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Codeword puzzles are usually designed to have an approachable way of starting. (I am fairly sure it would be possible to make one that was solvable in principle but really hard to find one's way into, ...

My favourite CodeWord trick is to find several partial words with the same uncoded number, and this can often reveal the letter. For example, say you have: _EST, BE_T, _ICE Each option has ...

Once you've inserted all of the starting letters, I normally see if any of the words (or certain sub-strings of them) pop out to me. For example, given ----I-G, you ...

I start by looking for the numbers that appear most often. I then look to see which of those in the short list appear at the ends of words. That often (but not always) helps to identify the E. (A ...

I am not very good at word games. I regularly use a hand-held crossword solver to help me finish quick crosswords. (Forget about cryptic crosswords. Well, I did finish one, but it took me a week, and ...