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Puzzle Press · runs in your browser

Puzzle books, made and checked, ready to print.

Pick the puzzles, the paper size and how hard. Puzzle Press makes every puzzle, solves each one again to check it, lays the book out on real pages and hands over the files a printer asks for.

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Puzzle Press runs in a browser now, and is being tried out by its first few users. It is not on sale yet, and there is no date for that.

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Real pages

Straight off the press.

Every page here was made by Puzzle Press, for a practice book. Nothing was drawn for this site. Press one to see it larger.

Which pages to show

  1. A finished 3D maze page: a maze drawn as solid blocks seen from above and to one side, with flights of stairs between its levels, the start at the top left and the end at the bottom right.3D mazeMazes and drawing
  2. A finished picture maze page: a maze in the shape of a lighthouse with beams of light either side, the start at its top and the end at its foot.Picture mazeMazes and drawing
  3. A finished spot the difference page: two detailed line drawings of a harbour, with fishing boats, cottages, gulls and a lighthouse, one above the other, and the words Find the 12 differences between the two pictures.Spot the differenceMazes and drawing
  4. A finished tangled lines page: four small pictures across the top and four across the bottom, joined by four long lines that loop and cross in a tangle.Tangled linesMazes and drawing
  5. A finished fingerprints page from a detective case file: one large fingerprint lifted from the scene, and eight named suspects’ fingerprints beneath it to compare.FingerprintsDetective
  6. A finished detailed dot-to-dot page: several hundred small numbered dots that trace the outline of a starfish.Detailed dot-to-dotMazes and drawing
  7. A finished crime scene page from a detective case file: the plan of a house with its rooms and furniture drawn, and under it five suspects as small portraits, each with a line saying where they were.Crime sceneDetective
  8. A finished cursive letters page: a large capital and small letter B in flowing script with the strokes numbered, and ruled rows of fainter letters to trace.Cursive lettersMazes and drawing
  9. A finished kakuro page: a grid of white squares to fill and dark squares, with the total for each run of squares printed in a corner.KakuroWords and numbers
  10. A finished shape fill-in page: an empty crossword-style grid in the shape of a diamond with a few letters given, and under it the list of words to fit in, sorted by length.Shape fill-inWords and numbers
  11. A finished torn photographs page from a detective case file: the top halves of six torn portraits, lettered, and six named bottom halves to match them to.Torn photographsDetective
  12. A finished trace the picture page for ages 3 and 4: a large sailing boat drawn in dashes to trace over, with a small finished one in the corner to look at.Trace the pictureFor children
  13. A finished word weave page for age 9: three ribbons across and three down, woven over and under one another, each numbered, with one letter in place and the clues beneath.Word weaveFor children
  14. A finished shadow match page for ages 3 and 4: four line drawings down the left, an elephant, a rose, a starfish and an astronaut, and their solid black shadows down the right in a different order.Shadow matchFor children
  15. A finished line-up page from a detective case file: a box of what the witness said, and nine named portraits of suspects in three rows.Line-upDetective
  16. A finished safe cracker page from a detective case file: the door of a safe showing four tries at a four-digit combination, each marked with black and white dots, and empty boxes for the answer beside the dial.Safe crackerDetective
  17. A finished crossword page: a numbered grid with black squares, and the clues across and down in columns beneath it.CrosswordWords and numbers
  18. A finished mirror drawing page for age 9: a squared grid with a shape shaded in black on the left of a dashed line, and the right side left empty to shade as its mirror.Mirror drawingFor children
  19. A finished dot markers page for ages 3 and 4: the outline of a large pumpkin filled with circles to dab with a marker.Dot markersFor children
  20. A finished word search page: a square grid of letters with sixteen nature words listed beneath it.Word searchWords and numbers
  21. A finished sudoku page: a nine by nine grid with some of its numbers given.SudokuWords and numbers
  22. A finished picture maze page for age 9: a maze in the shape of a heart, with the start at the top and the end at the bottom.Picture mazeFor children

Inside the app

Five steps, named across the top.

