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One puzzle per page, Letter or A4, answers on a separate sheet. Print one, print fifty, print them for a whole floor of a care home. What you may do with these
Sudoku
Sudoku
The classic. Nine rows, nine columns, nine boxes, and the numbers 1 to 9 in each of them.
Checked: exactly one solution
Letter PDF for Sudoku, 51 KB A4 version of Sudoku, 101 KB Answers for Sudoku, Letter PDF, 50 KB
PDF · Letter and A4 · 20 puzzles · 51 KB · answer sheet is a separate file
Killer Sudoku
Killer Sudoku
Sudoku with no starting numbers at all. Dotted cages tell you what each little group adds up to, and no digit repeats inside a cage. That is genuinely enough to solve it.
Checked: exactly one solution
Letter PDF for Killer Sudoku, 107 KB A4 version of Killer Sudoku, 302 KB Answers for Killer Sudoku, Letter PDF, 83 KB
PDF · Letter and A4 · 20 puzzles · 106 KB · answer sheet is a separate file
Calcudoku
Calcudoku
A number square with arithmetic. Every row and column uses each number once, and every dotted cage has to hit its target under the sign printed beside it. Also sold as mathdoku.
Checked: exactly one solution
Letter PDF for Calcudoku, 83 KB A4 version of Calcudoku, 166 KB Answers for Calcudoku, Letter PDF, 58 KB
PDF · Letter and A4 · 20 puzzles · 81 KB · answer sheet is a separate file
Word Fill-In
Word Fill-Ins
A crossword with no clues at all. You get the whole word list, grouped by length, and one word already in place. The rest fits together exactly one way.
Checked: exactly one solution
Letter PDF for Word Fill-Ins, 94 KB A4 version of Word Fill-Ins, 281 KB Answers for Word Fill-Ins, Letter PDF, 81 KB
PDF · Letter and A4 · 20 puzzles · 93 KB · answer sheet is a separate file
Word Search
Word Search
Themed grids in large letters. In these sets the words run across and down — never backwards, never diagonally.
Checked: complete, correct and solvable
Letter PDF for Word Search, 117 KB A4 version of Word Search, 468 KB Answers for Word Search, Letter PDF, 81 KB
PDF · Letter and A4 · 20 puzzles · 117 KB · answer sheet is a separate file
Crossword
Crosswords
A proper symmetric grid where every single letter is crossed by a second word, so there is always another way in.
Checked: complete, correct and solvable
Letter PDF for Crosswords, 143 KB A4 version of Crosswords, 464 KB Answers for Crosswords, Letter PDF, 81 KB
PDF · Letter and A4 · 20 puzzles · 143 KB · answer sheet is a separate file
Codeword
Codewords
Every letter of the alphabet has been swapped for a number from 1 to 26. Three letters are given. The other twenty-three come from the crossings.
Checked: complete, correct and solvable
Letter PDF for Codewords, 119 KB A4 version of Codewords, 517 KB Answers for Codewords, Letter PDF, 84 KB
PDF · Letter and A4 · 20 puzzles · 117 KB · answer sheet is a separate file
Maze
Mazes
One entrance, one exit, and exactly one path between them. Plenty of wrong turns.
Checked: complete, correct and solvable
Letter PDF for Mazes, 60 KB A4 version of Mazes, 146 KB Answers for Mazes, Letter PDF, 80 KB
PDF · Letter and A4 · 20 mazes · 60 KB · answer sheet is a separate file
That’s 160 free puzzles. New sets go up as I finish them, and nothing ever gets rotated off — once a set is on a shelf it stays there. See every set
Holding one of my books?
There’s a short code on a page inside the book, just after the answers, right beside the little square you can scan with a phone. It’s two or three letters and a number — something like KS1.
Each book has its own page of bonus puzzles that aren’t anywhere else on this site. Tap your book’s cover on the next page; you don’t have to type anything.
Large print, and yours to print
Every set is laid out large from the start: instructions at 18 point and up, one puzzle per page, black on white, with room for a thumb and a pencil.
Print them at home, for your class, your library, or the care home where you work. You don’t need to ask. Just please don’t sell them.
Books this autumn
Large-print killer sudoku, as a run of volumes rather than one lonely book. Every listing will tell you the puzzle count, the type size in points, the trim size and the difficulty.
A new set in your inbox
One or two emails a month, puzzles in every one, plus one set a month that isn’t on this site at all.
I’ll email you once to confirm it’s really you — that’s my record of your consent, which Canadian anti-spam law requires me to keep. The unsubscribe link is at the bottom of every email after that and it works the first time you click it. I use a company called Kit to send the emails, which means they store your address. How I handle it
One person, one bench
Bookatello is one person, a laptop and a workshop in Ontario, Canada.
If you find a mistake in something I’ve published, write to me and I’ll fix the file and fix the printing. hello@bookatello.com is a real address and I’m the one reading it.