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Eracade Era Museum · Worksheet 8 of 8

The Daily Puzzle Hall, 2020–now

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Read the Daily Puzzle Hall (about twenty minutes), then answer in your own words.

  1. How does a grid of coloured squares share your result without spoiling the puzzle?

  2. Why can green and yellow squares be a problem, and how did better games fix it?

  3. What year is the first newspaper crossword usually dated to?

  4. What is a “cozy” game? Name one of its kind rules.

  5. Why might “when you are done, you are done” be part of why people love a daily puzzle?

Look closely

Play one daily puzzle on Eracade, such as Letterlock. Write your result as a small grid, using G for right, A for close and X for a miss, without writing the answer.

Make your own

Design a daily puzzle for your class. What is the same for everyone each day? How would someone share how they did without giving the answer away?

Printed from eracade.com/museum/hall/daily-puzzle/

For teachers: where each answer is in the hall
  1. The result is a picture: it shows the shape of your game without revealing a single letter.
  2. Colour-blind players may not tell them apart; a high-contrast setting, shapes or patterns.
  3. Everyone gets the same puzzle: December 1913, in a New York newspaper.
  4. Cozy: little or no failure; no punishment for leaving, no nagging clock, no loss that undoes an evening’s work.
  5. Everyone gets the same puzzle: the limit respects your time; people return because the game is happy for them to stop.

The look-closely and make-your-own tasks have no single right answer. Ask pupils to explain their choice in one sentence.