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[mountainpuzzles]

Hello! Welcome to my puzzle collection!

This is a sideblog of a collection of little puzzles I've made (you can find my main at @mountainconnoisseur)! This is heavily inspired by @cheacegames, a very good puzzle maker, please go check out her blog and puzzles!

Currently puzzle types are:

#connections - Find four groups of four terms from the grid, based by NYT Connections puzzles and Only Connect's Connecting Wall.

#sudoku - Puzzles that are sudokus, plus potentially some extra rules to follow.

#crossword - Word puzzle where you fill in the grid according to the clues.

You can use the tags below to quickly navigate:

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Bite-sized

Clues:

Across:

1 Similar to a monkey, but without a tail

4 Before the second degree and after the seventh degree, musically

6 A type of slant at an edge, or the action to make such a slant

7 A famous allegory takes place on the walls of one of these

8 Two in an ellipse, one major and one minor

9 Postal abbreviation of the US state which the element Ts is named after

10 Spanish article, or elcitra hcnerF

11 4 across in the simplest major key

Down:

1 Label on a big red button you’d only hit in an emergency

2 Type of nut (that’s actually not a nut), commonly used in pies

3 Dodge, escape

4 “… is in the details”, also commonly shown to hide details in contracts 

5 A type of acid, or a type of cat made up during a Scrabble game

(26/05/2026)

(Solution beneath the cut)

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SI stands for Scientific Iunits

Clues:

Across:

1 Found by multiplying André-Marie’s and Georg’s units

5 Method of seeing better at far distances, in short

7 A variant of a song with new elements

8 “a.k.a.”, in a word

11 Last name of a fictitious French scientist, or the real unit of volume claimed to be named after him

Down:

1 As opposed to bacterial or fungal

2 Multiple copies of the division symbol (obscure)

3 Concept of approach used heavily in calculus

4 Shared final word in the team names of the Boston Red and the Chicago White

6 The word said by the Knights who demanded a shrubbery

9 Digital visual elements superimposed onto live footage (abbr.)

10 Element after Arsenic (abbr.)

(21/05/2026)

(Solution below cut)

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You can't teach…

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Old McDonald Didn't Have This Farm

(My main goal for this was to try to make a purple category that rivals the level of the NYT. I think I succeeded)

Note: Very hard

(17/02/2026)

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Slightly Too Small Chess

(26/01/2026)

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Nothing Hidden in the Fog?

(25/01/26)

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Out to the Ball Game

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Copy-Pasted Lines

(17/01/2026)

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Dots and Cages

(Originally made 1/01/2026)

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Made another puzzle:

Locals (Connections like us)

I made a joke about a connections puzzle, then kinda took the joke too far and made a connections themed around the refrain of Locals (Girls like us) by underscores. Knowing the song probably won't help much but go check it out, it's great

[mountainconnoisseur]

Was inspired by puzzles made by @cheacegames so I tried my hand at making a connections board:

I love pop music!

If you wanna do some puzzles (not even only connections like this), go check out her puzzles and give them a try, they’re really fun :)