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Puzzles
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🎒Back to School Issue 45 · September, 2026
🎧High School Re-orientation playlist
- The fill in the blank puzzle that has the clues like “kind of page or base” is a word ladder. Change one letter with each step to form four-letter words. The word ROOM is given at the bottom of the column.
- If you feel stuck on Locker Combos, use your hand to pretend to turn the dial to the right and left. Notice how the numbers on the dial move relative to the stationary red pointer.
- Bonus points to anyone who messages me the name of the song that is referenced by the circled letters in “The Quad”.
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🏘️Village Issue 44 · August, 2026
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🏆World of Cups Issue 43 · July, 2026
- Someone asked me to to make a puzzle about the World Cup. I made this instead.
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🐢Turtle Issue 42 · June, 2026
- Errata (fixed as of 6/2/2026):
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- Floating Point #12 should have five blanks and #13 should have six blanks.
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- Turtle Recall “Flavorful 90s icon” should show 10 letters long.
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🚇N Judah Issue 41 · May, 2026
- This one is meant to be folded up in thirds.
- Solving digitally? Use this version of the PDF that has both sides facing up
- Clue: Stuck on “song sung by Jets” in Extra Innings? snap to it
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🪨A Trip to Stonestown Issue 40 · April, 2026
🎧A Trip to Stonestown playlist
- This one is meant to be folded up in thirds. But you do you. It looks pretty cool as a landscape layout too.
- Solving digitally? Use this version of the PDF that has both sides facing up
- Errata - These are fixed in the live file. The launch-day version of the file had the following errors 1) Glass Houses - there were at least 3 valid paths 2) Bird Removal - the answer to “Type of Speech” appeared 2x in the bush, and the answer to “It Burns!” appeared zero times.
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⛏️Mine Issue 39 · March, 2026
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🍒Doubles Issue 38 · February, 2026
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🔋Batteries Included Issue 37 · January, 2026
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📝Annual Letter Issue Season 3 Recap · December, 2025
A note to club members reflecting on three years of Cozy Cubs and what’s next…
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🧲The Fridge Issue 36 · December, 2025
- After printing, fold this puzzle up in thirds … it’s a fridge.
- Solving digitally? Use this version of the PDF that has both sides facing up
- Errata: In the CRISPR puzzle, in the final answer it should be 🍅[2] (Tomato Two), not 🍅[3]. This is fixed in the online file.
- This month’s answer key is brought to you by Tori, a long-time Cozy Cubs Member and someone who isn’t shy about sending me her hot takes about the puzzles.
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🦜Pirates Issue 35 · November, 2025
🎧Cozy Pirates All Hands playlist
- Errata: In Raising the BARrrr, to remove unintended ambiguity, the ninth clue should read “The crew member who gets the EE rating has one E in their name” instead of “an E.” This is fixed online as of 11/4/2025. Thanks Tinna and Tori for the heads up!
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🔦After Dark Issue 34 · October, 2025
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🥞The Diner Issue 33 · September, 2025
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🫧Bubbles Issue 32 · August, 2025
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⛳Putt Putt Issue 31 · July, 2025
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⛵Cozy Cove Issue 30 · June, 2025
🎧Cozy Cove playlist on Spotify
- Cozy Cove playlist on YouTube
- Solving digitally? Use this version of the PDF that has both sides facing up
- Errata: 2 Down in Double Cross clue should say “USC” not “UCS”. This is fixed online as of 6/1/2025.
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🐝Bees Issue 29 · May, 2025
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🥖Baked Issue 28 · April, 2025
- “Bake Off (Cozy Cubs Mix)” - this issue’s theme song!
- Errata: The word “well-structured” was missing the Ready Set Bake word find; Knotty by Nature letter counts, 22 “Like glowing embers” should be (3, 3) and 24 “Not-so-special brownie ingredient” should be (5, 6). These have been fixed in the latest PDF files.
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🛋️Naps Issue 27 · March, 2025
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🥛Milk Issue 26 · February, 2025
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🛍️The Mall Issue 25 · January, 2025
- Errata: The Mall Word fnid had “THEGAR” instead of “THEGAP”. This has been fixed as of Jan 27, 2025.
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🔥Fire Issue 24 · December, 2024
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🖤Leather Issue 23 · November, 2024
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🏰Castle Cozington Issue 22 · October, 2024
- Lord Cozwald sends gratitude for all shield art submissions: jpdapuzzlesolva, Barry, Tori Joshi, Amy, Christina W, and an anonymous solver who left their puzzle at Yoma Cafe
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🍸Speakeasy Issue 21 · September, 2024
🎧Message in a Blottle playlist
- After printing, fold this puzzle up in thirds, similar to a take-out menu.
- Solving digitally? Use this version of the PDF that has both sides facing up
- Leaderboard - all recorded solves before answers were posted:
- 1) Me Backwards 2) Dusk 3) Lucy L. 4) Tori Joshi 5) Jpdapuzzlesolva 6) Garo 7) Christina W 8) Barry 9) Krithin
- Submit your meta answer
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🌊Surf's Up Issue 20 · August, 2024
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🛠️Home Improvement Issue 19 · July, 2024
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🥕Garden Issue 18 · June, 2024
🎧Octopus's Garden Party playlist (has spoilers)
- The playlist includes answers (spoilers) for the Octopus’s Garden Party puzzle
- Why is it called Area Codes?
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🌮The Taconites Issue 17 · May, 2024
- After printing, fold this puzzle up in thirds, similar to a take-out menu.
- For anyone solving digitally, here is a version of the PDF that has both sides facing up
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🌿Herbs Issue 16 · April, 2024
🎧The Green Goddess and Friends playlist
- The playlist includes clues for the Original Recipe crossword and Sounds like a Plan…t, and every song referenced in The Green Goddess puzzle (these are not spoilers).
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♟️Board Games Issue 15 · March, 2024
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🚂Trains Issue 14 · February, 2024
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🥣Bowl Games Issue 13 · January, 2024
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🥡American Chinese Issue 12 · December, 2023
- After printing, fold this puzzle up in thirds, similar to a take-out menu.
- Hint 1: Spice Index - This one is tricky! The name of the puzzle is a hint that you need to “index” into something
- Hint 2: Spice Index - “Just take the bites how many spicy” means, for example, if a dish has 🌶️🌶️, take only the 2nd letter from each group of four. Like this… CHOP-FISH-…
- Errata: The Drinkin’ Songs word find originally had a misspelling in the last row. It is fixed as of 12/4 in the live PDF.
- Errata: Dire Rifts: The scrambled text of the first item was updated as of 1/8/2024. The answer remains the same.
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✈️Air Travel Issue 11 · November, 2023
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🍂Sweater Weather Issue 10 · October, 2023
- The playlist includes all 15 songs referenced in this issue. Whether you consider these hints, or spoilers, is up to you.
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🏈College Football Issue 9 · September, 2023
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🍨Ice Cream Issue 8 · August, 2023
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🦅America Issue 7 · July, 2023
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🏳️🌈Pride Issue 6 · June, 2023
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💍Rings Issue 5 · May, 2023
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🌳Trees Issue 4 · April, 2023
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☀️The Sun Issue 3 · March, 2023
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❤️Love Issue 2 · February, 2023
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🏺Pottery Issue 1 · January, 2023
- Tip: In the puzzle ”Alphabridge”, if the term WHEELHOMIE has no meaning to you, swap it with “Name of someone you admire”