Crosswords and Crossword Tools
Thanks to all of you who solved our last contest crossword, whether or not you figured out the meta and submitted an answer. Writeup, solution, and winner below the spoiler space, which will consist of adorable kittens. (kittens make everything so much better) Looking at the theme entries, we can see that all of them…
I’ve had a few people tell me they’d like to see more data around the Wisdom of Salomon website. As a data nerd myself I can’t believe I didn’t think of doing it earlier! So here goes. All data is current as of December 2022. The Graph Let’s start with the entire graph, if you…
Have you ever wanted to make your own version of the NYT’s Spelling Bee? Sure, it’s easy to just put down seven letters on a piece of paper, but what about scoring? Acceptable words? Easy playability? To my knowledge, something like that doesn’t exist. Until now! Check out Hexagon Lexicon, our please-don’t-sue-me-named word game that…
Hello and welcome to our long-overdue crossword blog. We’ll be discussing crossword solving and crossword construction, looking at some tools available on this site and elsewhere for those purposes, and even posting the occasional puzzle. We have also, shamefully, never had an outlet on this site for people to comment, say hi, or whatever. So…