{"id":900,"date":"2024-05-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=900"},"modified":"2024-04-26T18:00:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T01:00:01","slug":"puzzle-117-vital-discrimination-coded-acrostic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/03\/puzzle-117-vital-discrimination-coded-acrostic\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #117: Vital Discrimination (coded acrostic!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oSLZwFZcsqU\" 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\/VitalDiscrimination.jpz\">JPZ Download<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/VitalDiscrimination.jpz\">Online Solver<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coded acrostic? What the heck is such a thing? Well, here&#8217;s how it works:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this puzzle, the numbers 1 through 26 each stand for a different letter of the alphabet, and instances of a given number stand for the same letter throughout the entire grid. The upper grid is a quote reading from left to right, with black squares representing word endings. The bottom grid is there for you to keep track of which letter corresponds to which number. Numbers 1-10 spell out the author of the quote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; okay, you caught me, this puzzle is basically a cryptogram. In this particular case, it&#8217;s like a kaidoku because all letters A-Z are in the quote, and it&#8217;s like an acrostic in that the author&#8217;s name is spelled out. You can call it what you want; I&#8217;m going with coded acrostic. Hope you like it!<\/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><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\/index.html?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/VitalDiscrimination.jpz\">Enjoy the solve!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUZZLE LINKS: JPZ Download | Online Solver Coded acrostic? What the heck is such a thing? Well, here&#8217;s how it works: In this puzzle, the numbers 1 through 26 each stand for a different letter of the alphabet, and instances of a given number stand for the same letter throughout the entire grid. The upper&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/03\/puzzle-117-vital-discrimination-coded-acrostic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Puzzle #117: Vital Discrimination (coded acrostic!)&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":[8,11,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acrostic","category-kaidoku","category-puzzles","category-variety-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","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=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}