Real pictures of the version you sign in to, taken with a made-up customer and made-up books. Press a step to see it, and its picture to see that larger.

Which step to show

Puzzle Press in a browser, at step 1, Who is the book for? Five cards to choose from: Grown-ups, Kids age 9, Kids ages 5 to 7, Little ones ages 3 and 4, and Toddlers ages 2 and 3. Grown-ups is chosen.
1 · Who it is forGrown-ups, or children of an age. It decides which puzzles you are offered.
Step 2, What goes in the book? Ready-made books, each with a real page beside its name: Word search, Large-print word search, Hidden message word search, Sudoku, Killer sudoku, Brain games, Cryptograms, Logic puzzles and Word fill-ins. A button reads Pick my own.
2 · PuzzlesTake a ready-made book, or pick your own kinds.
Step 3, A few details. What are the words about, with Nature chosen; how many puzzles, 20; how hard, Easy; and the book’s title, Quiet Morning Word Searches. Beside them the title page and a word search, and the count: 20 puzzles, 30 pages. The black button says Make my book.
3 · DetailsHow many puzzles, how hard, and what the book is called, with two of its pages beside the questions.
Puzzle Press in a browser, at step 4 of 5, Look through. Two pages of a book of mazes side by side: a picture maze in the shape of a koala’s face, and a 3D maze drawn as solid blocks with stairs. Beside them a badge reads Checked. Nothing to fix. The black button says Save my book.
4 · Look throughThe whole book, made and checked, to look through page by page. This one is a book of mazes.
Step 5, Your book is saved. A yellow button reads Download your book, and beside it one to download them all. Under them its files, each with a Download button: the book itself as interior.pdf, the cover sizes, eight pictures for the listing, sample pages and the check report. Beside them, what to do next: download the book and the cover sizes, then go to KDP.
5 · SaveThe files, listed and ready to download, and what to do with them next.
The cupboard, at All puzzles: 132 kinds, sorted for grown-ups and for children by age, each shown by a small piece of one of its pages. The first row: Word search, Word scramble, Word fill-in and Shape fill-in.
The cupboardEvery kind of puzzle, with a page of each.

Whatever the book

The same five steps, any kind of puzzle.

What it does for you

The work it takes off your hands.

  1. 132 kinds of puzzle

    Word searches, mazes, sudoku, cryptograms, logic grids, detective puzzles and many more, for grown-ups and for children from age 2 to 9.

  2. Every puzzle checked

    It makes every puzzle, then solves each one again to check it, and measures every page against the margins before you save.

  3. Laid out to the rules

    Margins, spine and page counts follow Amazon KDP’s rules for the paper size you pick.

  4. Everything a listing needs

    The interior PDF, a sample PDF, pictures for the listing and a guide to the cover’s exact size.

  5. Never the same puzzle twice

    It remembers every puzzle it has printed, so a new book does not repeat an old one.

  6. A ready-made book, or your own

    Take a ready-made book as it is, or pick your own kinds. Then say how many puzzles, how hard, and what the book is called.

  7. Change any puzzle

    Look through the whole book before you save it. Click a puzzle to swap it for another, or to make it easier or harder.

  8. Nothing to install

    Puzzle Press runs in your browser. Sign in and start a book.

The puzzles

132 kinds, every one by name.

