{"id":637,"date":"2023-03-10T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=637"},"modified":"2023-03-09T18:48:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T18:48:08","slug":"puzzle-84-patchwork-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/10\/puzzle-84-patchwork-quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #84: Patchwork Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IvfsfS6NVUc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>PUZZLE LINKS<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Easier: <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/patchwork_quilt.ipuz\">iPuz Download<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/patchwork_quilt.ipuz\">Online Solver<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Harder: <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/patchwork_quilt_hard.pdf\">PDF Download<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/squares.io\/solve\/mhrgb9fn4ahddfssxj9j\">Online Solver<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ericberlin.com\/\">Eric Berlin<\/a> invented a puzzle type called &#8220;Patchwork&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ericberlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/NPL-Con-2021-Patchwork.pdf\">example puzzle here<\/a>) in which entries go in the grid either in rows, or in &#8220;patches&#8221; like the following<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-641 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/patches_example.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/patches_example.png 321w, https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/patches_example-294x300.png 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a cool puzzle type, but we&#8217;re doubling down on the patches in this one by adding color to the grid. Here&#8217;s how you solve:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Answers in this puzzle are entered in the irregularly shaped areas, either delineated by colors or by bars. Answers are entered left to right, row by row within each piece.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a pretty small puzzle (since we&#8217;re just getting warmed up with this new puzzle type) so if you want more of a challenge you are welcome to try the harder option, in which we don&#8217;t tell you which entry goes where. That one is available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/squares.io\">squares.io<\/a> interface, or as a PDF.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks go out to Will Eisenberg for making sure this puzzle type wasn&#8217;t completely ridiculous. If this is a hit I have more ideas for it, so stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/patchwork_quilt.ipuz\">Enjoy the solve!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUZZLE LINKS Easier: iPuz Download | Online Solver Harder: PDF Download | Online Solver Eric Berlin invented a puzzle type called &#8220;Patchwork&#8221; (example puzzle here) in which entries go in the grid either in rows, or in &#8220;patches&#8221; like the following It&#8217;s a cool puzzle type, but we&#8217;re doubling down on the patches in this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/10\/puzzle-84-patchwork-quilt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Puzzle #84: Patchwork Quilt&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patchwork-quilt","category-puzzles","category-variety-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","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=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}