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Month: November 2022

The Wisdom of Salomon

A while back, Quiara introduced the concept of a “Salomon number”. She explains it better than I could, but basically, how many collaborations do you need to go through to get from any given constructor to the greatest of all mentors, Nancy Salomon? Quiara says: As much as I wish there was an easy way…

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Crossword Tools

Puzzle #67: Iso Play (isogrammatic variety kaidoku)

PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Way back when I used to make kaidoku more frequently (… over a decade ago) fellow kaidoku enthusiast Joon Pahk had an insane idea to make these harder. You see, normally in one of these puzzles you’d look for unusual letter patterns to help you get a foothold….

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Kaidoku

Puzzle #66: Oooooooh Swirly (spiral)

PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver It’s a spiral! You know how to solve a spiral, right? When completed, this grid will contain two series of words—one reading inward from 1 to 100, the other outward from 100 back to 1. Every space will be used exactly twice. Work from both sets of clues…

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Puzzles

Puzzle #65: He’s Misstra Know-It-All (feat. Kate Chin Park!)

PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Final Innervisions puzzle, and our special guest for this one is Kate Chin Park! You can find Kate’s puzzles literally everywhere, but I admit to being partial to her indie puzzles, where she can be as silly and creative and long-winded as she wants. If you want to…

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Collabs

Puzzle #64: Don’t You Worry ’bout a Thing (feat. Norah Sharpe!)

PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Back to the Innervisions puzzles, this time with special guest Shannon Rapp, aka Norah Sharpe! I don’t know how many collabs we’ve had at this point, but it’s a lot, and it’s always a pleasure. Speaking of Norah collabs, did you see her recent collab with Chris Adams?…

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Collabs

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