Puzzles for people who love words and odd facts. Acrostics that hide a secret word down their first letters, crosswords that test vocabulary and general knowledge rather than a single theme, a word-maker that turns eight tiles into as many words as you can find, and three true-or-false trivia rounds. Every puzzle prints on a single page with a fold-over answer key.
Acrostics · word-maker · crosswords · trivia — 10 puzzles, Easy to Hard
Write the opposite of six simple words. The circled first letters, read down the page, spell a mystery word.
Print this puzzle »Nine short general-knowledge clues, from a woolly farm animal to the largest animal on Earth. The first letters spell a nine-letter hidden word.
Print this puzzle »One step up: ten everyday clues and a ten-letter hidden word running down the first letters.
Print this puzzle »How many words of three letters or more can you make from the eight letters in PICTURES? Each tile once per word.
Print this puzzle »Eight clues, every answer five letters or fewer. One of the quickest crosswords in the library.
Print this puzzle » School & Everyday Life »Twelve clues with no theme at all — a fourteen-line poem, an ancient Egyptian royal tomb, the gas that makes up about 21% of the air.
Print this puzzle »Built from vocabulary and big ideas rather than things you can point at. Less a knowledge test, more a word test.
Print this puzzle »Some of these animal facts might surprise you. Mark each one true or false, then check the answer strip.
Print this puzzle » Animals & Nature »Read each statement about the world carefully and circle true or false.
Print this puzzle »How much do you know about the history and mechanics of puzzles themselves? The hardest true-or-false round we have.
Print this puzzle »| Puzzle | Type | Level | What’s inside |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antonym Acrostic | Acrostic | Easy | 6 opposites · mystery word |
| Crossword Acrostic | Acrostic | Easy | 9 clues · 9-letter hidden word |
| Word Search Acrostic | Acrostic | Medium | 10 clues · 10-letter hidden word |
| Word Hunt | Word-Maker | Medium | 8 letter tiles · make 3+ letter words |
| Common Words | Crossword | Easy | 8 clues · short answers |
| General Knowledge Crossword | Crossword | Medium | 12 clues · no theme |
| Words & Wisdom Crossword | Crossword | Medium | Vocabulary clues |
| Animal Facts | Trivia | Easy | True or false · animals |
| World Facts Trivia | Trivia | Medium | True or false · geography and the world |
| Puzzle Master Trivia | Trivia | Hard | True or false · puzzle history |
On an acrostic, don’t worry if one clue stumps you. Fill in the answers you know, then look at the first letters you have so far. The hidden word often tells you what the missing answer must start with.
On Word Hunt, try adding an S to the end of every word you find, and look for common endings like -ER and -EST.
Mr. Puzzle says: With trivia, your first instinct is usually right. Circle it, move on, and come back only if you have time to spare.