Cryptic Clues

While Josh and I play most of our word and geography games in the morning (the list has grown so freakin’ long — from Wordle to Worldle and everything in between), we save the Minute Cryptic for after dinner and work on it together. We’re trying to get good enough at cryptic clues to do a full puzzle at some point.

Sometimes, we solve it, but we have no idea how we arrived at the answer.

Sometimes, we need to ask for multiple letters.

But every once in a while, we play the cryptic exactly as it is meant, figuring out the wordplay and getting the answer on the first try.

I like the Minute Cryptic because they have a short video explaining the answer afterward, so it’s truly a learning tool meant to get you ready to solve a whole puzzle.