Hi!

We're already halfway through March! Time really does fly when you're fighting crime.

In last week's newsletter I mentioned a new way of viewing your purchased Puzzle Packs. Now it's finally available! Head over to the home page (Creating an account is free) and check out the Puzzle Packs page. There you should find all (2) currently available packs. If you can't access them, you can re-claim them by entering your email address you used to purchase the packs (You'll be sent a verification mail to ensure you entered the correct address, so check your inbox!)

The page is much like the weekly archive page, listing your results and stats. This hopefully helps you keep track of which puzzles you've completed so far. You might even want to replay some of them now to see if you can get them all green! If you're not seeing your results, please check if you have a "link results" button available on the home page.

In the near future there'll be a page like this also for community puzzles. And perhaps we'll even have the full archive available one day...?

Also a settings page is coming soon. It will allow you to customize some behaviour to your liking. For example, perhaps you'd like the corner tags not to be automatically cleared, or maybe you'd like to change the font? If you have more ideas for things you'd like to configure, reach out! Just reply to this mail and I'll read it.

Now, let's again have a look at previous week's results. Top 1% / 10% / 50% solve times, % perfect results and % results with no hints.

Mon 2026-03-09 (Easy): 1m 20s / 1m 56s / 3m 24s / 54% / 90%
Tue 2026-03-10 (Easy): 1m 32s / 2m 28s / 4m 49s / 42% / 68%
Wed 2026-03-11 (Tricky): 2m 10s / 3m 14s / 6m 5s / 27% / 85%
Thu 2026-03-12 (Hard): 2m 47s / 4m 22s / 8m 22s / 25% / 74%
Fri 2026-03-13 (Hard): 2m 39s / 4m 8s / 7m 59s / 36% / 78%
Sat 2026-03-14 (Hard): 2m 58s / 4m 53s / 10m 0s / 33% / 68%
Sun 2026-03-15 (Hard): 3m 38s / 5m 57s / 11m 6s / 28% / 66%

The overall difficulty was a bit higher than usual. Perhaps due to having several clues like "only one person in ... has ... innocent neighbours"? I did receive some feedback that they aren't always the most fun clues. I'm actually not a big fan of them myself, they are very hard to scan. So I don't know why I had so many of them. I'll have less of them this week, I promise! In general, I'll be aiming for a bit lower difficulty this week. This is a great chance to get familiar with the puzzle, or to get back on the saddle, so maybe give a nudge to your friends and family!

But did I still include a ton of them in this week's bonus puzzles? You'll have to find out for yourself!

#1 Medium - https://cluesbysam.com/archive/3cd0e2de42bb
#2 Tricky - https://cluesbysam.com/archive/c3aa9817984b
#3 Hard - https://cluesbysam.com/archive/a6f5347677fb

There are also more community puzzles available! Check out this thread for all community puzzles that were shared on Reddit last week (ping me if I missed any). Great job everyone making these, they are super fun! https://www.reddit.com/r/CluesBySamHelp/comments/1rp1aso/weekly_community_puzzles_mar_9th_2026_week_11/

The editor is STILL being tested and is not yet publicly available. But apparently it's working quite well already!

That's it for now! Have a great week!

-Sam