{"id":283,"date":"2022-02-18T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=283"},"modified":"2022-02-14T02:49:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T02:49:15","slug":"puzzle-30-every-which-way-with-clues-helter-skelter-variety-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/18\/puzzle-30-every-which-way-with-clues-helter-skelter-variety-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #30: Every Which Way With Clues (Helter Skelter Variety Puzzle)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>PUZZLE LINKS:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/EveryWhichWayWithClues.jpz\">JPZ Download<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/EveryWhichWayWithClues.jpz\">Online Solver<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SB3EcEfv6Lc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another day, another terrific tool courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/jpd236.github.io\/kotwords\/\">Jeff Davidson over at Kotwords<\/a>.\u00a0 This time it&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/jpd236.github.io\/kotwords\/helter-skelter.html\">tool to make Helter Skelter puzzles<\/a>, which is a variety puzzle I really like.\u00a0 So I had to try it out and make one!<\/p>\n<p>This may be a variety puzzle type some of you may be unfamiliar with, so here&#8217;s how it works:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a Helter Skelter puzzle, the answers interlock in eight different directions. To solve, put the entry corresponding to each clue beginning in the square with the clue number, proceeding toward \u2014 and possibly beyond \u2014 the next number. The lengths of the entries are for you to determine. When completed, every square in the puzzle will be filled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/halfbakedpuzzles.blogspot.com\/\">test-solver Will<\/a> for giving this one a once-over. Check out his recent <a href=\"https:\/\/spyscape.com\/crosswords\/puzzle-163-vertical-infiltration\">Spyscape<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/herbach.dnsalias.com\/uc\/uc220213.puz\">Universal<\/a> puzzles!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/EveryWhichWayWithClues.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 \ufeff\ufeff Another day, another terrific tool courtesy of Jeff Davidson over at Kotwords.\u00a0 This time it&#8217;s a tool to make Helter Skelter puzzles, which is a variety puzzle I really like.\u00a0 So I had to try it out and make one! This may be a variety puzzle type&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/18\/puzzle-30-every-which-way-with-clues-helter-skelter-variety-puzzle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Puzzle #30: Every Which Way With Clues (Helter Skelter Variety Puzzle)&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":[15,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-helter-skelter","category-puzzles","category-variety-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","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=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}