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i wrote more here: blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2025/1...

Puzzmo Mini Crossword #1 is by brooke. It's a 5x5 grid, and the number 6 in the grid is a different color than the other numbers.

For the next 30 days, we're running a series of free mini crosswords created by our puzzle editor @xws.bsky.social to help you become a better crossword solver. Solve the first puzzle here, and check the replies every day for the next one!

👯 Puzzmo Mini Crossword #1: www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2025-...

As we move toward our fall subscription drive, we hope you’ll consider supporting us in part bc we are an independent media company.

No, crosswords are not as vital as journalism. But yes, all content that we consume matters, and it should be as free as possible from corporate control.

Crossword - The Atlantic This mini puzzle gets a little more challenging every day: Mondays are the easiest, with the biggest, most difficult puzzle on Sunday.

or Paolo Pasco's minis for the Atlantic!

(warning though: those increase in difficulty and do surprisingly tough on Thursdays and Fridays!)

www.theatlantic.com/games/daily-...

Mini Crossword Challenge yourself every day with a free mini version of the classic crossword puzzle.

or Elizabeth Gorski's minis for the LA Times!

www.latimes.com/games/mini-c...

hey get on over here now that your NYT mini costs $

(you can play Puzzmo's midi xword every day with a free account! they're super fresh and i promise an accessible step up from minis! if you usually compete against friends and fam, bring 'em along to my club!)

puzzmo.com#invite-mnuo2...

UNBOXING: Play & Profit for the Gaming Curious “This podcast absolutely rocks – give it a listen if you want an under the hood look at the games business from some very smart people!” “I follow a lot of game podcasts, but this one stands out for h...

you may know that my game industry podcast @unboxingpod.bsky.social is back. Did you know we also switched frm Substack to Buttondown?

But this hasn't been great for our discoverability, and ppl unsub b/c they prefer ST's format. So sub & share, if you dare: buttondown.com/unboxingpodc...

Hand-solving PDFs ftw (17th out 89 individual solvers)! Thanks for the great day Boswords!!!

A slice of a results spreadsheet for a crossword contest - my name is ranked 17th, with 7390 points

Sooooo it turns out this went pretty well

I'm also v curious how this attempt at in-person speed-solving is gonna go! On one hand, I've been doing Boswords virtually for a few years now, so most of my time comparisons are with PuzzleMe; OTOH, I usually do a ton of solving by hand otherwise, so maybe that'll work out well for me??

lol I guess I should put my Bsky/Mastodon/Twitch handle on my nametag or something, but my name's Ethan and if you're attending please say hey if you're into:
- software preservation
- Russian film/movies in general and want to be Letterboxd buds
- hiking in Western Mass
- whatever!!

Very much looking forward to my first ever in-person crossword tournament on Sunday and meeting folks in the fine @boswords.bsky.social community! (You can still sign up in-person or online if you want to join meeeee: www.boswords.org)

@the_bfool's finished Memoku #643 Re-imagined mainstays like the daily Crossword Puzzle, modern classics like Really Bad Chess and SpellTower, and even a few brand new puzzles.

Welp that's all folks

puzzmo.com/play/memoku/...

@the_bfool's finished Cross|word Stay in the Loop

An excellent birthday present to myself: managing to complete a crossword less than a minute slower than Will Nediger

puzzmo.com/play/crosswo...

One day I will actually make my blog about emulating crossword puzzle apps from the 90s and this account will make sense

An Overview of Emulation as a Preservation Method • CLIR Eric Kaltman, Winnie Schwaid-Lindner, Drey Jonathan, Andrew Borman, Alex Garnett, and Larry Masinter July 2025. 60 pp. (electronic only)CLIR pub 194 PDF download >> An Overview of Emulation as a Prese...

anywho I'm not sure how many of my original contributions are still in here but this just came out today and the people who saw it through kindly kept my name on it, if you ever need an "emulation for preservation" white paper www.clir.org/pubs/reports...

I am once again offering/threatening to any friends and colleagues in #digipres make recommendations for alternatives for *all* your favorite NYT Games if you still have a sub.

There is a big, wide world of puzzles awaiting you that don't directly fund eugenecism, war-mongering and transphobia!

Does @bradlander.bsky.social know you can cancel that NYT Games sub and get @puzzmo.com and @avcx.bsky.social instead?

The Republican Plot to Un-Educate America Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is an extinction-level event for higher education that would annihilate the country’s intellectual potential.

"institutions of higher learning are about to be pummeled by the looming reconciliation bill which weaponizes working-class families’ debt financing college dreams. not only will it push millions to the financial brink, it will push them out of higher ed altogether."

newrepublic.com/article/1970...

I have found the thing even more infuriating than looking at the completion times for Stormy-level Boswords speed-solvers and it is contest crossword solvers calling metas "easy" while I bang my head and get nowhere staring at both this week's WSJ and a damn Week 1 Matt Gaffney

a cover by artist Pseudonym Jones depicting a transfem and a transmasc solving a puzzle, which reads "a trans person made your puzzle." the subtitle reads "trans puzzles in support of U.S. charities, edited by Ada Nicolle and Sara Cantor, cover art by Pseudonym Jones"

A TRANS PERSON MADE YOUR PUZZLE is LIVE !!!!

donate at least $10 USD to an American trans charity and receive 10 puzzles by trans constructors

edited by me and @cantorlope.bsky.social
beautiful cover art by @pseudonymjones.bsky.social
happy pride :)

tinyurl.com/transxwords

Constructor Spotlight: Kareem Ayas Today we welcome constructor, teacher, and reader of every clue in a crossword, Kareem Ayas (he/him). Kareem lives in Harlem with his Siberian Husky, Kane. Kareem! It was such a treat to meet you i…

check out our newest constructor spotlight!
dailycrosswordlinks.com/2025/04/26/c...

Basically the only thing keeping me going right now is trying to top the Memoku leaderboard on Puzzmo before the second great depression

I guess it's cool to have access to Funky Winkerbean now, but the incredible dearth of functionality of former Puzzle Society games on GoComics is kind of insulting. You couldn't even bother to add, like, a Favorites option before launching this, AMU?

Crossword Con 2025 - YouTube

*checks earpiece* crossword con talks are up! enjoy 💛

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Buy, solve, and support the hell out of “A Trans Person Made Your Puzzle,” a new crossword puzzle pack from @adanicklmao.bsky.social

sites.google.com/view/transxw...

Who wants to give me access to their Apple News+ subscription so that I can do even more daily crosswords

Also access to a free iPad or something I guess

I've hit on a novel solution for doing too many crossword puzzles, which is just to do the Matt Gaffney contest and spend all week staring at one puzzle helplessly

Graphic showing the These Puzzles Fund Abortion Logo on a light purple crossword background with the words “TPFA 5 is now live!”

Fundraising update showing screenshot of our donation website, with $7,558 dollars raised toward our 50K goal (15% raised by 133 supporters)

We are happy to announce that our crossword pack is now available! Thank you to those who donated during our presale; you will receive the puzzles today. We are currently at 15% of our fundraising goal! Check us out at fund.nnaf.org/tpfa if you haven’t donated yet!

Two winners (Brie Larson, now Culkin) and a nominee (Kendrick)?

I mean that cast is crazy stacked but not necessarily with Oscar success (i.e. no noms thus far for, say, Evans, Plaza, Pill, Winstead, Cera, Schwartzman)