Note from Amy: I won’t have a chance to do the Sunday NYT till after dinner, but in the meantime, I wanted to tell you about a puzzle venture from Eric Berlin. Eric has reworked his Puzzle Your Kids project (“It became clear early on that I only thought I was making puzzles for kids. It turned out I was making puzzles for anyone interested in clever, varied puzzles that use a straightforward and everyday vocabulary”) into Puzzlesnacks, not-too-hard variety puzzles for kids and adults alike. (Variety puzzles, if you don’t know, take all sorts of forms, with a handful seen in the picture above.) The more Puzzlesnacks supporters sign up through Kickstarter, the more Eric can continue making his puzzles available to children for free. A pledge of $3 a month gets you a weekly variety puzzle via email, plus a couple dozen bonus puzzles. Eric does great work and he’s experienced at making puzzles that your friends and family who don’t speak crosswordese can tackle. Click through to the Kickstarter page for more info.
The Chronicle of Higher Education is now on its summer schedule with puzzles every two weeks.
This week’s Fireball puzzle is a contest. We’ll post a review after the contest deadline.
Francis Heaney had last week’s AVCX Meta puzzle, “Well-Connected”. Let’s figure out what was going on with that now that submissions are closed.