Riddles, Rhymes, and Crossword Times: How Daily Puzzles Keep Minds Bright and Sprightly

RIDDLE ME THIS, RHYME ME THAT

Daily Grind: The CrossoverThere’s no need to sign even if you’re set to groan, you’re going to love today’s daily mini crossword by Mashable, oh my! As puzzle and prose are bound, now let’s all join in a round, with some clashin’ clues most neat — solve them quickly lest your brain might be up for execution. The number and quality of words are more than enough For seasoned solvers and those just starting up, each daily puzzle promises a blast no matter how short it lasts! – no fuss, no must, no pfuuust!

A RHYME IN TIME SAVES NINE

So Many More Puzzles (score, more answers!) Crosswords aren’t the only games designed to hold your attention. Wordle, Connections and Strands all want you too. When it comes to puzzles, the sky’s the limit. You might never have to click away — you have a safety net! — let’s bet on that. And even if you’re stuck on a set, fear not! Mashable is your jet, and you’ll soar right past that threat.

FIND THE CLUE, SOLVE THE BREW

PUZZLE OF THE MONTH: October version: Too cool for school? No time to fool? What might be in store today? From 10 words that dance and prance, find out what chance you chance for advance. ‘Legal addendum’, ‘hot dog condiment’ all in queue. For each answer lies a clue, to use it you must choose it. It’s the start or the curl? The answer’s from ‘Rider’ to ‘Tea’ served just so? A puzzle flight in your eye, a delight for your brain, as you fly. The answers unfurl.

IN VERSE, FIND YOUR WAY

Rhyme as the Rapper’s Play: Not only in the rhyme of a puzzle, but in the rapper’s own fracas. Hard to master, and rarely cast, words marry, tarry, sometimes harass. Chimes work of sound, a going round it makes, in ‘Rhyme’, a rapper’s takes.

PUZZLES BEYOND THE DAY

Exercise and Tabula rasa: Die is cast if one shall play or thou, but why settle on one way? Mashable’s playpen is a pub’s sub, Where games and puzzles razzle-dazzle, mud for mud Thou hast Mahjong's grace, or Sudoku's race, But shalt thou, or dost thou, or shan't thou space?

A CROSSWORLD OF WISDOM AND WIT

THE FIT OF THE ANSWER: Day by day a thought that sticks, A battle won, a lesson taught; The little crossword – known bits Of learning, fun, put down and tried in the sun, Each day a new yarn, No matter, A world at sea of words, that will forever afford.

ABOUT RHYME

A Tool Sublime Here, indeed, is the art of rhyme, a time so prime it climbs in your mind. A tool, it’s old and bold and gold, it’s a thing that poets and bards unfold. Here is where rhyme came to play, a line in the space of crossword’s embrace, a thing it seems much more than the sound; a thing to astound, to put the profound in a bind – to wrap it up, to make it rhyme. Eight times to 10, so near and dear, what more than cheer can we share but a rhyming sphere? It makes for things here that aren’t just mere.

Rhyme in the leadings, treble or double, to ensure no dull dudgeon accost your hapless colleague. Riddles to clues, all of the news, rhyme and it blew the fuse, wherever it chose. And thus we bring this song full circle, and pay good tribute in rhyme, in endless, endless, endless time. In every line is hidden a sign, a design, signal and signpost, for all that they confine in the by-product that divides the divine.