🧩 PuzzleMe’s AI Agent Is Here

Dear Reader, 

You’re reading the monthly newsletter from Amuse Labs, covering the world of puzzles, publishing, and updates to PuzzleMe™, the most advanced digital platform for smart games. 

Introducing The World’s First Puzzle-Building AI Agent

We are excited to talk about something that has been in the works at Amuse Labs for a while. PuzzleMe Agent, the world’s first conversational interface for creating puzzles, is now live. With PuzzleMe Agent, you can create engaging, high-quality puzzles simply by chatting. Build crosswords, word searches, quizzes, and even WordroW (our custom, themeable Wordle-style game) by telling the Agent what you want.

Simply click on the “PuzzleMe AI” icon on the right of any page after you log into PuzzleMe, and type your request. The AI agent handles construction, cluing, and layout, asking for your approval or inputs at each step. This empowers everyone to become puzzle creators, opening up powerful new avenues new avenues for audience, employee and student engagement.

Trader Joe’s Thanksgiving Crossword Is Now Online

Trader Joe’s, one of America’s most popular grocery store chains, decided to do something fun this year with its iconic product guide, the Fearless Flyer. This company has been publishing this printed pamphlet, which carries entertaining stories behind some of its products, since the 1960s. This year, they used PuzzleMe to include an aptly-themed online crossword in the website for the Fearless Flyer.

This collaboration is an excellent example of how a fun puzzle experience can help maximize brand recall and engagement. With PuzzleMe’s theming features, Trader Joe’s was able to add their colors and fonts to the puzzle, giving their audience a memorable brand experience.

Morning Brew, Vox Go To Print with Puzzles

Is your carefully-created puzzle archive just sitting there gathering dust? It might be time to look into creating a book to breathe new life into your puzzles. Morning Brew is publishing its second Book of Crosswords this holiday season after the success of the first volume last year. Vox has also published two crossword books compiling Pop Culture crosswords and Mini crosswords respectively.

For publishers, puzzle books offer a great opportunity to profitably repurpose their puzzle content, build brand awareness and open up a new channel for monetization.”. With PuzzleMe’s powerful Print options, it’s really easy to export your digital puzzles into a printable format. Talk to us today for more such ideas on how puzzles can help your publication.

From the Crossworld

PuzzleMe Spotlight

A selection of updates from PuzzleMe, the most advanced digital platform for word and logic games

1. PuzzleMe for Microsoft Teams

Following our popular Slack integration, we’re excited to announce that PuzzleMe will soon be available for Microsoft Teams. L&D and HR teams will be able to use the app to organize contests or host daily puzzles directly within their Teams channels, fostering engagement and team-building.

Once launched, all you have to do is download the PuzzleMe app from the Microsoft store, share a puzzle, and anyone from your team can solve and compete on the native Teams leaderboard. A key benefit for enterprise clients is the privacy guarantee: all employee data remains stored within your Teams environment, while PuzzleMe powers the game with a great user experience

2. Sneak Peek: Guesstimate Puzzles

As a PuzzleBuzz subscriber, you get the first look at internal experiments from Amuse Labs. We’ve been testing a fun new game called Guesstimates, a custom quiz where the answers are statistics or ranges plotted on a graph. Players are prompted to plot data like “Global air travel passenger count” from 2000 to 2021 or guess the number of Wikipedia articles created in a year. You can try a playable Guesstimate here.

The fun part of this puzzle is that players are automatically scored on how close they were able to get to the actual answer. Guesstimates is still in the experimentation stage for now, but we’d love to get your feedback.

3. Revamped In-Puzzle Messaging

Messaging has always been a crucial PuzzleMe feature for guiding solvers and letting creators express their creativity. We’ve now given the entire messaging tab a revamp. Custom messages, sounds and animations are now organized into their own sections for the “Start,” “Pause,” and “Completion” experiences. 

This lets creators plan the experience for each solver milestone in an organized way, letting them pick the text, sounds, and visuals for each step. Navigate to the Messaging tab on the PuzzleMe editor to check out the new interface. You can also click on “Messaging” in our Puzzles Showcase to see great examples of how other creators have used these features.

About Us

Amuse Labs is the creator of PuzzleMe™, the leading digital platform for Smart Games. It is a B2B SaaS company trusted globally by brands and publishers, powering Crosswords, Sudokus, Jigsaws, Quizzes, Word Searches and more. Explore opportunities to partner by sending a note or applying if you’d like to work with us!