Piñones: Bite-Sized Crosswords with a Twist
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More than just clues and answers. Every solved Piñones crossword reveals letters for a final, hidden phrase. It's a crossword, an anagram, and a riddle, all in one.

Here is today’s puzzle! Best viewed on desktop, and I’m hoping we’ll get some changes to the way we input words coming soon!

Hope you enjoy and it’s a touch easier than last week’s Monday puzzle!

Instructions:

  1. Solve the grid using the clues provided. The direction of the word is indicated by the number around the grid (so some words are backwards).

  2. After you complete the grid, click the pencil icon tab at the bottom to switch over to solve the anagram. The title is a hint to the anagram!

  • DeebsterEnglish
    4·
    18 days ago

    I struggled with the anagram and now I’ve solved it I don’t quite get the clue.

    spoiler

    Salamanders can drop and regrow their tails, and you could say it’s a gambit and perhaps it’s risk (i.e. a gamble) to commit to regrowing a tail in a bid to escape…?

    • OliveSheep@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      18 days ago

      My thought process for the title is that you shouldn’t be able to solve the puzzle directly from it, but that it makes sense in retrospect and is an attempt to create that “aha!” moment when you solve the anagram and can validate your thinking with the puzzle title. I know I don’t always knock that out of the park, but in this case you’re completely on the money.

      !A salamander dropping its tail is, in my mind, a gamble that the predator will be distracted/sated with the tail so that the salamander can get away instead of being eaten, and the title itself allows for a bit of obfuscation in the sense that people can bet on coin flips or “gamble on heads or tails”.!<

      • DeebsterEnglish
        2·
        18 days ago

        Ah, then that’s fair enough! So more of a check than a straight-up cryptic clue, then.