As seems to be happening with increasing frequency, I have no idea what the origin story of this puzzle was. So probably I tried it with a different puzzle and it didn't work.
No idea where this one came from. Just popped into my head and I wondered if I could make it work. The mechanism is very simple (to the point where I worried it was a bit too simple), so I doubt this will be too much of a challenge…
Many meta ideas come from frustrating dead-ends encountered while solving other puzzles. This one was instead inspired by the title of another puzzle, namely this one by Bird Lives. The similarities between the two end at the…
This puzzle had been mostly finished for a while, but with the revival of the SSS I dusted it off and decided to finish it. With significant help from Cap'n Rick that improved the fill (and eliminated yet another of those wee crimson fish), it…
Given that the SSS cupboards were looking a bit bare, I put together another pretty straightforward but hopefully entertaining puzzle this week. It's inspiration will be self-explanatory, so much so that folks might well be able to…
This one popped into my head, unsurprisingly, while consuming the meta answer.
There's not that much too it, but hopefully it will provide some Sunday morning entertainment.
This meta puzzle was inspired by a rabbit hole that Wendy went down while trying to solve a Gaffney WSJ puzzle a few weeks ago. She thought it would make a nifty metanism for a future puzzle, and mentioned it to Alan, who within hours had devised two…