Free Games How to Print Free Large-Print Puzzles at Home
Screens are wonderful things, but there are evenings when nothing beats a puzzle on paper. No glare, no battery, no notification popping up mid-thought — just a sheet on your knee, a pencil in your hand, and that small, satisfying scratch as a number goes into a square. You can leave it on the arm of the chair and come back to it after the news.
So every puzzle game on this site now has a Print this puzzle button, and every printout comes out in big, clear print.
How the print button works
It is deliberately dull, which is the highest compliment you can pay a button.
Open a puzzle — Sudoku, say — and set it up however you like it: the difficulty, the grid size, the word theme. Then press Print this puzzle. Your browser’s own print window opens, and you either send it to your printer or choose Save as PDF to keep it for later.
Nothing is downloaded and there is nothing to install. The menus, the buttons and the adverts all drop off the page, so what lands on the paper is only the puzzle, sized to fill the sheet. The printed grid is always empty, too — whatever you had filled in on screen stays on the screen.
The sheets print black on white — no shaded grids, nothing to drink up your ink. They look the way a good puzzle book looks, and they photocopy cleanly. (Cat Sudoku is the one exception, because its colours are the puzzle; its regions print as pale tints with heavy black outlines, so it still works in black and white.)
Endless puzzles, not a fixed pack
Search for printable puzzles and you will mostly find PDF packs: fifty puzzles for a few pounds, and when you have solved the fifty, that is that. Some sites want your email address first.
This works the other way round. Press New puzzle, press Print this puzzle, and you have a brand-new sheet. Press them again and you have another. The supply does not run out, there is nothing to pay, and nobody needs your email address.
Here is what you can print today:
- Sudoku — the full 9 × 9 grid in large digits, in Easy, Medium or Hard.
- Daily Sudoku — the same, but it is today’s puzzle, the same one for everybody.
- Cat Sudoku — the “place the queens” puzzle with cats: one cat per row, column and colour, marked in with a pencil.
- Word Search — a big letter grid with the word list underneath, on the theme you choose.
- Mini Crossword — a numbered grid with the Across and Down clues set out below it.
- Nonogram — the paint-by-numbers picture puzzle, printed as an empty grid with its clue numbers.
There is a full list on the printable puzzles page.
If you run an activity group
If you organise a coffee morning, a day centre session or a care-home activity hour, you can have a room’s worth of puzzles ready in the time it takes the kettle to boil: pick a theme, press New puzzle, press Print, repeat. Print an easy one and a hard one and let people choose their own.
For a group working together, the Daily Sudoku is the one to reach for — everybody who prints it on the same day gets the same grid, so the whole table can compare notes at the end. There is no licence to read, no per-copy fee and no watermark.
Give it a try
Pick a puzzle, press the button, and see what comes out of your printer. Start on the printable puzzles page, or browse our brain puzzles and word games if you would rather play on screen after all.