About Puzzle Printery
Puzzle Printery is a library of original printable puzzles. Everything on the site is free: no accounts, no locked content, no watermarks.
Licensing
Free to print for personal, classroom, church and senior-activity use. Not for resale. That covers homes, classrooms, churches, libraries, and senior activity programs, in any quantity. The one thing you may not do is sell the puzzles or bundle them into a paid product.
How the puzzles are made
The puzzles are generated by our own software and curated by hand:
- Word searches and criss-cross puzzles draw from theme word lists we curate ourselves: spelling checked, era-appropriate for the nostalgia themes, trademark free, and reviewed so that every word genuinely belongs to its theme. The generator verifies that every listed word really is in the grid, and screens the random filler letters so no unfortunate words appear by accident.
- Sudoku grids are proven to have exactly one solution before they are published, and difficulty is graded by the solving techniques a puzzle actually requires rather than by guesswork.
- Cryptograms encrypt public-domain quotations: works published before 1929 and traditional proverbs. We name the author on every puzzle and cite the source work where one is documented, and we leave out the famous quotes that are routinely misattributed online.
- Mazes are generated with a single guaranteed route from entrance to exit, published with a separate solutions PDF.
What this site does not do
No signup walls, no push notifications, no selling of anything. The puzzles are the product; the site is supported by ordinary display advertising, described in the privacy policy.
Contact
Spotted a wrong word, a misattributed quote, or a puzzle problem? Email contact@puzzleprintery.com and it will be fixed in the next weekly rebuild.