The Sherman Edition

Connections

Puzzles composed & published in New Jersey

Family Made

Claude Made

The Archive

Nothing in print yet. Stockpile groups in the Word Bank, then assemble your first edition.

Create four groups of four.

Mistakes remaining
The Composing Room

Four groups, four words each. Yellow should feel easy; purple should feel like a trick. The craft is in the overlaps — plant words that almost belong to another group.

The Drafting Desk
House Style — what makes a puzzle good
  1. Airtight groups. All four words clearly fit the category — no maybes.
  2. Plant 5–8 traps. Words that flirt with the wrong group (CELL lives in ___ BLOCK but screams phone).
  3. One solution only. If any wrong four is defensible, cut a word (BLACK died because Blackstar is real).
  4. Order the reveal. Yellow = instant. Green = one beat. Blue = knowledge or light wordplay. Purple = the trick, found last.
  5. Test in Solver View. Colors off, shuffled. If the groups still jump out, it's too easy.
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The Bank