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It’s National Puzzle Day!

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Hello hello, fellow puzzlers and PuzzleNationers! It’s National Puzzle Day (aka International Puzzle Day), and we hope you’re having a fabulous time!

As you might expect, we’re overjoyed to be celebrating this puzzliest of days with you, and we’ve got a few things going on today in honor of the holiday!

There are promotions running on both the PuzzleNation Facebook page AND the Daily POP Crosswords Facebook page, so be sure to check them out! Or simply click this link for full details on today’s National Puzzle Day free coins promotion!

And that’s not all! We’ve organized an online puzzle hunt for you as well! Step 1 begins below, so why not take a few minutes and see if you can unravel an app-fueled puzzly challenge!

How are you celebrating National Puzzle Day, fellow puzzlers? Let us know in the comments below!

National Puzzle Day Puzzle Hunt: Step 1!

To complete this leg of the puzzle hunt, you’ll need to solve today’s Daily POP Crosswords App free daily puzzle.

Once you’ve solved it, keep the grid handy, because we’re going to test your anagram skills! Ready? Here we go!

Add and subtract letters from the Grid Words to form answers to the Clues. Start with the first Grid Word, subtract 2 letters, and rearrange the remaining letters to form the answer to the first Clue.

Carry over the letters you subtracted to the blanks on the next line. Now add them to the second Grid Word, subtract the number of letters indicated, and rearrange the remaining letters to form the second answer. Continue solving this way until you’re left with your final answer.

Once you’ve completed the puzzle, take your answer word (all lowercase) and plug it into the blank in this web address: https://blog.puzzlenation.com/npd-________.

If you’ve solved the puzzle correctly, that completed link will take you to the next part of the Puzzle Hunt!

Good luck!

[Note: remember to keep track of those answer words/grid words with red asterisks next to them! You’ll need them later!]

It’s Follow-Up Friday: ACPT View a Clue answers!

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Welcome to Follow-Up Friday!

Follow-Up Friday is an opportunity to look back on past posts and puzzly topics. Whether we’re updating you with new developments, providing answers to a previously posted brain teaser or puzzle, or simply revisiting a subject with a fresh perspective, Follow-Up Friday lets us look back and look forward.

In today’s post, I’ve got the answers to last Friday’s pre-ACPT edition of the View a Clue game!

If you recall, we selected ten animals that commonly show up in crossword grids — some have become crosswordese at this point — to see if the PuzzleNation audience could identify them from pictures.

So, without further ado, let’s get to it!

#1 (3 letters)

Answer: GNU, also known as a wildebeest

#2 (4 letters)

Answer: LYNX, a wild cat native to the colder regions of the Northern Hemisphere

#3 (6 letters)

Answer: ONAGER, a wild Asian donkey-like animal

#4 (4 letters)

Answer: RHEA, a flightless South American bird

#5 (6 letters)

Answer: IMPALA, an African antelope

#6 (9 letters)

Answer: SPRINGBOK, an African gazelle

#7 (4 letters)

Answer: ZEBU, a humpbacked bull native to India

#8 (5 letters)

Answer: COYPU, a South American beaverlike rodent, also known as a nutria

#9 (4 letters)

Answer: KUDU, another type of African antelope

#10 (5 letters)

Answer: HYRAX, a rodent-sized relative of the elephant, native to Africa and Asia

How did you do? Let us know in the comments below!

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Follow-Up Friday: ACPT View a Clue edition!

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Welcome to Follow-Up Friday!

Follow-Up Friday is an opportunity to look back on past posts and puzzly topics. Whether we’re updating you with new developments, providing answers to a previously posted brain teaser or puzzle, or simply revisiting a subject with a fresh perspective, Follow-Up Friday lets us look back and look forward.

In today’s post, we’ve got another edition of the View a Clue game!

In fact, the PuzzleNation audience is getting the first look at the View a Clue game I’ve put together for the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament this weekend!

We’ve got ten animals that commonly show up in crossword grids — some have become crosswordese at this point — and I want to see if the PuzzleNation audience can identify them from pictures. It’s a visual puzzle I call View a Clue!

And, as an extra treat, people who submit their answers will have a chance to win a copy of Scrimish, provided by the creative team behind that terrific card game!

So, without further ado, let’s get to it!

#1 (3 letters)

#2 (4 letters)

#3 (6 letters)

#4 (4 letters)

#5 (6 letters)

#6 (9 letters)

#7 (4 letters)

#8 (5 letters)

#9 (4 letters)

#10 (5 letters)

Submit your answers in the comments below (or reach out to us across all of our social media platforms) for a chance to win! Good luck, and enjoy!

Thanks for visiting PuzzleNation Blog today! Be sure to sign up for our newsletter to stay up-to-date on everything PuzzleNation!

You can also share your pictures with us on Instagram, friend us on Facebook, check us out on Twitter, Pinterest, and Tumblr, and explore the always-expanding library of PuzzleNation apps and games on our website!

It’s Follow-Up Friday: Holidays and Giveaways edition!

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Welcome to Follow-Up Friday!

By this time, you know the drill. Follow-Up Friday is a chance for us to revisit the subjects of previous posts and bring the PuzzleNation audience up to speed on all things puzzly.

And today, I’d like to focus on our two big promotions going on right now, the Holiday Puzzly Gift Guide and our PuzzleNation Facebook Giveaway!

