Unplugged & Unwound

Put the phone down.

Pick up a mystery.

Screen-free puzzle books for grown-ups: logic mysteries, word searches, codes to crack and locked rooms to escape. Just you, a pencil and a cup of tea.

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The Books

cozy mysteries by Iris Carrow
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Murder at Kettle Lake

a logic puzzle book

50 cosy logic mysteries set in a small Canadian lake town. Read the clues, fill in the grid, and work out who did it, where, and with what. Answers in the back.

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Whodunit Word Search

a large-print word search book

100 word searches across 10 mysteries. Find the words, and the leftover letters spell out a hidden clue. Collect them all to name the culprit.

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Coming soon: a new book every week
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The Thornfield Inheritance
An escape room in a book: four locked rooms and one final Vault.
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Crack the Safe
120 Kakuro number puzzles, from gentle warm-ups to expert safes.
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Cozy Clues
50 bold, easy and relaxing mystery coloring pages.
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Coded Confessions
100 large-print cryptograms: secret messages to decode.
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a free printable mystery

The Missing Brooch

A garnet brooch vanishes from the village Harvest Tea, and four suspects were nearby. Solve four puzzles to collect four clues, then name the thief.

  • A word search, a cryptogram, a logic grid and a mini Kakuro
  • 11 printable pages, answers included
  • Plus first word on new books and early-reader invitations

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Why Unplug?

the best evenings don't need a charger

Somewhere along the way, our downtime got crowded. Phones buzz through dinner, scrolling fills the gaps, and "just five minutes" on a screen turns into an hour we can't quite account for.

Unplugged & Unwound makes puzzle and activity books for grown-ups who want some of that time back. No apps, no notifications, no batteries. Just paper, a pencil and something good to think about.

Every book is made to be picked up for ten minutes with your morning coffee, or lost in for a whole evening with your phone in another room.

Fair puzzlesEvery mystery can be solved from the clues on the page. No tricks, no guessing.
Cozy, never goryA little light murder, a lot of tea and village gossip. Nothing that keeps you up at night.
Answers includedEvery book has full solutions in the back, for checking or for the occasional peek.
Easy on the eyesClean layouts and large print where it counts, made for relaxing, not squinting.

So put the kettle on, find a comfy chair, and leave the phone somewhere else for a while.

Put the phone down. Pick up a pencil. Unwind.