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Patois Crossword
A crossword made from the dictionary. Every answer is a real Jamaican word, and finishing one shows you what each of them means.
Pick your size
- Mini
9 × 9
A few words, a few minutes. This is the daily.
Try a mini → - Standard
13 × 13
A proper crossword to settle into over a cup of tea.
Try a standard → - Big
15 × 15
More words, more crossings, and more to learn.
Try a big → - Grand
21 × 21
The full workout. On a phone you can zoom in on the part you are working on.
Try a grand →
Pick your level
Level and size are separate. A Mini can be Hard and a Grand can be Easy.
- Easy
The most familiar words. Meanings come with a category, every word starts with its first letter filled in, and you can check and reveal.
- Medium
A wider vocabulary. Clues are the meaning, and you can have wrong letters marked but never shown the answer.
- Hard
Everything in the dictionary, including phrases. Clues are a Patois sentence with the word missing. No checking, no revealing.
All puzzles
Standard
Easy No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6 No. 7 No. 8
Big
Easy No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5
Grand
Mini
One a day, gentle at the start of the week and harder at the weekend. The ones already behind everyone are here, so you can catch up.
The first Mini arrives on 21 September 2026. Check back then, or try one of the bigger puzzles above.
How the Patois crossword works
These are free-form crosswords: the words interlock with space around them, which is how vocabulary crosswords are built. Fill in every word, and the ones that cross give you letters to work from. The number in brackets after a clue is the length of the answer, and a phrase such as (3,5) is typed as one run of letters.
Every clue is written from the dictionary entry it belongs to, so a puzzle cannot drift from the words it teaches. When you finish, each answer shows its meaning, its pronunciation and an example sentence, with a link to its full entry.
Patois has no single official spelling, so the game accepts the other spellings the dictionary records. You can print any puzzle from your browser’s print menu. Prefer a different kind of game? Try the daily word game Guess Di Word or a Patois quiz, or see all the games.
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