Puzzles available online or in books often come with provided answers that are unsatisfactory in some way. The social aspect of Puzzling SE means it provides a good home for such questions to be re-asked (with correct attribution) if the published solution was unhelpfully terse, or worse, a multi...

Inspired by JLee's original Word™/Phrase™ puzzles. If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Heavenly word. Use the examples to find the rule: Heavenly Words™ Non-Heavenly Words™ behead decapitate alabaster gypsum paywalls purchase inverse contrary unjoin detached Wolfr...

Your task is to divide the 15 words shown into five categories and assign each word the correct colour. Each category has a different number of words between 1 and 5. All words within the same category must be the same colour. Different categories do not necessarily have different colours. The to...

In Scrabble, you score points for each new word you make on your turn. Therefore, on a board of AIRLINE and holding a rack of FLOATED, instead of playing FLOATED AIRLINE to score only the points for FLOATED and DA, you should play the seven-letter overlap FLOATED AIRLINE because you score...

This puzzle is based on a card game. The are 7 suspects and 3 of them committed a crime. The game contains 35 cards that contain the 35 possible choices of 3 out of the 7 suspects. One card is drawn at random and hidden from you, these are the 3 criminals you are supposed to identify. You are the...