The Atlantic has 5 games, all accessible from the games hub on desktop computers and the Games tab on the updated version of The Atlantic app. To play a game, scroll to the icon of the game you want to play and click Play. The archives to past games are also accessible via that same hub, under the “Play” button.
Rabbithole
Rabbithole is The Atlantic’s daily trivia game, where every answer leads you deeper into the game by becoming part of the next question. Work your way through seven increasingly challenging questions, earning up to three points per question depending on whether you answer on your own, use a hint, or choose from multiple-choice options.
Lemony Snicket's Suspicious Incident in Dubious Park
Step into Lemony Snicket's Suspicious Incident in Dubious Park, an interactive mystery where you must uncover a killer hiding somewhere in the park. Explore an illustrated world, question suspicious characters, gather clues, and piece together the truth before making your accusation.
How to Play:
- Explore the park: Navigate the illustrated map and discover characters, locations, and objects to investigate.
- Question characters: Talk to the people you meet to gather information, compare stories, and uncover new leads.
- Examine clues: Inspect objects throughout the park for details that may help solve the case.
- Follow the evidence: As you make discoveries, new conversations and clues may become available.
- Use hints if needed: If you're unsure where to go next, your detective partner can provide guidance.
- Make your accusation: Once you've gathered enough evidence, identify who you believe committed the crime and see if you've solved the mystery.
After completing the mystery, you can continue exploring the park to uncover details and conversations you may have missed.
Crossword
The Atlantic crossword is a mini puzzle that gets bigger and more difficult every day, with a full-size themeless puzzle every Sunday. The puzzle goes live at midnight ET.
Each crossword includes the ability to solve alongside a friend (Social Play) by clicking the icon to the right of the timer on the top left corner above the puzzle.
You can reveal or check your answers by clicking the Assist drop-down menu on the top right corner above the grid.
You can print your puzzle by clicking the print button on the top right corner above the grid.
You can also customize your solving experience by clicking on the settings button on the top right corner above the grid.
Bracket City
Bracket City is a daily word game where nested clues resolve into other clues, eventually revealing a fun fact from today in history. New puzzles go live every day at midnight ET.
You can start by typing an answer to any bracketed clue highlighted in light blue into the input bar on the bottom. If it’s right, the clue will disappear and the answer will become part of the next clue. If you’re wrong, it will say “incorrect.”
If you’re stuck, you can tap on any light-blue clue to peek at the first letter of the answer or reveal it entirely.
To play the tutorial, click on the question mark on the top right corner of the puzzle.
To change settings, including dark mode and hard mode, click on the exclamation mark on the top left corner of the puzzle.
To access the archives, click on the date in the center above the puzzle.
Stacks
Stacks is no longer available in the Games Hub, but previously published puzzles can still be accessed through their direct links and the puzzle archive page.
Stacks was a daily word puzzle where the goal is to drop words on top of each other in an order and position that creates new words going across. New puzzles go live every day at midnight ET.
Click on a word in the bank at the top of the puzzle to get it ready to drop. Click the arrows on either side of the selected word to move it left or right to test out different positions.
Click the drop button below the selected word or the down arrow on your desktop keyboard to make a drop. Undo a drop by clicking the “Undo Drop” button at the bottom of the stack.
When a word has been dropped in the right stack, it will turn green.
To play the tutorial, click the question mark on the top right corner of the puzzle.
To play on hard mode, with no silhouette and limited Undo Drops, click the gear icon on the top right corner of the puzzle.
Caleb’s Inferno
Caleb's Inferno is no longer available in the Games Hub, but previously published puzzles can still be accessed through their direct links and the puzzle archive page.
Caleb’s Inferno is a variation of the crossword that gets more difficult as you solve downward. This puzzle was published monthly on the back page of the print magazine. Online, it was published the Sunday before the print magazine was released.