Puzzlin’Craft

WordsPlay.NET is an absolutely addictive game on the Web for any one who enjoys word puzzles and practicing for their next Scrabble tilt. The game is based closely on Boggle and requires users to find the most possible words in a 4×4 or 5×5 grid layout of letters. The challenge is to make the connection of touching letters (only sides and corners allowed) into longer words. In the puzzle below “DAMNS” and “MAID” are legal words but “MINTS” is not because there is no side or corner connection between the “N” and “T”.

D	M	N	I
A	I	S	S
X	T	I	N
R	A	T	O

See what you can find in the puzzle above. Hint there is a BIG word. Longest list of words wins a Website t-shirt; just click the submit button.

This Jumbalai puzzle is inspired by the bird song that indicates Spring has Sprung despite all the snow. Shivering outside, the birds have raised their songs an octave - so I suspect you will do so in our Bird solution and jumbled word puzzle.

Jumbalai Puzzles work with anagrams of words or phrases that have to be unscrambled to get their meaning. But Jumbalai puzzles have spice or bite in two additional ways for puzzlers:
1)There maybe more than two anagrams possible with the letters provided;
2)the word may contain one or more embedded, single-digit number in any of the following languages - English, French, German, Italian, Latin, or Spanish.
For example: “leettsr” => becomes “trestle” (not “letters”) and tres indicates the third letter, “e” is the one to use in the downward puzzle. If there is no number in the word or it goes beyond the words length- then just use the starting letter.

As always the first letter of each word spells out downward the overall puzzle solution;
and the answer to the second clue is entered into the form.

PINES
BRAWLER
WRY HOT AIR
SOLON
SKLAR
PYSORE
POWDERCOKE

DOWNWARD PUZZLE:Gulp, that bird was fast and flighty.

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Its Oscars time and time for a tough Oscar & Movie related Puzzle!
Remember the essential navigation:
1)Click on the start of a word - you get the across version highlighted
2)Click again and you get the down version
3)The yellow square indicates where the typing will go

You need Java enabled to view the crossword applet.



If you do not have Java installed you can obtain it from java.com. If do have Java you may need to check your security settings to make sure that applets are enabled, especially if you are viewing the puzzle from your hard disk. In Windows XP you may be able to enable the applet by clicking on the yellow bar at the top of the window and selecting “Allow blocked content”.

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Jumbalai Puzzles work with anagrams of words or phrases that have to be unscrambled to get their meaning. But Jumbalai puzzles have spice or bite in two additional ways for puzzlers:
1)There maybe more than two anagrams possible with the letters provided;
2)the word may contain one or more embedded, single-digit number in any of the following languages - English, French, German, Italian, Latin, or Spanish.
For example: “leettsr” => becomes “trestle” (not “letters”) and tres indicates the third letter, “e” is the one to use in the downward puzzle. If there is no number in the word or it goes beyond the words length- then just use the starting letter.

As always the first letter of each word spells out downward the overall puzzle solution;
and the answer to the second clue is entered into the form.

into Raj
iTune
blamer
idle brew
bream
silent
lap me
artie

First letters: FishDish

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Bookmark your word solving prowess by submitting your solution to our puzzles
The first 3 solvers of our puzzles (not just the word down but the complete solution in our special puzzles) will win three hard-to-match Bookraft bookmarks for your crafty work:

In the case of the crossword puzzles just take a screenshot and send that to me here:Jbsurv@bookraft.com
Remember to send along your address so I can post the bookmarks to you.

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The puzzle for February 2007 has Computer Players as its theme. So think nerdy!
Remember the essential navigation:
1)Click on the start of a word - you get the across version highlighted
2)Click again and you get the down version
3)The yellow square indicates where the typing will go

You need Java enabled to view the crossword applet.



If you do not have Java installed you can obtain it from java.com. If do have Java you may need to check your security settings to make sure that applets are enabled, especially if you are viewing the puzzle from your hard disk. In Windows XP you may be able to enable the applet by clicking on the yellow bar at the top of the window and selecting “Allow blocked content”.

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Adder Puzzles add one letter to the first clue to make the second.
For example: Gerstner’s predecessor at IBM; creators
Gerstners predecessor at IBM=akers - creators=makers

As always the first letter of each word spells out downward the overall puzzle solution;
and the answer to the second clue is entered into the form.

Stick out thumb to get one; Runaway
Sweet Sixteenth; Senator Barack Obama is going this way
Leo, manager of the Giants; “let me get into something more comfortable”
Dined; anti-all

First letters: the Decider’s own special league.

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Rhymer Puzzles use rhymes or puns/homonyms to connect the two words.
For example:Listen up; right on the spot
Listen up = Hear - right on the spot = here - this is a pun or homonym linking
For rhyme we have this example: anti-white; pom-pom gun
anti-white = black - pom-pom gun = flak

As always the first letter of each word spells out downward the overall puzzle solution;
and the second clue is entered into the form.

Finished; demand debtor payment
French liquid; in the middle of not high
Look over the top; at the topmost
Hole in the dyke; every one
Not me; hardy tree

First letters spell: One of Snow White’s many beaus

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Here is our puzzle for January 2007. This is a big puzzle but still easy to solve:
Remember the essential navigation:
1)Click on the start of a word - you get the across version highlighted
2)Click again and you get the down version
3)The yellow square indicates where the typing will go

You need Java enabled to view the crossword applet.



If you do not have Java installed you can obtain it from java.com. If do have Java you may need to check your security settings to make sure that applets are enabled, especially if you are viewing the puzzle from your hard disk. In Windows XP you may be able to enable the applet by clicking on the yellow bar at the top of the window and selecting “Allow blocked content”.

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