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What are the key features of puzzles on Puzzler.com?

Our interactive puzzles on Puzzler.com are designed to be playable across multi-platform browsers, including desktop PCs and mobile devices so that you can enjoy our puzzles anywhere

However, we recognise that certain features may be new to our existing audience, therefore here are a few details that may help you.

Menu

This takes you straight back to chooser screen to select other puzzle types.

Using the "SORT" button, you can sort puzzles into:

  • puzzle types
  • newest puzzles
  • incomplete puzzles
  • completed
  • or reset back to default, which shows puzzles in date order.

Scroll and select a puzzle to play, or simply view which have been completed, or paused, or incorrectly completed, with ability to resume part completed/started puzzles, or reset a puzzle.

‘?’

This brings up the hint options for when you need a little help with a clue.

Backwords

Use the mono icon to toggle the grid between a white background with black shading of cells, and black background with white shading of cells.

Sudoku

Use the crosshair ICON to toggle highlighted row/column on/off.

Pencil mode allows you to place up to nine numbers in a single cell.

Crosswords / Cryptic Crosswords

The A/D icon allows you to skip to the next available Across or Down, uncompleted clue rather than having to toggle through each and every clue, as a quick way to work through the completion of the grid.

The ABC icon allows you to toggle on/off the ability to skip intersecting cells where you have previously entered a letter.

The up/down arrows allow you to work through each and every across/down clue sequentially.

Selection of a cell within the grid will bring up and highlight the associated clue, or selection of a clue will highlight the associated cell range within the range.

Smartphone users are also able to populate the keyboard on/off from view, and depending on orientation, also populate the clue list from view on/off.

Codewords

To enter a letter into a cell, or series of cells, either select a cell, or a keypad number, and enter your chosen letter, which will then automatically fill the linked cells with the same number.

Wordsearch

There are a number of ways to identify a found word: either select first letter and last to join them to reveal a word, or select first letter and drag to last letter to reveal, or last letter and then first letter.

Scroll the word list by using the mouse; or on smartphone or tablet, swipe the word list up/down to reveal words.

Smartphone users are also able to view the word list via a selection of the word list ICON.

Kriss Kross & Number Jig

Our format has a jeopardy element, whereby newly placed words that are dropped into the grid that do not intersect with previously entered words, will remove the previously entered words and place them back into the word list – this keeps us concentrating on where and what we are placing into the grid.

To place a word into the grid:

  • select a word from the word list
  • drag across to the grid
  • hover over a cell range, and when the picked-up word changes colour, it’s ready to be released and dropped into the highlighted cell range.
  • to remove a word, simply select and drag from the grid back to the word list
  • to change word Across or Down, simply hover over an intersection cell to change orientation of dragged word.
  • smartphone users can reveal word list and drag from revealed word list across to grid.

 

Content on this page last reviewed or updated: 23 July 2025
Content on this page next due for review: 23 January 2026