There's this game on the Washington Post website called "The Crickler." It's a daily puzzle where you fill in the correct letter boxes corresponding to clues about that day's top news stories. Oftentimes I don't have the time to go through the entire newspaper (or website) looking for the most important items; this game pulls those things out for me, telling me about the news in an interesting, interactive way. Along with Cricklers of the daily news stories, there are others called "Vocabulary Puzzles" where you fill in the letters for vocab words corresponding to short clues or definitions. There are weekly puzzles that generally are fine tuned on a specific topic like a state or a country. Also, there are crossword Cricklers that take the daily crossword puzzle and rework it into Crickler format.
What I like so much about this game is that when you guess letters incorrectly, it lets you know. When you a guess a correct letter, the puzzle fills in every box throughout the puzzle that is the same letter. You can adjust the handicap of the game, making it more challenging for more advanced players, and less so for beginners. Lately, I've kinda been slacking and have not been doing the puzzles daily. Sometimes I settle for a Sudoku or a Wordsearch instead. Anything to engage the brain is fine with me.
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