Solve five puzzles, win a prize!
This Halloween, I've written five spoooooky word puzzles for you to solve. The fifth of these puzzles contains a set of instructions which, when combined with some aspect of all five of these puzzles, will get you to a final "meta" answer. (More information on that below.) Submit that meta answer, and you'll be entered into a random prize drawing! Yay!
The Puzzles
☠️ #1: Something Humerus
[PDF] [PUZ] [Solve Online]
🐦 #2: Death from Above
[PDF] [PUZ] [Solve Online]
🎃 #3: Midnight Snack
[PDF] [PUZ] [Solve Online]
😵 #4: Spiral into Madness
[PDF] only (but it's a pretty one!)
🧟♀️ #5: Ghoul Friends
[PDF] [PUZ] [Solve Online]
The Meta
The meta answer is a word associated with a fictional group whose name appears in the fifth and final puzzle. Submit your answer HERE; the form will close at the stroke of midnight on November 21, 2025. Two winners will be randomly chosen for the prize drawing: one totally random choice, and then a second choice from the subset of correct answers submitted by subscribers to my newsletter. The prize is nothing fancy, just a puzzle postcard hand-drawn by yours truly thanking you for supporting my puzzlemaking endeavors.