{"id":744,"date":"2023-06-02T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=744"},"modified":"2023-06-02T02:12:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T02:12:12","slug":"puzzle-96-portals-with-kelsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/02\/puzzle-96-portals-with-kelsey\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #96: Portals (with Kelsey!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RSsstXfcRWw\" 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\/portals.jpz\">JPZ Download<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/portals.jpz\">Online Solver<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I had a dream about a new crossword type. I ran it past a few people on <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/ep2J3KXcmM\">Discord<\/a> and they didn&#8217;t laugh me off the stage, so here it is. Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/qvxwordz.blogspot.com\/\">Quiara<\/a> for the suggestion of calling it &#8220;Portals.&#8221; How does it work?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this puzzle type, the words don&#8217;t cross. Instead, each square in the grid is a portal to another square elsewhere in the grid. Squares with the same number will contain the same letter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kelsey jumped in and contributed some clues and entries to this one, thanks Kelsey! <a href=\"https:\/\/crosstina-aquafina.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/themeless-no-26.html\">Go solve her latest blog puzzle!<\/a> And all her other stuff; she&#8217;s great.<\/p>\n<p>This should basically just be thought of as a proof of concept for this puzzle type. Did you like it? What can we add to it in the future to give it more of a hook? Leave a comment below or hop into our Discord to discuss!<\/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\/portals.jpz\">Enjoy the solve!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver So I had a dream about a new crossword type. I ran it past a few people on Discord and they didn&#8217;t laugh me off the stage, so here it is. Thanks to Quiara for the suggestion of calling it &#8220;Portals.&#8221; How does it work? In this puzzle&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/02\/puzzle-96-portals-with-kelsey\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Puzzle #96: Portals (with Kelsey!)&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":[64,6,7],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portals","category-puzzles","category-variety-puzzles","tag-kelsey-dixon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","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=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}