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Five mechanics. One puzzle a day, free.

Every mechanic in the line is set the same way: the page gives you everything you need, exactly one reading survives, and a machine has walked every wrong turn before the puzzle reaches you. One of them is live here today; the rest arrive as they are proved.

No account. Your streak stays on your phone. Nothing is tracked.

Longhand

Live

Trace one line through the letters and read the sentence as you go. Five rungs from a full maze to no walls at all, and one story a day.

Five rungs, one story a day

From a full maze, where the walls do most of the work, up to a board with no walls at all, where only the words tell you where the line goes.

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Dead Giveaway

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Five guests give sworn statements. Every innocent one tells the truth, so the killer’s account must hold a lie. Clear the ones whose word stands.

The Keeper’s Last Watch · the lighthouse

Judge StavrosThe seaward door stayed bolted all night.Judge EllsworthThe paraffin store was never locked.Baroness JephsonThe fog bell was rung twice, I heard it.
One room a day, soon

Whodunwhen

Coming

Three suspects, four rooms, three hours. Build the timeline hour by hour and find the one account that cannot be true.

A Question of Timing · the Ardenmere Hotel

9 PM10 PM11 PM Miss WhitfieldSaloonLibraryBilliards The Night ClerkGardenGardenLibrary Colonel ReyesSaloonLibraryLibrary
One case a day, soon

COLDCODE

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A murder mystery word search. Every grid holds nothing but the letters of its own hidden word, nobody tells you how many times it is there, and the number you count is the code that opens the next line of the case.

The stamp at the foot of every puzzle

Evidence A5
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The five files

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Five files, five pencils, five questions. Every word you strike out narrows the case, and an unsigned confession on the first page tells you where to start.

Five questions, five typefaces

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