{"id":719,"date":"2023-05-05T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=719"},"modified":"2023-05-02T05:34:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T05:34:41","slug":"puzzle-92-nes-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/05\/puzzle-92-nes-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #92: NES Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oEjtP9gRhDA\" 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><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>PUZZLE LINKS:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/NESBaseball.ipuz\">iPuz Download<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/NESBaseball.ipuz\">Online Solver<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s celebrate two things today: one is the return of baseball and two is the open beta release of <a href=\"https:\/\/ingrid.cx\/\">Ingrid<\/a>, the crossword construction software that allowed me to make this puzzle with both black squares and bars. Happy to have both things in my life!<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s grid is based on a sprite from the old NES baseball game. I was a much bigger fan of Baseball Stars myself, but I felt this sprite lent itself more readily to a crossword. I hope this puzzle brings you some retro enjoyment.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you like acrostic puzzles? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/crosswordnexus\">Join our Patreon!<\/a><br \/>\nDo you want a place to discuss puzzles? <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/ep2J3KXcmM\">Join our Discord!<\/a><br \/>\nDo you want even more puzzles? <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.chla.org\/goto\/AlexBoisvert\">Check out our charity puzzle pack!<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/NESBaseball.ipuz\">Enjoy the solve!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff PUZZLE LINKS: iPuz Download | Online Solver Let&#8217;s celebrate two things today: one is the return of baseball and two is the open beta release of Ingrid, the crossword construction software that allowed me to make this puzzle with both black squares and bars. Happy to have both things in my life! Today&#8217;s grid&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/05\/puzzle-92-nes-baseball\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Puzzle #92: NES Baseball&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":[9,13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crosswords","category-grid-art","category-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","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=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}