Fresh activities for your residents, ready to print.

Large print puzzles built for people who have trouble seeing the small ones. Print at normal size, or big enough for a group table.

Being built now, with activity directors

This is early. I publish large print puzzle books and I am building the facility version around what activity directors actually need, rather than guessing. Talk to me and it gets built your way. There is a free pack either way, with nothing attached to it.

The problem it is meant to solve

Every week needs fresh activities. Finding them means hunting the internet, printing something that turns out too small to read, and doing it again the following Monday.

The idea is simple: a ready-to-print pack, every week, in print your residents can actually see.

What makes it different from a search result

A typeface designed for low vision. Every puzzle is set in Atkinson Hyperlegible, created by the Braille Institute. Capital I, lowercase l and the number 1 are drawn differently, so are O and 0. Nobody squints at a grid wondering which one they are looking at.
Print sizes that are actually verified. The letter size on the cover is measured against what really prints, not estimated.
Big enough for a group table. The same puzzle at 11 by 17.
Answer sheets included, so a member of staff who is not you can run the session.
Several puzzle types and difficulty levels, because a room is never all one thing.

Close-up of a large print word search grid showing clearly distinguished letters, including a capital I with crossbars.

This is a real page from a book we sell, not a mockup. Look at the capital I: it has bars top and bottom, so nobody confuses it with a lowercase l or the number 1. Same for O and zero. That is the typeface doing the work.

A full large print word search page with grid and word list.

A full page as it prints. One puzzle per page, always, so nothing is squeezed to fit.

Sizes

Standard8.5 x 11

LargeA4

Extra large11 x 17

GroupA3

Every puzzle is drawn as vector artwork, so it stays crisp at any size. Nothing here is a scan blown up until the lines go soft.

Need a size that is not on this list? Tell me what your residents need and what your printer takes. The puzzles are drawn, not photographed, so another size is a setting rather than a rebuild.

Your copier can probably already do this

Most office multifunction copiers print 11 by 17 as standard. It is desktop printers that stop at letter size. If yours is the big machine in the office, the large sheets are very likely sitting in a tray nobody uses.

Download the 11 by 17 file, send it to that machine, and choose the tabloid tray. If you cannot work out how, email me and I will help you find it. No purchase, no upgrade, nothing to install.

Black and white, on purpose

Everything prints in black on white. That is an accessibility decision before it is a cost one: black on white is the highest contrast there is, and contrast is what most low vision readers need more than colour.

It also happens to be cheaper on your copier, and it means a page that came out of a black and white machine is not a worse version of the product.

Seasonal packs may use a little colour on the header. If you would find colour useful somewhere, tell me. That is the kind of thing I would rather hear from you than guess at.

Printing rights

A facility licence covers unlimited printing for residents and activities at your location, by any member of your staff. No per-copy counting and no per-resident fees. Multiple locations need a multi-location licence.

The free pack

A real pack, not a sample of a sample

Word search, sudoku, number search and mazes. Easy through hard. Answer sheets at the back. Two versions: standard, and 11 by 17 for anyone who needs it bigger or for a group.

Print whatever you like from it. It is yours, with nothing attached.

Or just take some now

Four puzzles, one of each type. No email needed, no form. If it is useful, ask me for the full pack.

Download, standard size Download, 11 x 17

The 11 by 17 is the same four puzzles on a sheet twice the size, which makes the grid itself 29 percent wider and 67 percent bigger in area. Print one of each and put them side by side; that comparison says more than anything I can write here.

Ask me for the free pack Ask a question instead

Emails come to me, not to a helpdesk. I am in Manhattan and happy to stop by if you would rather see it printed.

If you pass it on

Activity directors talk to each other more than any supplier does. If you send another director my way, I will look after you both, with free months on whatever this turns into. Tell me who to thank and I will sort it out properly. No codes, no forms.

Who is behind it

I am Jason Friedman. I publish large print puzzle books under the pen name Theo Cipher, currently forty five of them, available on Amazon. The books came first, from the same idea: most puzzle books are printed for people with excellent eyesight and sold to people who do not have it.