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The Seaweed Is Always Greener In Somebody Else's Lake
Not a spoiler. I have made it abundantly clear that this puzzle is about crabs. Hello again and sorry about the last couple of...
Elise Corbin
Feb 61 min read
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I Feel The Earth Move
Image source. Sort of a spoiler, but not really. I recently expanded my crossword horizons by making my first-ever cryptic! It has a few...
Elise Corbin
Nov 11, 20241 min read
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Car-dinal Sins
Image source It's reading week, which means that I have some time on my hands, so I've made a new puzzle I'm very excited about! But...
Elise Corbin
Oct 28, 20241 min read
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It's Not Easy Being Green
Image source Hello again! I'm in Siena, Italy this month, but fall semester starts soon, so these are my last few days of freedom. This...
Elise Corbin
Aug 29, 20241 min read
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I'm Doing It Again (and again and again) Baby!
Image source: this poor person on Stack Overflow. I'm back from another long semester (and summer course) with another blog puzzle!...
Elise Corbin
Jun 11, 20241 min read
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Seedy Business
Image source. (Spoiler alert.) This puzzle is a birthday present for my dad, who wrote a paper on this subject in 2016. Happy birthday...
Elise Corbin
Dec 19, 20231 min read
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DNA is kinda based
I saw this comic a few months ago, and naturally I had to write my own DNA-Palooza at some point! Don't worry, though, no actual codons...
Elise Corbin
Nov 12, 20231 min read
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Entangled v.2.0
Image source. (Spoiler alert.) Happy fall, everyone! Between creating Words on Fire and embarking on a few other crossword adventures...
Elise Corbin
Sep 29, 20231 min read
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Words on Fire: announcement and preview puzzle
Image source: me (and Canva) Hi everyone!! It's been a long time, and of course part of that is because it's summer, but it's also...
Elise Corbin
Jul 24, 20232 min read
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False Outcomes
Well-deserved credit for the image (spoiler alert): I replaced my very old Mac with a PC recently, and so far Bing has very much lived up...
Elise Corbin
Jun 14, 20231 min read
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How did it end up like this???
Image source, obviously not even tangentially related to the theme I honestly don't know how I managed to produce a puzzle this week, but...
Elise Corbin
Apr 29, 20231 min read
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The World Turned Upside Down
Image source. (Has nothing to do with the theme.) I had an amazing time at ACPT last weekend!!! I had no idea so many people had heard...
Elise Corbin
Apr 10, 20231 min read
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The other hole thing
Image source. (Spoiler alert, but then again, the image itself is kind of a spoiler.) Lots of announcements today! 1. Cruciverbology is...
Elise Corbin
Feb 11, 20231 min read
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Looking forward to the next Dune movie?
Image source. (Not a spoiler) Science fiction falls under the umbrella of this blog, right? I think it does. This puzzle was my tribute...
Elise Corbin
Jan 28, 20231 min read
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The itsy-bitsy meta
Image source. (Spoiler alert.) After a break for the holidays, here's a brand-new New Year's puzzle (first time typing "2023" for the...
Elise Corbin
Jan 1, 20231 min read
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The Full Spectrum
Image source. (Spoiler alert.) This puzzle has a visual trick that's central to the theme. The solution below explains what's going on,...
Elise Corbin
Dec 10, 20221 min read
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Save Your Energy
Image source. (Spoiler alert.) ***IMPORTANT UPDATE*** It's come to my attention that a file display error has made all of my uploaded...
Elise Corbin
Nov 26, 20221 min read
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All the way up
Image source. (Fair warning, many image source links will be spoilers.) This theme is a bit smaller than some others on this site, but I...
Elise Corbin
Oct 29, 20221 min read
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The hole thing
Image source. (Fair warning, many image source links will be spoilers.) I had trouble coming up with a title for this puzzle because most...
Elise Corbin
Oct 15, 20221 min read
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Power Play
Image source. (Fair warning, many image source links will be spoilers.) This one is a bit more science policy-oriented, but I promise...
Elise Corbin
Sep 24, 20221 min read
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