{"id":306,"date":"2022-03-08T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=306"},"modified":"2022-03-01T04:30:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T04:30:37","slug":"snake-charmer-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/08\/snake-charmer-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Snake Charmer Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you enjoy our <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/04\/298\/\">Snake Charmer puzzle<\/a> last week?\u00a0 Did it inspire you to try to make your own?\u00a0 Well, you&#8217;re in luck, because we&#8217;ve released a tool to help you do just that.\u00a0 Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.github.io\/variety-tools\/snake_charmer\/\">Snake Charmer Construction Tool<\/a>, now available on our GitHub site.\u00a0 If you tried the <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.github.io\/variety-tools\/spiral\/\">Spiral tool<\/a> the interface will be very similar to you.\u00a0 The only catch here is that you&#8217;ll need to structure the inputs like in our example, where you wrap the end of loop 1 into the start of loop 2.\u00a0 To wit:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-308\" src=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Untitled-300x162.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Untitled-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Untitled.png 724w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The word &#8220;IN&#8221; in loop 2 here won&#8217;t be in the final puzzle.\u00a0 You just need it as a placeholder to continue building.\u00a0 It is up to you to ensure that loop 1 ends with a word ending with &#8220;IN&#8221; when you get to that point.\u00a0 Play around with it a bit and it will become second-nature.<\/p>\n<p>If you end up making something with us be sure to let us know about it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you enjoy our Snake Charmer puzzle last week?\u00a0 Did it inspire you to try to make your own?\u00a0 Well, you&#8217;re in luck, because we&#8217;ve released a tool to help you do just that.\u00a0 Check out the Snake Charmer Construction Tool, now available on our GitHub site.\u00a0 If you tried the Spiral tool the interface&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/08\/snake-charmer-construction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Snake Charmer Construction&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-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crossword-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","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=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}