What's this?
Previously our site hosted Fortnightly (2015-2017) Topic (2018) Challenges (2020-2021), then we had a Monthly Topic Challenge (2022-2023). Seems high time for a re-re-re-reboot! After some discussions in chat, let's try this time announcing topics a month in advance. This lets people plan their puzzles further in advance.
- We will collect topic ideas here.
- Two weeks from now (15 Apr 2026), we'll announce the May topic challenge (whichever topic has the most votes).
- At the start of May, we'll announce the June topic challenge, and we'll start the May topic challenge. At this point, we get to enjoy topic-themed puzzles!
- From that point on, at the start of each month, we'll announce the next month's topic, and encourage people to post puzzles for the current month's topic.
- We will skip having a topic challenge during the month of December, because that's Advent Calendar season.
Lukas Rotter has agreed to re-run his topic challenge bot, so all we have to do is come up with topics. And puzzles, of course :)
Proposing topics
If you have an idea for a tag or a theme of any kind to use as a topic challenge, post it as an answer below. (Do note, you can propose anything, not only a tag). Each answer should start with the title of the topic in a markdown heading (## Title ##). Only one suggestion per answer, please. Check out previous topic challenges for ideas.
At the start of each month, the highest-voted answer to this post will be selected as the next month's topic. Starting from today, users can propose their themes or topics. The selected answer will then be deleted to reduce clutter in the list. Topics will also be advertised in the sidebar via a Community Event.
After the selection, a new question will automatically be created in this format. An answer will then be posted to that question with links to all the posts in the featured topic in the fortnight.
We'll again keep a list of all the topics.
Happy Puzzling!