Free Games How to Print Free Large-Print Puzzles at Home
Screens are fine, but some evenings a puzzle on paper is better. A sheet of paper has no glare, needs no battery and cannot pop up a notification mid-thought. You just need a sheet on your knee and a pencil. You can leave it on the arm of the chair and come back to it after the news.
Eight games here can be printed: seven have a Print this puzzle button, and Bingo has Print cards. Every printout comes out in big, clear print. If you have wondered how big the type has to be before it counts as large print, what counts as large print explains the sizes, from 18 point up.
How the print button works
Open a puzzle (Sudoku, say) and set it up however you like it: the difficulty, the grid size, the word theme. Then press Print this puzzle. Your browser’s own print window opens, and you either send it to your printer or choose Save as PDF to keep it for later.
Nothing is downloaded and there is nothing to install. The menus and buttons all drop off the page, so what lands on the paper is only the puzzle, sized to fill the sheet. The printed grid is always empty, so whatever you had filled in on screen stays on the screen.
The sheets print black on white, with no shaded grids to use up your ink, and they photocopy cleanly. Cat Sudoku is the one exception, because its colours are the puzzle; its regions print as pale tints with heavy black outlines, so it still works in black and white.
New puzzles every time, not a fixed pack
Search for printable puzzles and you will mostly find PDF packs: fifty puzzles for a few pounds, and when you have solved the fifty, that is that. Some sites want your email address first.
This works the other way round. Press New puzzle, press Print this puzzle, and you have a brand-new sheet. Press them again and you have another. The supply does not run out, there is nothing to pay, and nobody needs your email address.
Here is what you can print today:
- Sudoku: the full 9 × 9 grid in large digits, in Easy, Medium or Hard.
- Daily Sudoku: the same, but it is today’s puzzle, the same one for everybody.
- Cat Sudoku: a cat version of the queens puzzle, with one cat per row, column and colour, marked in with a pencil.
- Daily Cat Sudoku: today’s cat puzzle, the same one for everybody.
- Word Search: a big letter grid with the word list underneath, on the theme you choose.
- Mini Crossword: a numbered grid with the Across and Down clues set out below it.
- Nonogram: the paint-by-numbers picture puzzle, printed as an empty grid with its clue numbers.
- Bingo: a group of large-print cards, each one different, with a caller’s sheet of all 75 numbers. Its button is Print cards.
There is a full list on the printable puzzles page.
If you run an activity group
If you organise a coffee morning, a day centre session or a care-home activity hour, you can have a room’s worth of puzzles ready in the time it takes the kettle to boil: pick a theme, press New puzzle, press Print, repeat. Print an easy one and a hard one and let people choose their own.
For a group working together, the Daily Sudoku is the one to reach for: everybody who prints it on the same day gets the same grid, so the whole table can compare notes at the end. There is no licence to read, no per-copy fee and no watermark.
Give it a try
Pick a puzzle, press the button, and see what comes out of your printer. Start on the printable puzzles page, or browse the brain puzzles and word games if you would rather play on screen after all.
And if what you want on paper is a recipe, a letter or the words to a song rather than a puzzle, my other free site, Large Print Maker, turns whatever you paste into a large print PDF at 18, 24 or 28 point.