{"id":82,"date":"2021-07-06T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2021-07-07T01:19:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T01:19:57","slug":"diagramless-crosswords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/06\/diagramless-crosswords\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagramless Crosswords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.twitch.tv\/?video=1066795948&amp;parent=crosswordnexus.com\" width=\"620\" height=\"378\" frameborder=\"0\" time=\"1h12m9s\" autoplay=false muted=true scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><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>A few days ago, some of us had a great time doing some old New York Sun crosswords on stream, but instead of doing them the old-fashioned way, we first converted them to diagramless puzzles.\u00a0 This added an extra challenge, and discovering the shape of the grid was a surprise each time.\u00a0 It was great and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitch.tv\/boisvert42\">you should join us next time<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t join us on Twitch for a stream like this, we&#8217;re happy to announce that you can make diagramless puzzles for yourself!\u00a0 This seemed like a natural addition to the <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/apps\/obfuscate\/\">puzzle obfuscator<\/a>, and that is indeed where we&#8217;ve added it.\u00a0 Check it out if you want an extra-special challenge on your next puzzle!\u00a0 And I can highly recommend solving it in <a href=\"https:\/\/squares.io\">squares.io<\/a>, which provides an excellent interface for this sort of thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff A few days ago, some of us had a great time doing some old New York Sun crosswords on stream, but instead of doing them the old-fashioned way, we first converted them to diagramless puzzles.\u00a0 This added an extra challenge, and discovering the shape of the grid was a surprise each time.\u00a0 It was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/06\/diagramless-crosswords\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Diagramless Crosswords&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crossword-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","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=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}