Master The Atlantic Games: Today’s Answers for October 18, 2025

It is Saturday, October 18, 2025. If your brain still has some gas left after the week, The Atlantic Games dropped a fresh trio of puzzles. If you are stuck or just want to see how today’s grids connect, I walked through the solutions below. Fair warning: there are a couple of neat, nerdy touches in here that feel oddly satisfying once you see them.

Fluxis solution

Base word: WEIGHT.

Fluxis is all about chaining words through categories and letter links, and today’s path leans into that idea pretty literally.

Category 1 - No repeated letters: Start by shaving WEIGHT down to EIGHT. Clean, no repeats.

Category 2 - Double letters: Build out to EIGHTBALLS to hit the double-letter requirement (hello, those Ls). It grows naturally off EIGHT.

Category 3 - 8 letters: Finish with SIDESHOW, which is eight letters. You grab the S from EIGHTBALLS to start it, and the whole thing loops back neatly to the W you began with in WEIGHT. Yes, they wanted you to close the circuit.

Bracket City solution

Crossword is on pause today, so Bracket City gets the spotlight. No tricky trivia here, but the game does make you think laterally and spell precisely. Here is the full chain, clue to answer, in order:

• Thing that might get a crown or a filling - TOOTH
• Thing that could be fine-toothed - COMB
• Blank-to-blank combat - HAND
• Opposite of late - EARLY
• What the early bird gets - WORM
• 🖍️ coloring ➡️ ⬅️ worm - BOOK
• Book created by Zuckerberg - FACE
• Handheld cafeteria surface - TRAY
• Syllable for a 👻 - BOO
• 'let's __ for it' 🪙 - FLIP
• flip __ (make a rude gesture) - OFF
• Kind of phone you hung up by closing it - FLIP
• off that might do a backflip - SHOW
• Shower's retractable privacy shield - CURTAIN
• Word after booty or curtain - CALL
• Boorish kind of call - CAT

Stacks solution

Objective stays the same: stack five provided words to build five entirely new ones. Today’s finished column, from bottom to top, reads:

APPLAUSE, FOREARM, REGENT, ADDLE, LIEU.

How to place the drops to get there:

1) Drop APPEARS as far left as it will go.

2) Drop ORGAN in the center column, but leave exactly one empty space to the left side of the second row from the bottom.

3) Drop REDEEM stacked directly on top of ORGAN.

4) Drop DILUTE flush to the far right.

5) Fill the remaining gaps with FALSE to lock in the final words.

So: no Crossword today. Miss it, or was the shake-up nice for a Saturday? Either way, if you wanted the solutions, you are covered.