I do the NYT crossword every day (current streak = 1079), and I loved to solve a rubik's cube as a kid.
This game is absolutely incredible. In about 10 minutes I've done a bunch of 3x3s and a 4x4 to see how it works with black squares. I'd encourage you to tweet this at the Wordplay / NYTGames accounts and to make lots more of these!
Actually, a little feedback:
- on my iPad the bottom row of a 9x9 gets clipped in a way that makes it very difficult to play https://imgur.com/a/EpSPiz1
- Some clues reference 14-across or 16-down or whatever, but I don't see the numbers in the squares / a full list of clues to compare with.
- I wish tab took me to the next clue and space changed me from across to down.
Thank you. I didn’t have the tutorial in the game before so I opted to put some tutorial text in the previous post.
Glad that you allow a couple reposts. This is a good example of that policy doing some good! My prior post didn’t get any traction so I’m glad to get some eyes on it this time around.
I've got rubiks skills, but once I moved up past 3x3 the crossword clues were super opaque to me. Very fun, though, and I'm not above googling the clue to find hints. Finished one 5x5 so far, but those 15x15s are super intimidating!
Agree, I clicked on a few 5x5s and too many of the clues required knowledge that I simply _don't have_. Very cool concept though, I have some experience with cubing but none of the theory behind it, and this is an easier space to derive commutators and the like.
I'm a lifetime intermediate NYT crossword solver and this is impossible. I love it. Got lucky where a few of them were all but done when I started. Haven't even tried anything bigger than 3x3
I’m not familiar with licenses really. I should look into that. I guess what I want is for people to be able to use it but not republish it as their own without modification.
Take a look at https://chooser-beta.creativecommons.org/. It's a simple Question based selector for Creative Commons licenses. It asks you about what you want others to (not) do with your work and recommends you a license.
What you want to do is find what I call a "donor letter".
Say you have:
BOAR
UPTO
MUTT
PSSA
Where you want to swap the last SA to make PSAS.
What you'll want to do here is find a 'donor letter' of either S or A. In this case we have the A of BOAR. You'll put the BOAR's A in the place you want the A in PSAS, in this case the third slot. Then put the S that is now floating down into the last slot of PSAS.
This game is absolutely incredible. In about 10 minutes I've done a bunch of 3x3s and a 4x4 to see how it works with black squares. I'd encourage you to tweet this at the Wordplay / NYTGames accounts and to make lots more of these!
Actually, a little feedback:
- on my iPad the bottom row of a 9x9 gets clipped in a way that makes it very difficult to play https://imgur.com/a/EpSPiz1
- Some clues reference 14-across or 16-down or whatever, but I don't see the numbers in the squares / a full list of clues to compare with.
- I wish tab took me to the next clue and space changed me from across to down.