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Puzzles for one person and one screen. A fresh one every day, the same for everybody, and hundreds more whenever you want another. Free, no signup, and your streak never leaves your device.
Today's puzzles
Every puzzle here changes daily and keeps a streak in your browser. None of them need an account, and none of them run out.
What makes these different
The rest of PaperCarnival is there to help you run something: a printable to hand out, or a timer and a scoreboard for a game already in progress. These are the games themselves. One person, one screen, five minutes, and a puzzle that is the same for everyone playing that day, which is the whole appeal of arguing about it afterwards.
Your streak stays yours
Scores, streaks and the words you have already found are kept in your own browser and nowhere else. There is no account to make, nothing is uploaded, and no leaderboard is watching. The trade is that a streak belongs to one browser on one device, and clearing your browsing data clears it.
Something to print instead?
If you want a puzzle on paper rather than on a screen, the word search maker and the crossword maker build one from your own words, answer key included. Everything PaperCarnival makes is on the tools page.