#crosswords

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

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[the-forest-library]

*please reblog for science*

#i have a theory #basically i think these shows have such different vibes that it's hard to see how someone likes and watches both #jeopardy #wheel of fortune #alex trebek #ken jennings #vanna white #game shows #trivia #word puzzles #crosswords #polls

[mydeadgaywizards]

rip remus lupin you would have loved all the nyt games

#he would do all of them religiously #wordle #connections #crosswords #spelling bee #etc #he and reg would compete and send scores back and forth #remus lupin #regulus black #nyt games #marauders #marauders era #dead gay wizards #the marauders

[copperbadge]

When I mentioned I was feeling a bit apathetic about my usual phone games and apps, therapist (I should give her a nickname of some kind) suggested rotating in a new puzzle or game for a dopamine hit, so I thought I might go back to "Diagramless" crosswords, which is where you do a normal crossword but without any of the dark spaces or numbers. I used to do the normal crossword but when you've been doing crosswords since the age of 15 they stop being very challenging after a while.

The problem is that because diagramless or skeleton crosswords are more difficult, they're not readily available, like I couldn't just go out and buy a book of them; there was one Chicago paper that would print them but they were cribbing the clues from the LA Times and anyway that only worked when I was stealing the paper from my workplace years ago.

My workaround was to create a 15-square grid in Excel, print that out, and do them by hand (more satisfying anyway) using clues from the LA Times crossword that I copy-pasted in. I stopped doing diagramless basically because just acquiring them was slightly more work than I wanted to be doing on a regular basis. (If anyone knows of a phone app that offers them, or a book of them I could buy, sing out.)

Anyway all was going well; above you can see the first two I did, and while I'm obviously rusty it's very satisfying to just do one, let alone complete them. I didn't bring very many with me while traveling but I was doing today's and something seemed...very off. It took me about four lines in and several headscratchers to realize that the puzzle clues were randomly and unusually for a 16 square crossword and I was trying to cram them into a 15 square grid.

Insert old joke here about "You aren't allowed to do crosswords anymore when you can do them entirely wrong" etc etc

Personally I blame Dan and Doug who designed it, and Patti who let it through, but on the other hand "Dan Doug and Patti" is a great name for a folk trio so I can't be too mad.

[ID: Several images of a printed 15-square grid filled out by hand with both crossword clue answers but also the squares and numbers that give the puzzle structure; the third image is only partially filled and clearly full of errors, and the last image is of the actual LA Times puzzle pattern, showing that there are 16 squares instead of 15. This never used to happen.]

#sam has adhd #crossword #crosswords #puzzles #god dammit LA times why don't you just offer an option to remove the numbers and blanks #daniel and doug I curse you to be unable to find good coffee for two days #patti i curse you to have bad coffee spilled on you at least once by dan or doug #not yet fired from therapy

[miriamkemuri]

I am putting a lot of faith and my first Good Omens comic strip out here (first ever comic strip ever....*nervous*)

I hope the fandom likes it. 🙂

#good omens fanart #crowley x aziraphale #comic art #crosswords #cafe

[a-chaotic-dumbass]

i LOVE crosswords i LOVE sudoku i LOVE puzzles and i love love LOVE word scramble!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#i am nothing but an old man sitting in the park feeding pigeons while solving puzzles in the newspaper #crosswords #sudoku #word scramble #chaotic but like not on topic

[recoiloperated]

Across

2. English's only definite article and a common first word for book titles.

3. a place where goods and products are manufactured in quantity.

5. the side of a racetrack nearer to the center, where the lanes are shorter.

7. synonym for snared

Down

1. four letter word for assistance.

2. third person plural pronoun that's also used for nonbinary individuals.

4. a puzzle consisting of a grid of squares and blanks into which words crossing vertically and horizontally are written according to clues.

