I took a year off, but here is EnigMarch for 2025! This year's limitation is short text puzzles (sorry, no graphics), and the goal is to write each one in 30 minutes or less.
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Day 1: Go with the Flow [prompt: flow]
3-word "___ and ___" phrases.
Either first or last word rhymes with OWE. Clue word rhymes with the other half's word. Ex.: MUSCLE->"Hustle and Flow."
1. EDDIE 2. MESS 3. GOLLUM 4. BELLE 5. PHARAOH 6. SPIEL 7. OF 8. YAWN 9. ROUX 10. BURNER
Day 2: Go Into Labor [prompt: staff]
Drop a letter then anagram to form an occupation.
1. MISCHANCE 2. CORRUPTED 3. THEOCRATIC 4. PAST RECORD 5. HAS IT IN FOR 6. NO MORE TEARS 7. CHEAP AS DIRT 8. CULTIROSTRAL
Day 3: Go Medium or Go Home [prompt: psychic]
Name one item each, containing "guess" or "vision".
1. H.S. sports movies 2. Fashion labels founded in 1981 3. Disney+ most-watched series premieres 4. Films which earned Best Actress winners an Oscar 5. Amazon Top 100 best-selling board games
Day 4: Go Into It [prompt: heart]
Name a 7-letter word that contains these letters in the exact middle in that order.
1. XII 2. ZZS 3. LLH 4. IMN 5. PMO 6. RQI 7. OIE 8. RKD 9. OEV 10. GHW 11. CKJ 12. DUO
Day 5: Go Around the Board [prompt: trap]
1. West or Driver 2. Hat projection 3. Murder board game 4. Afrobeat innovator Kuti 5. Uses the pool 6. Noise reduction system name 7. Demonstrated 8. Not cancelled, as plans
Day 6: Go Clockwise [prompt: turn]
Give the only 1-word anagram that can be formed in each set of lowercase letters. Some letters can be rotated: a=e, b=q, d=p, h=y, m=w, n=u.
1. acimorsx 2. cdlnorst 3. acdfklnot 4. acdghmost 5. abcilmnrst 6. acdimnostz
Day 7: Go Hang a Salami [prompt: link]
Fill the blank with 3 letters so it forms 2 6-letter words. Ex.: SAL__DST = AMI (salAMI, AMIdst).
1. CHA__NCH 2. FIN__MAL 3. TUR__ANY 4. PER__FUL 5. BEH__IUM 6. REP__CET 7. BLA__OTH 8. WOR__ATE 9. UNS__ICE 10. STR__EST
Day 8: Go Fourth [prompt: quarter]
Inspired by Round 2 of Only Connect: What comes 4th in each sequence?
1. QAZ | WSX | EDC | ? 2. Quincy | Milhous | Gamaliel | ? 3. Quark | Neelix | Phlox | ? 4. (Quebec+1)/3 | (Romeo+2)/4 | (Sierra+5)/4 | ? 5. Qantas | Varig | United | ? 6. Q | TN | HNGR | ?
Day 9: Go to Sea [prompt: ship]
Add 2 Cs and anagram the result to get a new word.
1. FATHERLY 2. SERIATIM 3. ADORINGLY 4. REASONING 5. ROUNDTREE 6. SONNETEERS 7. TOURMALINE 8. RETALIATING 9. REMONSTRATE 10. REPUDIATIONS
ERRATA
Continuing EnigMarch in 2023! This year I'm limiting each puzzle to half a page in size, but same rules as before. Available in PDF version.
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I will try to post these daily as close to midnight PST as I can. Each day will have associated puzzle file(s) and a separate answers file posted the next day. Each day, EnigMarch sends out a "prompt" to inspire that day's puzzle.
ERRATA
Day 24: Line 5 originally went out with MDKFWNABKMDY, should instead be MDKFWNABMDY.
Day 26: First Yellow Blooms clue, "Assessment of acidity" should be followed by (2 wds.)
Day 30: In 18-Down's clue, "presidential" is the correct spelling.
4/2: After a little break, the answers to Day 31 have been posted, and we're done for the year! Thank you everyone!
