Crossflip (Puzzmallow)

About Crossflip (Puzzmallow)

Crossflip is one of the daily puzzles on Puzzmallow, the site that also makes Quickflip, Wordspan, Pipcross and Terraformation. Each day brings a numbered puzzle with a theme written above the grid, sometimes with a twist: one October 2026 puzzle asked for the months spelled without vowels.

The grid looks like a small crossword, but every square is a tile with a different letter on each side. Each across and down entry can therefore spell two words. One belongs to the theme and the other is a decoy chosen to look plausible. Flipping a tile where two words cross changes both of them, so the puzzle is about finding the order of flips that turns every entry into a theme word.

The game counts your flips and shows a par for the day, so a clean solve means working out the answer before you touch a tile. A timer can be shown, the site keeps your stats and win streak, and earlier puzzles can be played from the archive.

It suits players who enjoy themed word puzzles like Strands but want a little planning in the mix, and anyone who has played Quickflip and wants a longer puzzle on the same idea.

How to play Crossflip (Puzzmallow)

1. Open Crossflip on puzzmallow.com and read the day's theme above the grid.
2. Look at each row and column: it can spell a theme word or a decoy.
3. Tap a tile to flip it to the letter on its other side.
4. Keep flipping until every entry in the grid is a word that fits the theme.
5. Try to finish in no more flips than the par shown at the top.

Tips

• Solve on paper first: find each theme word before flipping anything.
• Start with crossings, since one flip there fixes or breaks two words.
• Read the theme closely; a twist like missing vowels changes what a word looks like.

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