Outside of the brief period when seemingly everyone on the internet was obsessed with playing and talking about Wordle, word games don’t tend to be the most exciting games around. But they’re sure reliable, with clear rules and a short time commitment required to play them. Since the Wordle phenomenon lost its steam, puzzle website Puzzmo has stepped in to offer a much greater variety of brain-teasers, now including a fantastic introduction to crosswords for the puzzle curious.
It might not seem like crosswords need much of a tutorial in the first place. All you need to do is figure out the word each clue points to and you’re set, right? But as crossword aficionados already know, there’s a lot more to it than that when it comes to how the clues themselves are constructed, and understanding that language can give you a huge headstart in solving the puzzles. That’s where the mini-crosswords Puzzmo recently ran as a sort of crossword strategy guide come in.