6. first person singular pronoun

#jokes #unreality #crosswords

[peachdoxie]

I love opening the Sunday crossword and immediately going what the fuck

#anecdotes by peachdoxie #crosswords

[roadki-ll]

[FREE] Resources & Websites

Scientific Journals: - Sci-Hub - NCBI - CORE - ICD Online - OpenStax

Writing Tools: - Reedsy Name Generator - Fantasy Name Generators - Grammarly - Plagiarism Checker - Wordtune - Hemingway - Portent - Visuwords - FadeOut - Creative Writing Exercises - Etymonline

Art Tools: - Pixilart - Kleki - Aggie

Photo Editing Tools: - Pixlr X - Remove BG

Games: - Minesweeper - Sudoku - Daily Crossword

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[oneefin]

gone online

a standard crossword by onefin (me) and @lunacyecho

play it on crosshare here: link

i had fun tag teaming on this one! after you solve it, you can read the constructor's notes below (which contains spoilers)

constructor's notes

luny: when onefin offered to work together on a xword, i couldn't decline. honestly, while i've never delved much into construction before, i had so much fun talking through conceptual outlines, phonetic themers, and more with them—and when i was out of ideas, their guidance and cluing finesse honed through years of experience really came through and made the puzzle shine. onefin was a great collaborator! i've enjoyed my time in the wordiness zone, and i hope you enjoy this xword. (okay, endline done.)

onefin: of all my close friends, luny has an unparalleled level of word sense and general knowledge. luny originated this xword theme by noticing the connection between PINE CONE and MINESTRONE - it's the sort of thing both of us really enjoy and i'm glad we could get a grid made for it with some of luny's amazing clueing voice

also for all you nerds who can read ipa, here's a chart you might enjoy:

#puzzle #crosswords #xwords #wordplay

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[loldental]

If you’re good at both go with whatever one you play more often.

If you’re terrible at both go with whatever one would me more tolerable

#crossword #crosswords #sudoku #poll #tumblr polls

[copperbadge]

saw your post about crosswords, and wondered if you’ve ever tried picross/nonogram puzzles? They’re a similar concept, but to make a picture instead of words. My partner does them and loves them; he uses an app called Nonogram Katana, but says there are several apps. The idea is to create a picture by selecting the correct color to go in each box, which you do based on a grid of probabilities, basically. I’m not sure I can explain it better than that! But the app he uses has all kinds of puzzles, including user submitted ones, that go from quite easy to ones that he spends days working on. Just thought that might be something up your alley!

Thank you for the suggestion! I think...it's a different kind of puzzle and not one I'd be very into, I have to admit. I do like sudoku on occasion and they seem to have a similar "logic puzzle" bent (as opposed to crosswords, which I think of as more like, a trivia game almost) but it feels a bit like how I felt when I encountered Mastermind, the color-guessing game that Wordle was based on structurally. I just couldn't really fathom the point.

As you say it's probability-based, which is a legit way to set up a puzzle system, but for me that boils down to guessing, and I just don't find guessing very interesting. Part of it is undoubtedly that I can't hold the memory of the guesses in my mind for very long, so I do a lot of "you already guessed that" and when I guess right I'm very conscious that it's not like I worked for it. There's an aspect of "don't write it down if you don't have proof" to crosswords and even more so to Sudoku that I find more satisfying. Which probably has something to do with my training as a researcher :D

But I do appreciate the thought!

#puzzles #crosswords #the quest for a diagramless that doesn't suck continues

[mosimyri]

Here's a cute custom greeting card commission I did a bit ago They wanted something with cats and crosswords, and there are so many possibilities for a theme like that! But this is what I went with in the end :3

#cat #painting #crosswords #artists on tumblr #art

[marnanel]

Headlines that look like crossword clues

("Lack of tacos! Lack of tacos!")

(It was a rhea!)

#cryptics #crosswords #cryptic crosswords #cw nudity #cw rats

[casualoptimist]

Klaas Verplancke’s “On the Grid”

I love this illustration by Klaas Verplancke for the recent ‘Style Issue’ of the New Yorker (which has a fun animated version of the cover on its website). It works on lots of levels, but it also feels like a bit of nostalgic throwback. People look at their phones these days (although I did see someone with a word search book on the Toronto subway this morning, so some people are keeping it old…

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#animation #cartoons #Comics #crosswords #grid #illustration #mondrian #New York #subway #the new yorker