{"id":151,"date":"2021-09-03T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2021-08-30T04:00:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T04:00:01","slug":"puzzle-11-kaidoku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/03\/puzzle-11-kaidoku\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #11: Kaidoku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index2.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/kaidoku.jpz\">Online Solver<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Man, this takes me back.<\/p>\n<p>Years and years ago, Matt Gaffney, Joon Pahk and I ran dozens of Kaidoku (otherwise known as &#8220;coded crosswords&#8221;) on my now-defunct blog.\u00a0 Well I think it&#8217;s about time to bring these things back, so here&#8217;s one from the archives.\u00a0 How does a Kaidoku work, you ask?\u00a0 Well:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Each answer in a kaidoku, or coded crossword, is a common, lowercase English word. The numbers 1 through 26 each stand for a different letter of the alphabet, and instances of a given number stand for the same letter throughout the entire grid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think these are pretty fun.  Try this one out and tell me what you think!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online Solver Man, this takes me back. Years and years ago, Matt Gaffney, Joon Pahk and I ran dozens of Kaidoku (otherwise known as &#8220;coded crosswords&#8221;) on my now-defunct blog.\u00a0 Well I think it&#8217;s about time to bring these things back, so here&#8217;s one from the archives.\u00a0 How does a Kaidoku work, you ask?\u00a0 Well:&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/03\/puzzle-11-kaidoku\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Puzzle #11: Kaidoku&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kaidoku","category-puzzles","category-variety-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}