The staggered central section of the Friday NYT evokes Andrew Ries’s 2017 themeless puzzle set, “The Stagger Sessions.” That puzzle feast was modeled after a record album, so it makes perfect sense that Andrew’s newest puzzle set is a “Five,” a Rows Garden EP. Each of the five Rows Garden puzzles is somehow connected to the number 5, and one puzzle is plus-size with a meta. The price, of course, is $5. I haven’t ordered yet because I’m still trying to decide which difficulty level I want! (Easiest is too easy for me, Hardest sounds too hard … and I could be happy with either Easier or Harder.)
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