Centre Puzzles

The Centre currently publishes crosswords every other weekend. alternating between Canadian Capital and Neighbourhood puzzles. Both styles, described in further detail below, are intended to feature a distinctly Canadian element while still being fully playable without it!

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CANADIAN WORDSEARCH PUZZLES

These puzzles double as a form of word-search: in each, the name of a Canadian city will emerge - built into the grid! To accomodate the new crossword medium, the typical wordsearch rules have been changed a little:

1) the name can be written forward or backward, and placed horizontally, vertically, or diagonally;

2) the name is written in a straight line, continuing over black blocks in its way, except

3) if the name reaches the edges of the grid, it will continue at a ninety degree angle from the original direction, forming an L shape. As a helpful reminder, please find below a list of Canadian capitals:

Polity	Capital
Canada	Ottawa
Alberta	Edmonton
British Columbia	Victoria
Manitoba	Winnipeg
New Brunswick	Fredericton
Newfoundland and Labrador	St. John's
Northwest Territories	Yellowknife
Nova Scotia	Halifax
Nunavut	Iqaluit
Ontario	Toronto
Prince Edward Island	Charlottetown
Quebec	Quebec City
Saskatchewan	Regina
Yukon	Whitehorse

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NEIGHBOURHOOD PUZZLES

A Neighbourhood puzzle is about as local as you can get: plucked straight from the street grid, the crossword recreates a local intersection! To keep it fair, this will only rely on streets whose names are knowable and clueable outside of their urban context; but for the intrepid and the curious, the puzzle will include a Google Maps link to the neighbourhood hosting the intersection.