.png)
Jacob Cohen
#120: Capsules, The Digits from 1 to 9, Crossword
Three years, three months. 120 issues of Puzzles for Progress. 362 puzzles in all — not counting the 45 computer-generated Building...
top of page
Search
Jacob Cohen
- Sep 29
#119: Puzzle Spotlight: Cell Blocks (Shikaku)
Hello, and welcome to Puzzles for Progress! Today, we're shining the spotlight on a puzzle type I first discovered in The Wall Street...
1561
Jacob Cohen
- Sep 14
#118: Simple Loop, KenKen, Spiral
Hello, and welcome to Puzzles for Progress! This week, three puzzles with visual themes I think are neat. Hopefully solving does them...
1380
Jacob Cohen
- Aug 31
#117: Arrow Sudoku (8×8), Norinori, For Enders
Hello, and welcome to Puzzles for Progress! Mostly business as usual today. Today's edition of Puzzles fordle Progress, my custom wordle,...
1360
Jacob Cohen
- Aug 17
#116: Chocolate Banana (Pie), Regionless Star Battle, Building Blocks
Hello, and welcome to Puzzles for Progress! For superfans (millions, if not billions, I assume?) of my internet presence, this is perhaps...
2000
Jacob Cohen
- Aug 3
#115: Mini Crosswords Meta: Ebbed Cafe
Hello, and welcome to an edition of Puzzles for Progress unlike all previous editions! While I want to manage expectations, and not every...
1580
Jacob Cohen
- Jul 20
#114: Sextet Cycles, Chocolate Banana, Iron Norinori
Hello, and welcome to Puzzles for Progress! I hope you're all enjoying your summer. Today for you I've made three puzzles with two-word...
1890
Jacob Cohen
- Jul 6
#113: Connections Wall, The Gold General's Tour, Linguistics Is a Puzzle
Hello, and welcome to Puzzles for Progress! I'm writing this past 2am in New York (it's like midnight or 1am according to my Californian...
1550
Jacob Cohen
- Jun 22
#112: Star Battle, The Gold General's Tour, Crossword
Hello, and welcome to Puzzles for Progress! These last two weeks have really shown off the capriciousness of the puzzler creative process...
2330
Jacob Cohen
- Jun 8
#111: Puzzle Spotlight: Chocolate Banana
Hello, and welcome to Puzzles for Progress! It's been, oh, just a year and a bit since the last time I did an official Puzzle Spotlight....
2160
Jacob Cohen
- May 25
#110: Cell Blocks, L33t Like A Linguist, Upon Reflection
Hello, and welcome to Puzzles for Progress! I hope y'all are doing well. Before I get to today's puzzles: did anyone have...
1340
Jacob Cohen
- May 18
My Last NYT Puzzle; PfP Book 2: Puzzle Projects Past and Present
Hi everyone! Just some quick announcements today. My Final NYT Puzzle I've got my final Upon Reflection puzzle airing in The New York...
680
Jacob Cohen
- May 11
#109: Chocolate Banana, Enclosures, Overpath
Hello, and welcome to Puzzles for Progress! My covid-free streak finally ended, and I have been feeling substantially tireder than usual...
2000
Jacob Cohen
- May 4
The Puzzling XLNC of Jack Lance (1997–2023)
Zachary Polansky, who made puzzles under the name "Jack Lance," passed away on May 1. He was 25. Here's a link to his obituary. I...
9,2832
Jacob Cohen
- Apr 27
#108: Enclosures, Word Ladder: Crescendo, musi toki: A Linguistics Puzzle
Hello, and welcome to Puzzles for Progress! I'm shaking things up with today's puzzles: each one brings something new, or at least...
940
Jacob Cohen
- Apr 13
#107: 123 Star Battle, Whirlpool, Voxas
Hello, and welcome to Puzzles for Progress! I don't have much to say today. Except the fact that I'm back to my natural state of having...
2261
Jacob Cohen
- Mar 30
#106: Cell Blocks, Hidden Wisdom, Crossword
Hello, and welcome to Puzzles for Progress! It's the final three puzzles of 9 Hours, 9 Puzzles on offering today, and therefore was made...
1880
Jacob Cohen
- Mar 16
#105: KenKen, Yajilin, Overpath
Hello, and welcome to Puzzles for Progress! I've been busy lately, so I sure am happy I did 9 Hours, 9 Puzzles (detailed in my last post)...
1260
Jacob Cohen
- Mar 3
#104: The King's Tour, Arrow Sudoku, Building Blocks
I was tired of having no backlog, and tired of being a perfectionist. So on Saturday, February 25, I embarked on an ambitious challenge:...
1600
Jacob Cohen
- Feb 17
#103: Word Ladder, Cell Blocks, Cryptic Spiral
Hello, and welcome to my first issue of Puzzles for Progress as a New York Times-published constructor! We're only two weeks in to that...
1610
Puzzles: Blog2
bottom of page