First, there’s the Holiday Puzzly Gift Guide, which is one of my favorite promotions of the year.

It features puzzles by topnotch constructors like our friends at Penny/Dell Puzzles, Patrick Blindauer, Doug Peterson, Brendan Emmett Quigley, and Ian Livengood, as well as puzzles and games from a host of great companies like Baffledazzle, ThinkFun, Looney Labs, Brainwright, Calliope Games, Steve Jackson Games, Hammacher Schlemmer, Galactic Sneeze, Hip Pocket Games, and more.

Check it out, share it with your friends, and I’m sure you’ll find the perfect puzzly gift for every person on your list.

Second, and most importantly, it’s time to announce another PuzzleNation Facebook Giveaway winner! We reached (and surpassed!) 1250 Likes on our Facebook page, so one lucky member of the PuzzleNation community will win a copy of the Penny Dell Jumbo Crosswords App!

And without further ado, let’s announce the winner!

*drumroll*

Congratulations to Addie Elizabeth Robinson! You’ve won the Penny Dell Jumbo Crosswords App!

Please contact us to collect your prize!

Addie Elizabeth Robinson joins Heather Bracklin and Arleen Siegel, who each won a free download of our Classic Word Search app when we reached 1000 Likes!

And remember, we’re running the Giveaway until midnight on Sunday, so there’s still time to share our posts and Like our Facebook page to enter the drawing for a prize!

If we hit 1500 Likes, we’re giving away THREE more Classic Word Search downloads AND TWO more Penny Dell Jumbo Crossword App downloads! There are still plenty of chances to win coming up!

Thank you for your enthusiasm and support, PuzzleNationers! We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Keep on puzzling!

PuzzleNation “You Like Us, You Really Like Us!” Giveaway

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Hello fellow puzzlers and PuzzleNationers!

It’s been an awesome year for PuzzleNation, and a much of the credit for that success goes to you, the PuzzleNation audience.

We appreciate everything you’ve done: your comments and feedback, your enthusiasm and support, the puzzly spirit of everyone who reads these blog posts, everyone who enjoys our Pinterest page and follows us on Twitter and hits up Facebook every week for Wordplay Wednesday or Follow-Up Friday.

To show our thanks, and continue growing PuzzleNation, we’re launching a Contest to build the PuzzleNation audience! Just Like our Facebook page to enter!

We’ve organized some outstanding prizes to give away, and we’ll be randomly drawing names from our list of Facebook followers to receive great prizes!

At 1,000 likes, two randomly chosen followers will receive a free Classic Word Search app for Android/Kindle Fire devices! ($2.99 value, per app)

At 1,250 likes, a randomly chosen follower will receive a free Penny Dell Jumbo Crosswords app for iOS devices! ($9.99 value)

At 1,500 likes, we’ll give away three more Classic Word Search apps PLUS two more Penny Dell Jumbo Crosswords apps!

At 2,000 likes, we’ll give away five more Classic Word Search apps and three more Penny Dell Jumbo Crosswords apps!

Just imagine the possibilities. If every person who follows this blog likes the PuzzleNation Facebook page, we would blow through those first few targets!

And if you’ve already liked our FB page, you’re automatically entered in the giveaway! (But if you share this Contest with friends and they Like our Facebook page to enter, make sure they message us and tell us you recommended them!)

This promotion is live today and will run until 11:59 PM Eastern Time on November 30! Winners will be announced on Facebook and the PuzzleNation Blog on December 1st!

For full contest rules, click here.

Good luck, fellow puzzlers! We can’t wait to give away some prizes and see the PuzzleNation audience grow and flourish!

PuzzleNation Community Contest Winners Chosen Today!

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Hello puzzlers and PuzzleNationers!

I hope you had a relaxing Labor Day weekend, chock full of friends, family, and frivolity.

I for one am happy to be back to work, because it’s time to announce the winners of our PuzzleNation Community Contest Giveaway!

In celebration of the one-year anniversary of the PuzzleNation Blog, we wanted to give back to the community that’s been so good to us, so we’ve been keeping track of every like, comment, share, retweet, and gold star from members of the puzzle community for the last two weeks.

All those names were collected and tossed into our ceremonial drawing cup:

(It’s the most ceremonial thing we could find. We’ll figure out something shinier next time.)

And now, it’s time to swirl it around and blindly draw the name of our first winner, who’ll be receiving Volume 1 of our Classic Word Search iBook!

Let’s see who it is!

Oh, nice try, Fred!

(Fred recently signed on as Director of Digital Games here at PuzzleNation, and he’s obviously trying to pull a fast one on us by slipping his name into the proverbial hat. No dice, Fred! You’ll have to be craftier than that to outwit our wily PuzzleNation family!)

Okay, without further ado or attempted chicanery, let’s draw the names of our three Classic Word Search iBook winners!

Congratulations Iveliss, Matt, and Emmy! Keep your eyes peeled for a Facebook message regarding your prize!

And a very heartfelt thank you to everyone who has followed and supported us over the last year. It’s a real treat to create puzzles for you and interact with you. You truly make the puzzle community the best around!

Thanks for visiting the PuzzleNation blog today! You can like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, check out our Classic Word Search iBook (three volumes to choose from!), play our games at PuzzleNation.com, or contact us here at the blog!