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Mini Chess

Edition No. 32 · Solo chess · 3–8 min

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Great MindsNo right answers, only popular ones. Do you think like everyone else?Pixel PeekName the hidden picture before it fully decrypts.More or LessOne topic, ten match-ups. Pick the bigger one — one slip ends it.TwistyOne cryptic crossword clue a day. New to cryptics? It teaches you.Daily MateOne chess problem a day. Find the forced checkmate.Nine LandsNine countries on a 3×3 grid of clues — rarer answers score more.Time StackStack six moments from history oldest to newest. Three tries.AftercolorFive colours flash and vanish. Paint them back from memory.HieroglyphicsCrack a tablet in a lost script. Gentle Monday, fiendish Sunday.Diamond MindbenderDeduce a diamond of digits: sums, gaps and gems. Fiendish Sundays.RecallStudy one snapshot of a room. Then answer 8 questions from memory.Daily MazeOne maze for everyone. Fog, keys, ice, spinning walls — beat par.Breakfast PanPack every bit of breakfast onto the plate. No gaps, no spills.ZubixSlide and twist a scrambled pixel picture back. Beat par.MinimalOne tiny logic puzzle. The genre rotates; Sunday is fiendish.CrosswiredJoin every pair, cross only on bridges, light the whole board.Word LaunderingWash a dirty word clean, one letter at a time. Can you hit par?Double LifeSix words, each living two unrelated lives. Unmask them.QuiltworkSew the quilt: every patch holds each fabric once.Compound ChainEvery pair of links makes a compound word. Forge the chain.The Impostor's DictionaryRare words, fake definitions, invented words. Unmask the impostors.Daily QuestSearch the web, follow the Archivist’s trail, crack the vault.Word AutopsyCut three words into their roots, tag each part, name the source.The Stupid Person GameSix stupidly easy questions. Every one is a trap.Deep PixelA secret is hidden in today’s picture. Pull it out with lab tools.Rude RebusThree word-picture riddles a day. The game heckles you.Root & StemGrow real words from one Latin or Greek root a day.Daily ParkingSlide the cars and get your red one out of the jammed car park.ProofreadSpot the planted mistakes in today’s article before it goes to print.NumberlockHit three targets with + − × ÷. Every lock is solvable.