  • 51Grown-ups
  • 16Age 9
  • 4Ages 5–7
  • 51Ages 3–4
  • 10Ages 2–3
For grown-ups 51

Words · 13

  • Word search
  • Word scramble
  • Word fill-in
  • Shape fill-in
  • Cryptogram
  • Drop quote
  • Codeword
  • Word wheel
  • Word ladder
  • Letter grid
  • Odd word out
  • Rebus
  • Categories

Newspaper · 4

  • Typesetter
  • Word weave
  • Word pyramid
  • Word spiral

Numbers · 5

  • Sudoku
  • Kakuro
  • Futoshiki
  • Number path
  • Number search

Logic · 8

  • Nonogram
  • Star Battle
  • Shikaku
  • Binairo
  • Bridges
  • Battleships
  • Minesweeper
  • Murder mystery

Detective · 10

  • Crime scene
  • Line-up
  • Blind spot
  • Safe cracker
  • Night visit
  • Snapshots
  • The trail
  • Fingerprints
  • Torn photographs
  • Coded note

Mazes · 4

  • Maze
  • 3D maze
  • Picture maze
  • Tangled lines

Pictures and drawing · 5

  • Connect the dots
  • Detailed dot-to-dot
  • Spot the difference
  • How to draw
  • Cursive letters

Classics · 2

  • Crossword
  • Paper games
For children 81

Age 9 · 16

  • Secret code
  • Word ladder
  • Words in a word
  • Typesetter
  • Word weave
  • Word pyramid
  • Word spiral
  • Math maze
  • Number pyramid
  • Math cages
  • Math squares
  • Logic grid
  • Mystery picture
  • Mirror drawing
  • Spot the difference
  • Picture maze

Ages 5–7 · 4

  • Trace the letters
  • Sight words
  • Picture word search
  • First sums

Ages 3–4: tracing and drawing · 11

  • Trace the lines
  • First strokes
  • Trace the picture
  • Draw the other half
  • Trace the numbers
  • Dot to dot to 10
  • Dot markers
  • Draw the spots
  • Copy the picture
  • Hidden picture
  • Finish the picture

Ages 3–4: looking and matching · 14

  • Shadow match
  • Odd one out
  • Spot the difference
  • Shape hunt
  • I spy
  • Match the halves
  • Find the pairs
  • Who has gone?
  • Upside down
  • Which way?
  • Peekaboo
  • Close-up
  • Missing piece
  • Match the patterns

Ages 3–4: counting and sizes · 14

  • Count them
  • Which has more?
  • Match the number
  • Number train
  • Number hunt
  • First graph
  • One each
  • Shape robots
  • Big and small
  • The right size
  • Towers
  • Long and short
  • Full and empty
  • Seesaw

Ages 3–4: thinking and finding the way · 12

  • Sort them
  • What goes together?
  • What comes next?
  • Oops!
  • Picture sudoku
  • Where is it?
  • Bigger in real life
  • Follow the line
  • Find the way
  • Picture path
  • Stepping stones
  • Follow the arrows

Ages 2–3 · 10

  • Colour it in
  • Colour the parts
  • Trace the shapes
  • Stay on the road
  • Dot the trail
  • Find the same
  • Big and little
  • One, two, three
  • Which shape?
  • Happy or sad?

What comes out

One folder, with everything a book needs.

  • The interior PDF

    The whole book, as a printer wants it.

  • A sample PDF

    A few pages to give away.

  • Printable PDFs

    The book for a home printer, on Letter and on A4, if you ask for them.

  • Listing pictures

    Eight single puzzles for the photographs on a listing.

  • A cover size guide

    The spine and the whole cover measured out, for whoever makes the cover.

  • A check report

    Every check and its numbers, kept with the book.

It goes on sale when it is ready.

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A finished 3D maze page: a maze drawn as solid blocks seen from above and to one side, with flights of stairs between its levels, the start at the top left and the end at the bottom right.

Mazes and drawing · 1 of 22

3D maze

Walls with height, and stairs between the levels.

Close

A finished picture maze page: a maze in the shape of a lighthouse with beams of light either side, the start at its top and the end at its foot.

Mazes and drawing · 2 of 22

Picture maze

A maze cut to the shape of a picture. This one is a lighthouse.

Close

A finished spot the difference page: two detailed line drawings of a harbour, with fishing boats, cottages, gulls and a lighthouse, one above the other, and the words Find the 12 differences between the two pictures.

