🖨 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. Crossword and logic grid puzzles also offer an 🖨️ Ink Saver mode for a lighter 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
Fall Is Coming
Medium interactive crossword — 20 autumn words, play online or print
Halloween Icon
Hard interactive nonogram — reveal a hidden jack-o'-lantern
NEW Boo Who?
Medium nonogram — a 20×20 outline ghost, no guessing required
NEW Things That Go Bump
Medium interactive crossword — 20 spooky Halloween words, play online or print
General Knowledge Crossword
Medium crossword — test your trivia chops
🔢 Sudoku, Cryptograms & More
🎉 All Sudoku puzzles are now interactive — click, type, check your answers right on the page.
NEW Haunted House Candy Heist
Medium Halloween maze — sneak through the haunted house to get the candy back
Easy Sudoku #1
A gentle warm-up for newer solvers
Hard Sudoku #3
For solvers who like a proper challenge
Antonym Acrostic
Six opposites, one hidden word — no cipher needed
🧠 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
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🔤 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
Puzzle Solver Tools
Anagram solver, word search finder & more
📚 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
NEW Themed Puzzle Packs
Every puzzle grouped into themed packs — Beach & Summer, Animals & Nature, and more »
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❓ 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?
- OCT 6New Halloween maze: Haunted House Candy Heist! The ghost has stolen the trick-or-treat candy and stashed it at the top of the tower. Sneak past the black cat, the bat and a pair of glowing red eyes to get it back — and watch for the ghost’s message hidden in the path. Try it here.
- OCT 4New for beginners: Which Logic Puzzle Should a Beginner Start With? compares sudoku, nonograms and logic grids so you can pick the one that fits the way you think. It comes with a brand-new Easy logic grid, Puzzle Club Night: three friends, three puzzles, three clues. Read the article or try the puzzle.
- OCT 1New Halloween crossword: Things That Go Bump! Twenty spooky words, from ZOMBIE and VAMPIRE to TRICK OR TREAT and CANDY APPLE, all fit into one interlocking grid. Play it right on the page or print it for the kitchen table. Try it here.
- SEP 30New puzzle type: meet the Riddle Code! In Worth the Wait, six fall riddles hand you the letters to a number code, and every letter you find fills in a hidden saying. Type right on the page or print it for the kitchen table. Try it here.
- SEP 30New: our Phonetic Alphabet nonograms just got a big upgrade! Every letter from Alfa to Hotel now comes with a step-by-step walkthrough of the first four moves, a hint hidden behind a click, and a few fun “Behind the Letter” stories. Did you know Alfa is officially spelled with an F? Start with Beginning of Apple.
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