Q-Less

Meet your new brain training obsession! A brilliant combination of wordplay and strategy, Q-Less challenges you to build a crossword puzzle from only 12 letters (no Qs).

Buzzed about on social media and featured in Esquire, the New Yorker Gift Guide, and the Wall Street Journal, Q-Less is an addictive fusion of crossword and solitaire—now brought to you in an exciting book format by the inventor himself, Tom Sturdevant, and his children, Margie and Peter.

The rules are simple: the reader is given 12 letters, excluding Qs, to fill in or create a crossword. Words must be at least 3 letters long. To make things even more interesting, this innovative book includes a new, never-before-seen format in the Guided Puzzles section, where you are given the format of the crossword and some of the letters (maybe even a clue!) to get started. 

The puzzles are an assortment of easy, medium, and hard, so that you never know what you’re going to get next. (Top tip: Make sure you’re using a pencil, as even the best of us need to erase often.)

In this puzzle book, enjoy:

• 10 Warm-Up Puzzles to get your brain ready
• 110 Guided Puzzles in varying levels of easy, medium, and hard
• 80 Freeform Puzzles similar to the original game
• Up to 4 possible solutions for each of the Guided and Freeform Puzzles

With so many possible solutions for the Freeform Puzzles—one time, there were eighty solutions!—it simply isn’t feasible to fit them all in this book. But this creates even more fun because you can share your favorite solutions with others playing the game. Just scan the included QR code to join the Q-Less community.

Start training your brain with this ingenious puzzle book, and share the joy with puzzle lovers across the world!