{"id":504,"date":"2022-11-25T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=504"},"modified":"2022-11-25T17:17:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T17:17:02","slug":"puzzle-67-iso-play-isogrammatic-variety-kaidoku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/25\/puzzle-67-iso-play-isogrammatic-variety-kaidoku\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #67: Iso Play (isogrammatic variety kaidoku)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nwf6G3_UxWs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>PUZZLE LINKS:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/IsoPlay.jpz\">JPZ Download<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/IsoPlay.jpz\">Online Solver<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Way back when I used to make kaidoku more frequently (&#8230; over a decade ago) fellow kaidoku enthusiast <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joonpahk.com\/\">Joon Pahk<\/a> had an insane idea to make these harder. You see, normally in one of these puzzles you&#8217;d look for unusual letter patterns to help you get a foothold. Joon decided it would be fun to completely remove that avenue from the solver by making all the entries isograms, i.e. words with no repeated letters. We ended up making a few of them and they were &#8230; mean, but solvable.<\/p>\n<p>Another innovation in the genre we came up with was the following: what if not every entry in the grid was a common English word? We ended up calling these &#8220;variety kaidoku&#8221; to distinguish them from the vanilla type. This makes the puzzles slightly more interesting, as they give the puzzles a theme to uncover, and the solver is left wondering which entries are real words and which are not.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think we ever combined those ideas, so here we are today with an isogrammatic variety kaidoku. Let&#8217;s formalize what&#8217;s going on in this puzzle:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most entries in a variety kaidoku are common, lowercase English words. A few entries are not, and they are for you to find. The numbers 1 through 26 each represent 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>Impress your family by solving this in front of them! Or, struggle mightily and convince them that this type of puzzle is unsolvable. If you get a good solving time, I&#8217;d like to hear about it in the comments!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/IsoPlay.jpz\">Enjoy the solve!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Way back when I used to make kaidoku more frequently (&#8230; over a decade ago) fellow kaidoku enthusiast Joon Pahk had an insane idea to make these harder. You see, normally in one of these puzzles you&#8217;d look for unusual letter patterns to help you get a foothold&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/25\/puzzle-67-iso-play-isogrammatic-variety-kaidoku\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Puzzle #67: Iso Play (isogrammatic variety 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-504","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\/504","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=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}