Puzzle 18: Grids For Good
Remember last time, when I said I’d love to be able to offer you some bonus puzzles in return for donating to charity, but that I didn’t have any extra puzzles? Well now I have one, as part of Grids For Good. Grids For Good is a collection of 42 original puzzles created by 44 different constructors to raise money for organizations providing coronavirus relief, as well as for groups fighting against institutional racism. You can get the whole package just by donating $10 to one of the charities on the site, or even to a related charity that’s not listed.
And one of those 42 puzzles is a meta that Laura Braunstein and I constructed. What’s a meta you ask? Nothing! What’s a meta with you? (Sorry). Anyway, a metapuzzle is a crossword where the completed grid gives you a hint towards a bonus answer. And if you find that bonus answer (or the bonus answer in the two other metas in the package, you can be entered into a drawing to win a swag bag from The Inkubator (including a tote bag, notebook, stickers, buttons, and erasers). Entries are due by July 18, so get solving!
Big thanks to Evan Birnholz for organizing Grids For Good, and to Jeremy Horwitz for some brilliant edits. That’s all for this week. Have a happy Fourth of July!