Crack Today’s Netflix Puzzled Daily Games: Complete Solutions for December 20, 2025
Netflix Puzzled cranks up the Saturday challenge on December 20, 2025, packing curveball clues and niche-knowledge traps that will slow even seasoned solvers—then cap the session with a roundup of the top 10 daily puzzle games.
Saturday puzzles on Netflix Puzzled can be a little mean, and December 20, 2025 is fully in that mood. Expect a couple of sly prompts, some specific pop-culture knowledge, and at least one section that looks easy until it absolutely isn't. Here's the full rundown, clean and clear, with every answer you need.
Bonza: Holiday Movie Stars
The hint is "Holiday Movie Stars," and it's all about piecing together famous characters tied to Christmas and winter movies. Across you're building SCROOGE, SANTA, and JOHN MCCLANE; down you're locking in GRINCH, ELF, CLAUS, and KEVIN (yes, that Kevin, as in McCallister). Nice mix of Dickens and action chaos in one grid.
Jigsaw: Trams and Tiles
This week's postcard series keeps rolling with a Lisbon stop: "Trams and Tiles" spotlights the Ascensor da Bica (aka the Bica Funicular). Lots of samey colors and repeating patterns here, so don't be shocked if this one eats more time than usual.
Crossover
Swap the tiles into place and you get a clean set of entries: RVS for "Campers for campers (for short)," OATH for "Solemn vow," BLEEP for "___-Bloom (robot noise)," OVENS for "Pizza reheaters (among other things)," and COPED for "Managed." That last one leans into the little cop/ed tile gag before landing on the straightforward final word.
Sudoku
Three 9x9s today: "Smiley Face" (Easy), "Taking Out the Box" (Medium), and "Pointing to the Center" (Hard). Usual rules apply: each row, column, and 3x3 box gets 1 through 9 exactly once. If you hit a wall, the in-app gallery shows the completed grids.
Starstruck
Same rules as always: each row, column, and colored region gets exactly one star, and stars can't touch diagonally. The Easy board is "A to D" with stars at R1C5, R2C2, R3C4, R4C6, R5C3, R6C7, R7C1, R8C9. The Hard board is "Double the Fun" with stars at R1C7, R2C1, R3C9, R4C6, R5C4, R6C2, R7C10, R8C8, R9C5, R10C3.
Waywords
Theme is "Culinary TV," and the path spells out a lineup of food shows: THE KITCHEN, IRON CHEF, COOKED, CHOPPED, TOP CHEF, and CHEF'S TABLE. The little chef and chicken emojis in the grid funnel you to those CHEF words, but the final titles are the ones above.
Shapes
The puzzle is called "Who's There?" and the silhouette you're building is a set of stage curtains. Solve it and you get a classic movie line that never gets old:
"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain." - The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Keysmash
Theme is "In the Newsroom," and it's on the breezier side today. Fill the vowels to reveal JOURNALIST, INTERVIEW, EDITOR, DEADLINE, and COFFEE POT (two words). Yes, the coffee pot clue is a little cheeky, and yes, it's extremely correct.
Did the Lisbon tram scene slow you down, or did the patterns click fast for you? Drop your time and your favorite stumble in the comments.