{"id":251,"date":"2022-01-14T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2022-01-08T07:13:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T07:13:03","slug":"puzzle-25-the-sassy-simian-kaidoku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/14\/puzzle-25-the-sassy-simian-kaidoku\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #25: Sassy Simian (Kaidoku)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>PUZZLE LINKS:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/Kaidoku2.jpz\">JPZ Download<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/Kaidoku2.jpz\">Online Solver<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1V_xRb0x9aw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nTitling coded crosswords is a challenge. The plan for this one was to hint at some grid entries. We&#8217;ll see how it plays.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re unfamiliar with the concept of a coded crossword, here&#8217;s the rundown:<\/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>Last time I posted one of these some people asked &#8220;how do you even get started on these?&#8221; so here are some pointers:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Look for unusual letter patterns.\u00a0 Are there any words with double letters?\u00a0 How about a long word with only a handful of distinct letters?\u00a0 Spotting one or two of these can really get you going.<\/li>\n<li>Look for the Q.\u00a0 There has to be at least one, and there probably aren&#8217;t many.\u00a0 When there&#8217;s a Q it <strong>has<\/strong> to be followed by a U (no &#8220;qat&#8221; nonsense here) and that U is in turn followed by a vowel.<\/li>\n<li>Look for vowels (especially E).\u00a0 Letter frequency is your friend here.\u00a0 There are probably a lot of E&#8217;s in the puzzle, so which ones can that be?\u00a0 The advantage of solving digitally is that trial-and-error is a valid strategy here.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>What I think is so rewarding about these puzzles is they look absolutely impossible at first but once you get on a roll it feels great.\u00a0 Give it a go and don&#8217;t give up right away!\u00a0 It&#8217;s worth it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/Kaidoku2.jpz\">Enjoy the solve<\/a>, and as always, if you plan to solve on Twitch, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CrosswordNexus\">let us know about it!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Titling coded crosswords is a challenge. The plan for this one was to hint at some grid entries. We&#8217;ll see how it plays. If you&#8217;re unfamiliar with the concept of a coded crossword, here&#8217;s the rundown: Each answer in a kaidoku, or coded crossword, is a common, lowercase&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/14\/puzzle-25-the-sassy-simian-kaidoku\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Puzzle #25: Sassy Simian (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-251","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\/251","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=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}