The Guardian will release its annual Puzzles summer special on Saturday 25 July, a flagship 32-page print supplement designed to offer UK audiences a high-quality, engaging way to “upgrade their downtime” across the summer season.
The Puzzles summer special comes as the Guardian expands its fast-growing online puzzles offer. Reaching more than 2 million monthly puzzle players, the Guardian continues to delight, challenge and baffle puzzlers of every level with a growing selection of crosswords, brainteasers and quizzes.
Curated by puzzles editor Alan Evans
This year’s summer edition features top puzzle setters including Alex Bellos, Thomas Eaton, Frank Paul, and Alan Connor, and is crafted with the wit and depth puzzle enthusiasts of every level expect year-round.
Highlights from the supplement
- World-class logic championship puzzles: Test your brain against official challenges set at the 32nd World Puzzle Championships in Eger, Hungary, recently won by the UK’s Freddie Hand.
- A summer metapuzzle: Hidden throughout the issue, 34 blue-colored puzzle answers spell out a secret phrase linked to a major historic event that took place 61 years ago on 25 July 1965.
- Crosswords to suit every ability: Features a jumbo cryptic by Paul, a beginner-friendly quick cryptic by Dice, a US-style maxi by Brassica, a jumbo by Sy, and Alan Connor’s now-traditional “Most Guardian Crossword Ever”.
- A quizzer’s paradise: Picture rounds and interactive trivia like “Who were we talking about?”, challenging readers to identify global stars from early Guardian media profiles, alongside Thomas Eaton’s popular Saturday quiz.
Alan Evans, puzzles editor at The Guardian
“From our most popular formats like crosswords and sudokus to completely new and unfamiliar puzzles, our Summer Puzzles Special should have something for everyone. It has everything from fun children’s puzzles to fiendish puzzles that will test even experts, as well as trivia, geography games, brainteasers and more. The Guardian is planning to expand its puzzles offering significantly in the coming months, and this supplement will provide a taster of what’s to come.”
Availability
The Guardian summer puzzle supplement is available in the UK with the print edition of The Guardian on Saturday 25 July. A downloadable version of the supplement is also available to subscribers of the Guardian Editions app. There are even more daily, weekly and monthly puzzles to play on-the-go in the Guardian app - available in the App Store and Google Play.
