{"id":776,"date":"2023-07-17T16:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/17\/bonus-puzzle-talk-is-cheap-dropquote\/"},"modified":"2023-07-17T19:13:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T19:13:34","slug":"bonus-puzzle-talk-is-cheap-dropquote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/17\/bonus-puzzle-talk-is-cheap-dropquote\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonus Puzzle: Talk Is Cheap (dropquote!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the blog I&#8217;ve been playing around with acrostic-like puzzles. We ran an acrostic without a quote that we called a &#8220;portals&#8221; puzzle (<a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/xw-portals)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/xw-portals)<\/a> and we&#8217;ve also run a dropquote, which is an acrostic without &#8230; well, without the acrostic, I guess. Here&#8217;s how it works:<\/p>\n<p>In a dropquote, you must reveal the quote hidden in the white squares. Above each column are a series of letters; you &#8220;drop&#8221; each letter into the appropriate squares in each row and column to reveal the quote. Use logic and letter patterns to determine which letter goes where.<\/p>\n<p>The puzzle is attached in JPZ and PDF form. You can solve the JPZ at <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy solving, and thanks for your continued patronage!<\/p>\n<div class=\"patreon-valid-patron-message\">This content is available exclusively to members of <b><a href=\"?utm_source=https%3A%2F%2Fcrosswordnexus.com%2Fblog%2F2023%2F07%2F17%2Fbonus-puzzle-talk-is-cheap-dropquote%2F&utm_medium=patreon_wordpress_plugin&utm_campaign=&utm_term=&utm_content=creator_profile_link_in_valid_patron_footer\" target=\"_blank\">this creator's Patreon<\/a> at $3 <\/b> or more.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the blog I&#8217;ve been playing around with acrostic-like puzzles. We ran an acrostic without a quote that we called a &#8220;portals&#8221; puzzle (https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/xw-portals) and we&#8217;ve also run a dropquote, which is an acrostic without &#8230; well, without the acrostic, I guess. Here&#8217;s how it works: In a dropquote, you must reveal the quote&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/17\/bonus-puzzle-talk-is-cheap-dropquote\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Bonus Puzzle: Talk Is Cheap (dropquote!)&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":[65,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dropquote","category-patreon-acrostics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","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=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}