{"id":939,"date":"2024-08-30T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=939"},"modified":"2024-08-30T09:02:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T16:02:44","slug":"puzzle-123-gridlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/30\/puzzle-123-gridlock\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #123: Gridlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/79UXKMXOLxM\" 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\/solve?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/gridlock.jpz\">Online Solver<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by our friend Tyler&#8217;s performance on a game show (um, seven years ago) we&#8217;re proud to present a gridlock puzzle! <a href=\"https:\/\/crosstina-aquafina.blogspot.com\/\">Kelsey<\/a> gave this one a test-solve, thanks Kelsey! Here&#8217;s how it works:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This puzzle consists of five grids with some letters pre-filled. In each grid, you must use letters from a nine-letter word to fill in the nine empty spaces to form common English words. You must determine which nine-letter word goes with which grid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tyler was able to solve one of these puzzles on TV in three and a half minutes. Post your times in the comments below!<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I&#8217;ve been busy on websites that aren&#8217;t mine. After you&#8217;re done with this one, check out a <a href=\"https:\/\/halfbakedpuzzles.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/puzzle-101-code-words-with-alex-boisvert.html\">themed crossword I made with Will Eisenberg<\/a> and an <a href=\"https:\/\/thedelicounter.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/you-could-have-it-all-my-empire-of.html\">acrostic I made with meatdaddy<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve?file=\/downloads\/site_puzzles\/gridlock.jpz\">Enjoy the solve!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUZZLE LINKS: Online Solver Inspired by our friend Tyler&#8217;s performance on a game show (um, seven years ago) we&#8217;re proud to present a gridlock puzzle! Kelsey gave this one a test-solve, thanks Kelsey! Here&#8217;s how it works: This puzzle consists of five grids with some letters pre-filled. In each grid, you must use letters from&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/30\/puzzle-123-gridlock\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Puzzle #123: Gridlock&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":[70,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gridlock","category-puzzles","category-variety-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","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=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}