Printable Puzzles
Sometimes you want a puzzle away from a screen - on a plane, on the porch, or to keep a child busy with a pencil. This page hands you free blank grids you can print and solve on paper: a template for the Slide Puzzle, empty grids for Nonograms and Block Puzzle, a letter grid for making your own word searches, and a sudoku-style nine-by-nine blank. Everything prints straight from your browser, with the site menu and footer tidied away automatically.
There is nothing to download and no file to open. Just hit the print button below, or use your browser's own print command, and the grids come out clean and ready to fill. When you would rather the site do the shuffling, dealing and rule-checking for you, every game is one tap away in your browser - links are dotted throughout and gathered at the bottom.
What you can print here
Each grid below is deliberately plain so you can use it in more than one way. Grab a pencil so you can erase, and print as many copies as you like.
Number the squares 1 to 15, leave one blank, then cut them out to slide for real.
A starter Nonogram or Lights Out board. Write run lengths in the margins first.
A full-size Nonogram, or a blank sheet to hide your own word search in.
A sudoku-style blank for number puzzles or a home-made letter grid.
Matches the Block Puzzle board - sketch shapes and practise clearing lines.
Tips for solving on paper
- Use a pencil. Puzzles like Nonograms and word searches need you to change your mind, so an eraser is your best friend.
- Mark what is empty, not just what is filled. On a Nonogram, a light cross in a cell you have ruled out is as useful as a filled square.
- Make a slide puzzle real. Cut the sixteen squares from the 4×4 grid, number fifteen of them, and slide the pieces inside a small tray or box lid.
- Swap word searches with a friend. Fill the 10×10 grid with your own hidden words, pad the gaps with random letters, and trade sheets.
- Keep a copy blank. Print two of any grid so you can start over without hunting for the printer again.
Prefer the site to handle the setup? Every grid above has a live version that shuffles, checks your moves and saves your best times. Read how each one plays on the rules hub.
Then play the same games online
No printer, or just want the easy version? These grids all have a free on-screen game that does the work for you.
Good to know
Puzzle.now does not offer a bundled PDF pack. Instead, the grids on this page print directly and cleanly from any browser, which keeps them free and always up to date. If you want a themed word search or a specific Nonogram picture, the fastest route is to play it online, where a fresh board is generated every time you start.