I absolutely loved this. I printed out a copy for my mom (who is also a fan of puzzles) before I was even finished. She laughed out loud when she got to 6. The dwarf planets clued me into to most of the tricks (I like astronomy), and 9 is the first puzzle I totally completed, but I didn't actually figure out what the bottom clues were until I only had puzzles 1, 2, 11, and one word of 3 left. Puzzle one definitely gave me the most trouble, but it took me longer to realize that puzzle 2 was also zodiac, (which was hilarious). Everything came together so beautifully at the end. A wonderfully crafted puzzle.

Good game! I realized there was a metapuzzle almost immediately (also that's part of how I found it in the first place), got inklings of what it was near the end, made a second copy of the file, figured out Puzzle 11's gimmick pretty quickly because I happen to know the names of plutoids off the top of my head, and had a lot of fun. It took me most of an evening.

If I have any criticism it's that Puzzle 1 is (still) too hard, but, maybe that's the intended difficulty? There's definitely other stuff in here where you'd need to know trivia to connect it to the theme, like with HAUMEA and QUARTZ, and the theme for Puzzle 1 can't be too obvious. I ended up solving 12 first by guessing and then going back and doing 1.

Brilliant game. So clearly a work of love. <3

Beat it together with my gf, so good! I thought it was quite funny that the only thing we had to research was puzzle 1, it somehow is the hardest which suits its position in the overall puzzle. Thanks for making!

This was amazingly well put together. Excellent work! I look forward to playing whatever you create next :)

Great puzzle book so far but i cant figure out the category to 1.. i assumed it was "Cookies", But thats no where near 8 letters.. Unless i'm dumb and thats the category covered up by the blue splotch next to the half covered z6

Edit: Yep- thats it- the clues at the bottom of the page are in order of the puzzle categories. the c8 i thought was gonna be similar to "cookies" is actually "Category" because thats the 11th thing on the bottom, and this is the 11th puzzle-

late to the game but just saw a video recommended on YouTube and decided to play before watching.

what an awesome game! I’ve sent it to several friends and recommended it to cracking the cryptic also.

loved the multiple journeys through the puzzles.

and having the same word twice in puzzle 11 was hilarious! I thought I’d gone wrong so many times.

loved it

That rocked! Spent an extra about 20 minutes trying to figure out why there was an extra a, and kept thinking the end wasnt "message" because of it, before finally realizing it was "a message."

I loved the foe carton, made me certain I was on the right track! :) I did all of them up to 0 according to their most basic form first. Then it gave me LOK vibes, and I saw it was an inspiration after I did 0, so I tried to solve a bunch of things by jumping gaps and doing wrap arounds, like SIRE, and the Rules, before finishing a couple of the other puzzles and being confused why it hadnt been used (I solved 9, 4, then 7, while thinkin that the rule was "only self crossing is allowed" and that you were able to wrap and jump gaps like LOK). Then I went to back to three, got stumped for a really long time, had some wacky stuff going on, and finally tried enter crossing question. That was when I had an epiphany, went and fixed Rules, and then solved the rest.

Im excited to play more of your puzzles, this was an amazing experience! :))))

Same as merpederp (fellow Lingo enjoyer?), I found this game via Olexa and went to play it before watching the video. Was not disappointed.

Definitely has LOK vibes, perfectly captures the sense of discovery and having to go back to previous puzzles.

I somehow managed to stumble my way through the word searches and get all the words found, except for the second to final search (with palindrome and timepiece). Though, knowing how the formats and everything worked, and using the list of words found for the 12th search to reverse engineer the missing piece, I was able to solve the final word search. (I still haven't gotten that 11th puzzle completed though)

Just finished it (almost, still some work to do one puzzle 1), 3:20am where I live, I absolutely loved this game. Usually word searches are boring because they're too easy, this was not the case here :) Overall excellent game, I'll recommend it to my wordgames-enjoying friends

I just finished this and really enjoyed it! Excellently done! I had seen it recommended by Board Game Blitz on Youtube. I did version 1.23 on paper.

I found puzzle #1 to be the hardest part. After I tried to do all the crosswords, and went back and changed my answers on them after realizing the words could bend etc, I used puzzle #12 to help me figure out what the leftovers were on the puzzles I hadn't finished yet. Then after getting the final message, I didn't trust that I was actually done lol because I had no idea what the letters and numbers at the bottoms of the pages were and assumed they were an additional puzzle to do after the word searches. I came here to find out how to use those clues, and I used them along with like four lists of cookie types to finally finish word search #1 haha! 

Anyway that was really fun and I didn't want to put it down to go to bed last night! Great work!

very fun! printed it off and did it with a pencil

somehow managed to do the entire thing without realizing that specifically the right-hand side of the dividing line had mirrored words, just figured that “some” of the words were mirrored. and totally fell for the TH–E misdirection in the numbers puzzle. worked out in the end since most words don’t make sense mirrored and I figured you wouldn’t have me looking for made-up words 😌

Really enjoyed your puzzle. It started out so cryptic! But once I realized what was going on with the second puzzle it all fell into place. Also this was my first time going through a puzzle in PDF form but it all worked out very smoothly so I gotta check more out.

This was really wonderful, super elegant design and I loved how the later puzzles recontextualised the earlier ones :D

Seems like our journey was quite different to several people here! Maybe because the puzzle's been tweaked (we were playing version 1.25) or maybe because we're used to Mystery Hunt style puzzles. We spotted the cryptic numbers at the bottom of each puzzle and considered a few interpretations, though we progressed through puzzles 1-3 in the normal way (MOBSTER, RESET etc). We were carefully noting down each letter that was obscured in case those spelled something. It was around puzzle 4 or 5 that we realised what the letters at the bottom mean (it helps that we're veterans of Edrith's Quizzes that use the same notation, and puzzles 4-5 are two of the easiest sequences to spot) - though even there there was some reconsideration of inferred rules because 4 can be solved in "ortho-Boggle" style with no diagonals, but 5 can't. At that point we went back and solved 2-5 in the true way, though we still had no idea what to do with 1 or 6. Around this point we had the idea to start highlighting leftover letters and found the connection to the bottom-right clue as well. From that point 7, 9 and 10 were straightforward (though 10 played some fun tricks with the blobs); we'd realised some of the words are listed reversed, but 9 was I think the clearest confirmation that it's specifically the right-hand words that are mirrored. We'd been expecting a metapuzzle so solved 11 fairly easily, and found 0 didn't really tell us anything new - only confirmed the rules we'd already inferred. Then on about the third or fourth look back at puzzle 1 we finally worked out what 1 was doing (I've only heard of one of the five given kinds of cookie, but thankfully my wife reads American recipes) and knocked that one out. 12 was a very satisfying conclusion, drawing everything together, and so delightful how the final extraction could only by solved by combining three strands of "leftovers of 12", "traceable string in 12" and "English letter patterns". Amusingly, the one thing we missed until the final page was the count of answers - we hadn't noticed that there were exactly twelve words to find in each puzzle, even though we'd found them all!

Thanks so much for making the puzzle, and now we're very much looking forward to trying the sequel :)