One clue is all you get to suss out this puzzle’s theme word and the six words related to it. Guess letters one by one ’til you feel gutsy enough to solve it all.

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teal squares in the shape of a "T" on a purple circle

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A true test of your word-finding savvy: They’re hidden every which way, including upside down, backward, diagonal, and upside-down-backward-diagonal. The letters leftover when you’ve found them all? That’s the day’s WonderWord.

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wonderword icon letters scrambled up on a red circle

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Put your pop culture, word play, sports, and humor acumen through the paces with this daily puzzle, which gets tougher each day of the week.

empty la times crossword grid on a blue background

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black circle with white letters spelling out la times

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The officers in the Secret Order of Sudoku upped the ante with this one: The X in the middle is also a no-repeat zone.

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sudoku x icon white grid on a yellow circle

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We call this a bit of a puzzle mash-up: a word search but with crossword-style clues.

partially completed word roundup game board on brown background

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word roundup icon scrambled letters spelling out "word" on tan circle

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Ready, set, Lexigo! Speedily spell five words using hexagonal letter tiles. You'll start in the middle then wind your way through, each letter connected to the last.&nbsp;

lexigo hexagonal tiles with letters on a pink background

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lexigo icon white hexagon on a hot pink background

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This is a nifty number puzzle that calls on a trifecta of skills to solve: patterns, logic, and simple math.

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kenken 4x4 icon with a red and black rectangles

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Let’s see you give this genre fusion a shot: Crossword-style clues help you unscramble sets of letters that build—you guessed it—7 Little Words.

7 little words list of clues and answers partially crossed out

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7 little words blue circle with a number seven

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Test your command of the English language with this puzzle, which relies on root words, parts of speech, and definitions to fill in missing letters.

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rootonym icon four squares spelling out root on a red circle

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Give Sudoku a shot with the Society’s 9x9 original. (A more manageable size, I must say, than the 59x59 our founders originally proposed.)

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Test your puzzling moxie with this giant 16x16 Sudoku that uses both numbers and letters.

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sudoku mega icon white and gray grid on a black circle

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Though it be but little, this 6x6 Sudoku is puzzling—especially since you can’t repeat a digit in the middle X.&nbsp;

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sudoku x mini icon white grid on a blue circle

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Your task here is to fill in two-word phrases using crossword-style clues—the trick being that the second word of each phrase is the first word in the following.

partially completed up & down words game board on blue background

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up & down words icon two arrows on a blue circle

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It’s Jumble! The classic puzzle-comic hybrid that solvers have worked for more than 60 years. Unscramble the words quickly enough and you could land yourself a perfect score.

scrambled jumble letters next to jumble cartoon

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jumble icon blue circle with the letter j

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Beloved by members Society-wide, this puzzle is challenging enough that you’ll brag about finishing, but accessible enough that you won’t mutter about its maddening difficulty.

partially completed crossword game board on blue background

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You have eight clues to solve in this quick-hit mini crossword: four across, four down. (It’s trickier than it sounds!)

partially completed playfour! mini crossword grid

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playfour! icon three colored squares and white square with number four

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From Society constructors Erik Agard, Anna Gundlach, Amanda Rafkin, and David Steinberg comes a contemporary puzzle jam-packed with fun features.

empty modern crossword grid on a pink background

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This 10x10 word puzzle challenges you to spell words using each letter of the alphabet once—zero clues provided! (By Saturday the difficulty climbs to four out of four stars.)

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