Crosswords and Crossword Tools
Online Solver Man, this takes me back. Years and years ago, Matt Gaffney, Joon Pahk and I ran dozens of Kaidoku (otherwise known as “coded crosswords”) on my now-defunct blog. Well I think it’s about time to bring these things back, so here’s one from the archives. How does a Kaidoku work, you ask? Well:…
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Back with an acrostic today! I like how this one came out. Thanks to our test-solvers Chris and Ajay on Crosscord for looking this one over. Also, at Chris’s suggestion we’ve added a link to our Acrostic Generator to the main site, so it’ll be easier to…
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver I can’t believe I found an Oscar Wilde quote that fits symmetrically and that no one has used before. I mean, I literally can’t believe it, so I assume one of two things is true: either (a) someone has used it and I just wasn’t able to find…
JPZ | Online Solver Kate Chin Park– otherwise known as Kate Schmate on her website and on Twitter — collaborated with me on this one, and thank goodness she did, because this puzzle is WAY better than it would have been without her fingerprints on it. Kate is a pro at all aspects of…
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JPZ | Online Solver If you’re wondering why we’re posting so many acrostics recently, you may have missed the announcement of our Acrostic Puzzle Creation Tool. Since that announcement we’ve made some improvements to the tool. Most notably, you can now specify words you want to keep in the puzzle, and the tool will use…
JPZ | Online Solver A terrific interview with Parker Higgins dropped last week at Beyond Wordplay, and while there were many good bits, this little sentence stood out the most to me: A funny gap is that no one really talks about the license under which blog puzzles are released. This really got to me,…
Online Solver Why don’t more acrostics have titles? Aren’t they just rearranged quote theme puzzles? Here’s hoping this sparks a trend. Some of you have perhaps never solved an acrostic before, so here are instructions. Use the lettered clues below to fill in the numbered squares. Each letter will automatically be filled into the correspondingly…
Puzzle Links: JPZ | Online Solver I’m very pleased to be able to present this puzzle to you today, because it is a continuation of two crossword series I really enjoy. One is Adam Aaronson’s “Grid Charlemagne” series, which up until now consisted of two puzzles by Adam and one by Christopher Adams (maybe…
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ | Online Solver With the advent of online solving and advanced puzzle formats like JPZ, you have to question why we do some of the things we do. Like, why mark theme entries with an asterisk? If it’s not obvious which ones are your theme, you don’t want solvers hunting them down…
PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ | Online Solver Huge shout-out and very happy anniversary wishes to Amy Reynaldo and her whole crew with the original and still best crossword blog in all the land. I can honestly say that had Amy not given my first published puzzle such a nice write-up, I don’t think I would have…