EVERHALL
A table by a cafe window on a winter afternoon: a mug, a folded magazine and a spill of plants

Everhall

Everything here starts with a grid.

A new crossword every morning, free to play. Christmas puzzle books you print at home. Shirts whose grids genuinely solve. And one thing built by hand each season.

Also here: crossword tees, and a nutcracker six feet tall, painted by hand.

Printable Christmas puzzles

For the puzzle lover on your list

Puzzle books from GoodWorkBooks, our printable-puzzle imprint. Buy on Gumroad, download straight away and print at home; nothing is mailed. Every grid is checked by computer before it goes on sale.

Prices are in Canadian dollars; Gumroad may show the amount in your own currency at checkout. The words in these books (clues, stories and word lists) were written with an AI writing tool; the puzzles themselves were built and checked by our own programs. Each product page has the full details.

Everhall crossword tees

Every grid is a real crossword.

The word runs down the middle and every answer across genuinely crosses it — built and checked the same way as the daily puzzle. Gift designs for teachers, nurses, grandparents, golfers, bakers and a hundred more are on sale now, and the Halloween designs have just landed.

White t-shirt printed with a crossword built on the word NURSE
Nurse — on sale now
White t-shirt printed with a crossword built on the word DAD
Dad — on sale now
White t-shirt printed with a crossword built on the word MOM
Mom — on sale now
White t-shirt printed with a crossword built on the word GRANDPA
Grandpa — on sale now

Seasonal designs, printed on the same shirts. Thirteen Halloween grids are on TeePublic now; the Christmas set arrives there this week:

Crossword design built on the word HALLOWEEN
Halloween — on sale now
Crossword design built on the word PUMPKIN
Pumpkin — on sale now
Crossword design built on the word NUTCRACKER
Nutcracker — arriving this week
Crossword design built on the word STOCKING
Stocking — arriving this week

Featured this season

The Everhall Guard

Each winter one thing gets built by hand here, a few of them, to order. This year it is a nutcracker.

$399 CAD · local pickup

  • HeightAbout 6 ft, and 7 ft to the top of the hat
  • CoatTeal velvet, with gold braid, epaulettes and cuffs
  • FaceHand-painted
  • TrimFaux-fur beard and hair, tall faux-fur hat, black faux-fur boots, gold legs
  • BaseSquare gold base, stands on its own
  • MadeBy hand, to order, a few each season

Every one is built and painted by hand to order, so yours will differ from the photos in the details.

Indoors or on a covered porch only — the velvet and fur aren't made for rain or snow. At this size it can't go by courier, so it's local pickup or delivery nearby.

Reserving is an email, not a payment. Tell us roughly where you are and when you would like it, and we will write back with a build slot and a pickup date before anything is owed. Or just write to customerservice@everhall.ca.

One house

The same grid runs through everything we make.

Everhall began with a daily crossword and never really left it. The shirts carry real grids, built and checked the same way. And each season one thing gets made by hand.

The puzzle

Double Cross: a new grid every calendar day, free, no account. It is where the house keeps its sense of humour.

The shirts

Crossword tees for the people you buy for: every answer across truly crosses the word down the middle, checked the same way as the daily puzzle.

The season

One thing made by hand, a few of it, and then it is done for the year. This winter it is a life-size nutcracker for the hall.

Double Cross is where all of this started.
Two clues, two answers, one pair of squares — and nothing tells you which goes where. A new puzzle every day.

Play today's puzzle