Mazes and drawing · 3 of 22

Spot the difference

Two detailed drawings, and twelve things changed between them.

Close

A finished tangled lines page: four small pictures across the top and four across the bottom, joined by four long lines that loop and cross in a tangle.

Mazes and drawing · 4 of 22

Tangled lines

Which line leads where? Four of them, well knotted.

Close

A finished fingerprints page from a detective case file: one large fingerprint lifted from the scene, and eight named suspects’ fingerprints beneath it to compare.

Detective · 5 of 22

Fingerprints

One print from the scene, eight suspects. Whose is it, ridge for ridge?

Close

A finished detailed dot-to-dot page: several hundred small numbered dots that trace the outline of a starfish.

Mazes and drawing · 6 of 22

Detailed dot-to-dot

Hundreds of numbered dots. This one becomes a starfish.

Close

A finished crime scene page from a detective case file: the plan of a house with its rooms and furniture drawn, and under it five suspects as small portraits, each with a line saying where they were.

Detective · 7 of 22

Crime scene

A plan of the rooms, five suspects, and where each one says they were.

Close

A finished cursive letters page: a large capital and small letter B in flowing script with the strokes numbered, and ruled rows of fainter letters to trace.

Mazes and drawing · 8 of 22

Cursive letters

A letter a page, with its strokes numbered and rows to practise on.

Close

A finished kakuro page: a grid of white squares to fill and dark squares, with the total for each run of squares printed in a corner.

Words and numbers · 9 of 22

Kakuro

A crossword in sums.

Close

A finished shape fill-in page: an empty crossword-style grid in the shape of a diamond with a few letters given, and under it the list of words to fit in, sorted by length.

Words and numbers · 10 of 22

Shape fill-in

A fill-in packed like a crossword and cut to a shape.

Close

A finished torn photographs page from a detective case file: the top halves of six torn portraits, lettered, and six named bottom halves to match them to.

Detective · 11 of 22

Torn photographs

Every photograph in the file has been torn in two. Match the halves.

Close

A finished trace the picture page for ages 3 and 4: a large sailing boat drawn in dashes to trace over, with a small finished one in the corner to look at.

For children · 12 of 22

Trace the picture

For ages 3 and 4: trace the dashes, then colour it in.

Close

A finished word weave page for age 9: three ribbons across and three down, woven over and under one another, each numbered, with one letter in place and the clues beneath.

For children · 13 of 22

Word weave

For age 9: six answers woven together, across and down.

Close

A finished shadow match page for ages 3 and 4: four line drawings down the left, an elephant, a rose, a starfish and an astronaut, and their solid black shadows down the right in a different order.

For children · 14 of 22

Shadow match

For ages 3 and 4: draw a line from each picture to its shadow.

Close

A finished line-up page from a detective case file: a box of what the witness said, and nine named portraits of suspects in three rows.

Detective · 15 of 22

Line-up

What the witness saw, and nine faces to pick the thief from.

Close

A finished safe cracker page from a detective case file: the door of a safe showing four tries at a four-digit combination, each marked with black and white dots, and empty boxes for the answer beside the dial.

Detective · 16 of 22

Safe cracker

Four tries at the combination, each one marked. Work out the real one.

Close

A finished crossword page: a numbered grid with black squares, and the clues across and down in columns beneath it.

Words and numbers · 17 of 22

Crossword

A clue for every word.

Close

A finished mirror drawing page for age 9: a squared grid with a shape shaded in black on the left of a dashed line, and the right side left empty to shade as its mirror.

For children · 18 of 22

Mirror drawing

For age 9: shade the other side so that it mirrors the first.

Close

A finished dot markers page for ages 3 and 4: the outline of a large pumpkin filled with circles to dab with a marker.

For children · 19 of 22

Dot markers

For ages 3 and 4: dab a dot in every circle.

Close

A finished word search page: a square grid of letters with sixteen nature words listed beneath it.

