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Clanker Free Zone (midi) + updates
I made this beautiful work of art myself. Hello again! Now that it's summer (well, it's been summer for a month and a half...) I have a few ideas for new blog puzzles that I'm starting to work on, but first here's a quick, hopefully fun midi. I recently opened PuzzleMe for the first time in a while to generate a link for a custom commissioned puzzle, and I discovered two things: one, they don't let you upload puzzles on their free account anymore, and two, they've gone full A
Fabian Corbin
May 312 min read


Interval Train-ing
Image source . Not a spoiler. It's been forever! Summer courses ended in mid-August, and then I had exactly a week before the next courses started, which I spent a long way away from my laptop. So this is my first break in a while where I get to make some puzzles! Here is a variety puzzle about trains, which was in fact written on a train (the Via Rail/Amtrak Maple Leaf). I've made a few variety-puzzle-ish grids for this blog before, but this is the first one conceived as a v
Fabian Corbin
Dec 22, 20251 min read


The Amazing Spiders Man (feat. Lila and Quiara)
Image source - not a spoiler Update: Fixed a typo at 40-Across :) Sorry for the long hiatus, it's been a busy summer. But since Boswords'...
Fabian Corbin
Jul 24, 20251 min read


XOXO, or, mini tic tac toe
Image source It's summer in the strange schedule of university, so you know what that means: it's time for another experimental mini! Or...
Fabian Corbin
May 7, 20251 min read


Charged Interactions
Image source. Not a spoiler. It's finals season and I'm stuck inside with a cold, so naturally, it's time for another blog puzzle! This...
Fabian Corbin
Apr 15, 20251 min read


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...
Fabian Corbin
Feb 6, 20251 min read


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...
Fabian Corbin
Nov 11, 20241 min read


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...
Fabian Corbin
Oct 28, 20241 min read


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...
Fabian Corbin
Aug 29, 20241 min read


Introducing the Repeating Tile Mini Grids!
Image source. I've been wanting to experiment with the idea of tiles in crosswords since the einstein took the popular science world by...
Fabian Corbin
Aug 1, 20242 min read


Big telescope, small puzzle
Image source Happy 25 puzzles!! My very first puzzle on this blog was a James Webb Space Telescope-inspired puzzle called Mirror Images....
Fabian Corbin
Jul 7, 20241 min read


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!...
Fabian Corbin
Jun 11, 20241 min read


You're Projecting
Image source. Not a spoiler, although it would be really funny if the puzzle was about this. Happy first blog puzzle of 2024! I...
Fabian Corbin
Mar 5, 20241 min read


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...
Fabian Corbin
Dec 19, 20231 min read


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...
Fabian Corbin
Nov 12, 20231 min read


Entangled v.2.0
Image source. (Spoiler alert.) Happy fall, everyone! Between creating Words on Fire and embarking on a few other crossword adventures...
Fabian Corbin
Sep 29, 20231 min read


Words on Fire is OUT!
Image source: Car-dinal Sins, one of the new Words on Fire puzzles! No puzzle this week, people, just the announcement you've (hopefully)...
Fabian Corbin
Aug 9, 20231 min read


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...
Fabian Corbin
Jul 24, 20232 min read


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...
Fabian Corbin
Jun 14, 20231 min read


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...
Fabian Corbin
Apr 29, 20231 min read
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