Crosswords and Crossword Tools
So you want to make a crossword blog but you don’t know what your options are for embedding crosswords into it? Or maybe you have a crossword blog and the embed method you’re using isn’t working for you? Follow along as we go through the various options so you can decide what’s best for you.
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver It’s an acrostic. You know the drill by now. Thanks to Kate for her ever-invaluable feedback. Enjoy the solve!
Did you enjoy our Snake Charmer puzzle last week? Did it inspire you to try to make your own? Well, you’re in luck, because we’ve released a tool to help you do just that. Check out the Snake Charmer Construction Tool, now available on our GitHub site. If you tried the Spiral tool the interface…
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Not a Yacht Rock puzzle today, but we named this one for a Christopher Cross song because we’ve got a Snake Charmer variety puzzle! Snake Charmer is a variety type invented by Patrick Berry and is traditionally presented in an “S” shape, but I prefer the more compact,…
We’re big fans of the pattern-matcher Qat here but it’s got its limitations. For one, you can’t use your own word list when fetching results, so you have to rely on Qat’s lists. Secondly, the results aren’t ordered by “interest” in any way, so you have to deal with whatever comes out no matter how…
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver If you’re just tuning in, we’re doing one puzzle for each episode of the Yacht Rock series, and this is our tenth one! You can find the others here. We have an easy-breezy themed puzzle today we hope you enjoy. Thanks to Kate for the test-solve! Enjoy the…
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Another day, another terrific tool courtesy of Jeff Davidson over at Kotwords. This time it’s a tool to make Helter Skelter puzzles, which is a variety puzzle I really like. So I had to try it out and make one! This may be a variety puzzle type…
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PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Video contains spoilers for today’s puzzle! This past weekend we made an acrostic on Twitch, and here it is! Thanks so much to everyone who watched the stream and participated in the creation of this puzzle. And then thanks to Will for test-solving it and saying “hey,…
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PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Thanks to our test solvers Meatdaddy and Britta for taking a look at this one! They said what I expected them to say, which is that they enjoyed the puzzle but did not understand how the title related to anything. Our friend Kate stepped in to suggest something…
We posted a spiral puzzle a while back on the blog and today we’d like to introduce a tool to help burgeoning Spiral creators make their own. Check out the Spiral Construction Tool, a guided way to make spiral puzzles of your own. You’ll need to supply the first words, but after that the tool…