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The Puzzle Desk
Crosswords, sudoku and word searchesA new set every morning, in three levels. Start with the quick one over breakfast and leave the cryptic for the evening if you like a fight.
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Six libraries. One membership.
Puzzles, audiobooks, comics, quizzes, wallpapers and a corner for the children. All of it in your browser, nothing to install, and a fresh issue every Monday.
Paid through PayPal. Cancel it yourself, in two clicks.
The Puzzle DeskThe Listening RoomThe Comics RackThe Quiz CornerThe Picture WallThe Kids' TableThe Puzzle DeskThe Listening RoomThe Comics RackThe Quiz CornerThe Picture WallThe Kids' Table
Six libraries. Open them all from the first minute.
No tiers, nothing held back, nothing extra to buy once you are in. Click any of them to see what is actually inside.
The Listening Room
Audiobooks and read-aloud storiesClassics recorded properly, alongside stories written and read for Assortica. Pick up where you left off on any device, and let it run while you cook or drive.
Look insideThe Comics Rack
Comics and illustrated readsA rack that turns over: serialised strips that continue each week, plus one-off illustrated stories to read in a sitting.
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The Quiz Corner
Quizzes and triviaTen questions a day on whatever the round happens to be, and longer themed rounds at the weekend. Play alone or set one up for the table.
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Wallpapers and personalisationBackgrounds drawn for Assortica, in every size your phone, tablet and desktop ask for. New sets each month, no watermark and nothing to sign up to twice.
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Games and worksheets by ageSorted by age rather than by subject, so you can hand over something suitable without reading it first. Printable sheets for the days out, browser games for the days in.
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Every Mondaya new issue
£7.99a month
Any devicewith a browser
A week looks something like this
A puzzle over breakfast, a chapter on the way home, something new on the screen at the end of the month.
The Listening Room
Let it run while you cook
Thirty-eight minutes of Dickens, or a short story that fits the journey.
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The Puzzle Desk
Print it and fill it in with a pen
Every puzzle fits one sheet of A4, so you can do it away from a screen.
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The Picture Wall
Eight new backgrounds this month
Sized for the phone in your pocket and the screen on your desk.
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The Comics Rack
A crossword with your coffee
Quick or cryptic, a new set every morning, and the serial continues.
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The Kids' Table
Something for a wet afternoon
Sheets sorted by age, so you can hand one over without reading it first.
Look insideThe Monday issue
One thing from most of the libraries, on the front page, every week. About an hour to get through and nothing disappears afterwards.
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What you get
Six things that make it worth the money
Beyond the libraries themselves, this is what a membership actually gives you.
Print anything on one sheet
Every puzzle, quiz round and worksheet downloads as a PDF that fits a single sheet of A4. Handy for the kitchen table, the car and the waiting room.
Set the type as large as you like
Puzzles, stories and articles come with a larger setting that stays readable when you turn it up. No pinching and no squinting.
Your place follows you
Stop a story on the phone in the kitchen and pick it up on the tablet in the evening. The same goes for a half-finished crossword.
No adverts anywhere
Not between the puzzles, not before a recording, not in the margins. You paid for it, so there is nothing to interrupt you.
One account for the household
Your partner, your children and the grandchildren on a visit all use the same membership. Nobody has to sign up twice.
A person answers, within a day
Write to us and somebody reads it. No ticket number, no chat robot, an answer within one working day.
Who it is for
Made for people who read the paper with their coffee
Assortica is not built for people who want another app to check. It is for the ones who like a crossword over breakfast, a story on the way somewhere, and something to hand the grandchildren on a wet afternoon. That is why the type is set larger than usual, why everything prints on one sheet, and why there is no feed to scroll.
- Nothing to install, on any device with a browser
- Larger type as standard, and larger still if you want it
- Print at home, so you can do the puzzle away from a screen
- One price, one account, cancelled by you in PayPal
A week at a time
What lands, and when
Nothing disappears afterwards. This is simply the rhythm of the week.
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Monday
The new issue lands
One thing from most of the libraries on the front page. About an hour of reading, listening and solving.
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Tuesday
The cryptic arrives
The same grid as Monday, set again by a harder hand. Print it or fill it in on screen.
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Wednesday
A story for the commute
Under half an hour, so it fits the journey home without leaving you hanging.
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Thursday
The serial continues
The next instalment of the comic, and the earlier parts stay on the rack.
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Friday
The weekend round
A longer quiz you can print for the table, with the answers on a separate sheet.
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Saturday
Something for the children
Sheets sorted by age, for the days out and the days in.
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Sunday
Whatever you feel like
Everything from every week before this one is still there, so nothing is lost.
Something new every Monday
Every Monday we put a handful of things on the front page, one from most of the libraries. It takes about an hour to get through, and nothing disappears afterwards.
See this week’s issueHow it works
Join in a minute
You pay through PayPal, so we never see a card number. No forms beyond your email address.
Open everything at once
There are no tiers and nothing is held back. All six libraries are yours from the first minute.
Come back on Monday
A new issue lands at the start of every week. The rest stays where it is, so nothing you liked disappears.
Why one membership
Instead of six things to keep track of
Every one of these is a separate sign-up, a separate payment and a separate password. This is all of it under one.
Without a membership
- A puzzle appwith a subscription of its own
- An audiobook servicewith credits you have to spend
- A comics appthat wants another account
- A quiz appfull of adverts between the rounds
- A wallpaper sitethat watermarks the download
- Something for the childrenthat you pay for separately
With Assortica
One membership
£7.99 a month, all six libraries, one account for the household,
cancelled by you in PayPal.
- One sign-up and one password
- One payment, on the same date each month
- No credits to spend and nothing to top up
- No adverts in any of the six libraries
- Everything printable on one sheet
- Cancelled in your own PayPal account, in two clicks
One membership instead of six
A puzzle app, an audiobook app, something for the children on a wet afternoon. This is all of it under one payment.
Nothing to install
It runs in the browser on your phone, tablet, laptop and the family computer. No app store, no updates, no storage taken up.
Made for Assortica
Everything here is either written, drawn and recorded for us, or a classic that is free of rights. That is why you will not find a film studio's logo anywhere.
Cancel it yourself
The subscription lives in your own PayPal account. You end it there, in two clicks, without asking us and without waiting for an answer.
Start this Monday
One membership, six libraries and a new issue at the start of every week. £7.99 a month, cancelled in your own PayPal account whenever you like.
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