Circuits

About Circuits

Circuits is a Puzzmo daily created by Jacob Land, who also writes the puzzles; Madeline Kaplan edits them, after a period when Brooke Husic did. Land has said a puzzle usually waits about a month between construction and its day on the page.

The board is a set of boxes joined by arrows. Some boxes hold clue words, some are empty. Each arrow means the two words make a term when read in its direction: COMMON then SENSE, or SENSE then ORGAN. An empty box has exactly one answer, and it must work with every arrow that touches it. Some clue boxes offer two options, written with an OR, to point you in the right direction.

If you are stuck you can spend a Bolt to reveal a letter, at a cost to your score. Everyone gets the same board for the date, and Puzzmo records your time and points. Solving one box often hands you a letter or a word for the next, so a board can come together quickly once the first link is found.

It suits people who like Connections, crossword fill and word association games, and want a short puzzle with a single correct answer.

How to play Circuits

1. Open today's Circuits on puzzmo.com or in the Puzzmo app.
2. Look at the clue boxes and the arrows that connect them to the empty boxes.
3. Pick an empty box and think of a word that makes a term with every word pointing into or out of it, in the direction of each arrow.
4. Type the word into the box; it must fit all of its arrows.
5. Fill every box to complete the circuit, spending a Bolt to reveal a letter only if you need one.

Tips

• Start with the empty box that has the most arrows; more constraints make the answer easier to find.
• Say each pair aloud in the direction of the arrow; the order matters.
• When a clue box offers two options, try your word with each; one of them will make the term.
• Solve without Bolts first, since they cost points.

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