CROSSWORD SOLVER PUZZLE:
[ THERE’S A RIOT GOIN’ ON]
PROGRAM: [Crossword Solver]
PROGRAM: [Java]
PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ THERE’S A RIOT GOIN’ ON]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]
ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ THERE’S A RIOT GOIN’ ON]
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]
While I certainly don’t condone the behavior (behaviour?) happening across the pond, I couldn’t resist the idea for a theme. And if I’m going to go that route, why not go big? (Okay, it’s a daily-sized puzzle, not a Sunday, but you get the idea.)
While we still have the newspapers open, a couple people had asked me what I was referring to as the Holy Grail of crosswords in Alex Beam’s Boston Globe article. Simply put, the Holy Grail is one grid pattern, one set of clues, two wholly unique answers. Like the cup of mythology, this puzzling feat simply doesn’t exist. The closest we’ve come is this puzzle, still the ne plus ultra of the so-called schizophrenic puzzles (schizo in the sense that the answers can’t decide which way to go). While others have tried to make puzzles like this (me, for instance), to me, they always feel like a joke that we’ve heard a few too many times. Still, this gimmick beats circles in a grid any day of the week.
Okay. Share the puzzle. New one on Monday.
Brilliant!!
Interesting situation going on here; not a riot but a swampfire or forestfire. Parts of the Dismal Swamp were in flames causing a huge amount of acrid smoke to waft over Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Noyzefolk, Hampton, etc. VA. It screws around with your nose (and worse if you’re asthmatic). went ahead with what I regularly do. but this is starting to get annoying. Now for the XWP,Nice to see Don GIOVANNI in it. Kiri TEKANAWA, too.&&&&& I had “lost” the Diagramless XWP book that you put out, but found it. Relief.
Theme: Too soon? Feels icky to me.
Holy Grail: That’s what I guessed when I read the article. Man, that would be awesome. How unique do you think the solutions would have to be — I think some letters could be the same, as long as all 78 answers end up different.
I tried a Holy Grail about a year ago. Had some good long seed entries, but hit a wall after that.
Building two grids simultaneously, and cluing them as you go along (with clean, unforced clues), is tough because, for the most part, you need nouns corresponding with nouns, verbs with verbs, etc. I worked for a few hours on it and made so little progress that I gave up.
I’d like to try it again, though, on some rainy Sunday afternoon.
word ladder holy grail sporcle quiz:
http://www.sporcle.com/games/ostroffj/and_again_and_again
The two grids thing has never worked in our favor, we’ve hit many brick walls trying. It is the holy grail though and we will get there eventually, with very sore heads!