Words and numbers · 20 of 22

Word search

Checked so that no word turns up by accident.

Close

A finished sudoku page: a nine by nine grid with some of its numbers given.

Words and numbers · 21 of 22

Sudoku

From Easy up to Fiendish.

Close

A finished picture maze page for age 9: a maze in the shape of a heart, with the start at the top and the end at the bottom.

For children · 22 of 22

Picture maze

For age 9: find the way through the heart.

Close

Puzzle Press in a browser, at step 1, Who is the book for? Five cards to choose from: Grown-ups, Kids age 9, Kids ages 5 to 7, Little ones ages 3 and 4, and Toddlers ages 2 and 3. Grown-ups is chosen.

Puzzle Press, in a browser

1 · Who it is for

Grown-ups, or children of an age. It decides which puzzles you are offered.

Close

Step 2, What goes in the book? Ready-made books, each with a real page beside its name: Word search, Large-print word search, Hidden message word search, Sudoku, Killer sudoku, Brain games, Cryptograms, Logic puzzles and Word fill-ins. A button reads Pick my own.

Puzzle Press, in a browser

2 · Puzzles

Take a ready-made book, or pick your own kinds.

Close

Step 3, A few details. What are the words about, with Nature chosen; how many puzzles, 20; how hard, Easy; and the book’s title, Quiet Morning Word Searches. Beside them the title page and a word search, and the count: 20 puzzles, 30 pages. The black button says Make my book.

Puzzle Press, in a browser

3 · Details

How many puzzles, how hard, and what the book is called, with two of its pages beside the questions.

Close

Puzzle Press in a browser, at step 4 of 5, Look through. Two pages of a book of mazes side by side: a picture maze in the shape of a koala’s face, and a 3D maze drawn as solid blocks with stairs. Beside them a badge reads Checked. Nothing to fix. The black button says Save my book.

Puzzle Press, in a browser

4 · Look through

The whole book, made and checked, to look through page by page. This one is a book of mazes.

Close

Step 5, Your book is saved. A yellow button reads Download your book, and beside it one to download them all. Under them its files, each with a Download button: the book itself as interior.pdf, the cover sizes, eight pictures for the listing, sample pages and the check report. Beside them, what to do next: download the book and the cover sizes, then go to KDP.

Puzzle Press, in a browser

5 · Save

The files, listed and ready to download, and what to do with them next.

Close

The cupboard, at All puzzles: 132 kinds, sorted for grown-ups and for children by age, each shown by a small piece of one of its pages. The first row: Word search, Word scramble, Word fill-in and Shape fill-in.

Puzzle Press, in a browser

The cupboard

Every kind of puzzle, with a page of each.

Close

Puzzle Press in a browser at Look through, with a book of detective puzzles open: a fingerprints page beside a torn photographs page. A badge reads Checked. Nothing to fix.

Puzzle Press, in a browser

A book of detective puzzles

Fingerprints, torn photographs, line-ups and crime scenes: four of the ten Detective kinds.

Close

Puzzle Press in a browser at Look through, with a book open at a spot the difference page, two drawings of a harbour, beside a tangled lines page. A badge reads Checked. Nothing to fix.

Puzzle Press, in a browser

A book for sharp eyes

Spot the difference and tangled lines, side by side.

Close

Puzzle Press in a browser at Look through, with a book for ages 3 and 4 open at two shadow match pages: animals and things down one side, their black shadows down the other. A badge reads Checked. Nothing to fix.

Puzzle Press, in a browser

A first puzzle book

For ages 3 and 4: shadows to match, pictures to trace, dots to dab.

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Step 4, Look through your book. Two word search pages side by side; one is chosen, and beside the pages are its buttons: Swap for another, Make it easier, Make it harder, Keep it as it is. A badge reads Checked. Nothing to fix.

Puzzle Press, in a browser

A puzzle chosen

Swap it for another, make it easier, make it harder, or keep it as it is.

Close