2023 Puzzles
(available in PDF)
WEEK 4
Sunday, March 19:
MICROCOSMOS
Monday, March 20:
BIG FISH IN A SMALL POND
Tuesday, March 21:
HALVE YOURSELF A MER
Wednesday, March 22:
TINY TOTS WITH THEIR EYES ALL AGLOW
Thursday, March 23:
PIPSQUEAK
Friday, March 24:
I'VE GOT A SLIGHT CODE
Saturday, March 25:
MINI PRETZELS
WEEK 2
Sunday, March 5:
SMALL POTATOES
Monday, March 6:
ON A SMALLER SCALE
Tuesday, March 7:
SHORT AND TO THE POINT
Wednesday, March 8:
RECURSIVE LEAST SQUARES
Thursday, March 9:
SOMETHING"S A LITTLE OFF
Friday, March 10:
MINIGOLF VICTORY
Saturday, March 11:
BOLD ME CLOSER, TINY ANSWER
WEEK 5
Sunday, March 26:
THE DARLING BUDS OF... MARCH?
Monday, March 27:
A LITTLE DAB'LL DO YA
Tuesday, March 28:
NOBODY PUTS BABY IN A CORNER
Wednesday, March 29:
TO SAY THE LEAST
Thursday, March 30:
ALL IT TAKES IS A LITTLE PUSH
Friday, March 31:
WEE WEE WEE ALL THE WAY HOME
WEEK 3
Sunday, March 12:
ITTY BITTY CITY
Monday, March 13:
C'MON, BABY, LIGHT MY FIRE
Tuesday, March 14:
SECOND/MINUTE/HOUR
Wednesday, March 15:
READ THE FINE PRINT
Thursday, March 16:
I STILL DON'T KNOW SQUAT
Friday, March 17:
MINI PEARL
Saturday, March 18:
WEE R KNOT, UM, USED
I decided to take the challenge for EnigMarch in 2022, and release a puzzle a day during the entire month. Some of these puzzle types will be old standards, but others will be variations or mashups of the puzzles you know and love. Some puzzles will be inspired by other puzzle and game writers' work. I'm looking for variety!
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I will try to post these daily as close to midnight PST as I can. Each day will have a puzzle file and a separate answers file posted the next day. Each day, EnigMarch sends out a "prompt" to inspire that day's puzzle. Even though I've written parts of these puzzles to stock up, I'll do my best to incorporate the day's prompt.
ERRATA
3/7: It's come to my attention that Nurikabe #5 from the 3/6 set currently has multiple solutions. I'll be working to revise it so that there's one solution.
3/8: An early version went out with the incorrect clue number 30-41; it has been corrected to 30-42.
3/10: Correction in final paragraph from "non-unique" to "unique."
3/23: Just realized Puzzle #3, without any given letters in the answer, is ambiguous enough that I had to add a letter already written into the solution to disambiguate everything.
3/31: And that's it! Solutions are up to 3/31. I will try to redo #5 from the Nurikabe when I can.
The Puzzles
(each in PDF)
WEEK 4
Sunday, March 20:
YEAH, THAT TRACKS
Monday, March 21:
SAGITTA, THE ARROW
Tuesday, March 22:
DO AS I SAY
Wednesday, March 23:
MISSED IT BY THAT MUCH
Thursday, March 24:
THE MISSING OWLS ROUND
Friday, March 25:
WOW, WHAT ARE THE ODDS?
Saturday, March 26:
LEAVE YOUR NAME AND NUMBER
WEEK 2
Sunday, March 6:
NURIKABE
Monday, March 7:
RÄTSEL-CHAOS
Tuesday, March 8:
ANGLING
Wednesday, March 9:
ANTIMAZE
Thursday, March 10:
RISKY QUIZNESS
Friday, March 11:
CONNECT THE SPHERES
Saturday, March 12:
BEE RANCH
WEEK 3
Sunday, March 13:
COMPACT DISC
Monday, March 14:
SOMETHING DIFFERENT
Tuesday, March 15:
COME FLY WITH ME
Wednesday, March 16:
LOWERED HEX-PIC-TATIONS
Thursday, March 17:
TRIVIA-CROSS
Friday, March 18:
SPELLFOUND
Saturday, March 19:
CHECK IT OUT!