{"id":243,"date":"2021-12-28T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=243"},"modified":"2021-12-27T04:24:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T04:24:49","slug":"mechapuzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/28\/mechapuzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Mechapuzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you familiar with <a href=\"https:\/\/boisvert42.github.io\/mechapuzzle\/\">Mechapuzzle<\/a>?\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a fan of meta-crosswords, or &#8220;contest crosswords&#8221; like the kind you might find at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/news\/puzzle\">WSJ<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/mgwcc\">MGWCC<\/a>, then you might find its analysis useful to help you solve the meta-puzzle.\u00a0 Up until recently, though, it only accepted .puz files, which (1) ewwww and (2) they had to be either solved and saved or unlocked to be useful.\u00a0 This was particularly complicated for the MGWCC, as Matt only offers locked .puz files.<\/p>\n<p>Things are better now!\u00a0 As of the most recent update to Mechapuzzle, you can now import a JPZ or iPuz to be analyzed.\u00a0 Since you can always get the JPZ from MGWCC directly or from <a href=\"https:\/\/old.reddit.com\/r\/crossword\/comments\/oxtv6n\/crossword_scraper_updates_now_supports_nyt\/\">Jeff&#8217;s crossword scraper<\/a> for basically all other sources, this will be able to analyze almost every meta-crossword you run into.\u00a0 Give it a try and if you successfully solve a meta using it, let us know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you familiar with Mechapuzzle?\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a fan of meta-crosswords, or &#8220;contest crosswords&#8221; like the kind you might find at the WSJ or MGWCC, then you might find its analysis useful to help you solve the meta-puzzle.\u00a0 Up until recently, though, it only accepted .puz files, which (1) ewwww and (2) they had to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/28\/mechapuzzle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Mechapuzzle&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crossword-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","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=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}