle, a word scramble, a true-or-false brain snack, and a rotating printable straight from our library. Come back tomorrow and every box on this page will have changed.
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🎲 Fun Puzzle Facts
Kakuro Is Nicknamed the Mathematical Crossword
Kakuro — a puzzle combining the grid structure of crosswords with the numerical constraint logic of Sudoku — is often called the mathematical crossword. Each row and column segment must sum to a given clue number using unique digits 1–9. Like Sudoku, Kakuro requires no arithmetic beyond basic addition, relying entirely on logical deduction.
🆕 So What Else Is New?
- AUG 31New: a Crosswordese Glossary is up! The short, vowel-heavy words that show up in grid after grid — ERA, ETUI, OREO, ERNE — finally explained in one place. Learn to spot them on the blog.
- AUG 31New guide: How to Solve Crossword Puzzles Faster is live! Mr. Puzzle walks through the fill-order strategy, crossword shorthand, and the section-by-section approach that separates fast solvers from stuck ones. Read it on the blog, then put it to work on a real crossword.
- AUG 30New: all 8 Sudoku puzzles are now interactive! Click a cell and type — no pencil required. Check your answers instantly, reveal the solution, or still print a copy the old-fashioned way if you'd rather solve on paper. Start with the Sudoku hub.