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I'm working on Ekorbia: https://github.com/ekorbia/ekorbia-desktop . It's a lightweight, MIT licensed, Rust/Tauri desktop app for private local LLMs with a prompt library, chat ove…

Yes, I tried a while back to use LLMs for both the grid fill and the clue writing but was not able to generate dense puzzles. This pipeline uses a Rust fill engine that fills hundr…

I'm working on xword-pipeline: https://github.com/ekorbia/xword-pipeline It's a pipeline for generating dense crossword puzzles with a Rust grid fill engine and optional Claude bas…

WordFuzz is a set of 3 daily word games: - Crosswords: Daily mini 5x5 puzzles and occasional larger grids. - Word Pies: Make as many words as you can in two minutes from an eight l…

I’m a daily New York Times crossword player and I’ve built xword-pipeline with the goal of creating my own dense New York Times style crossword puzzles. The pipeline consists of a …

I'm a big fan of word games and I gave this a quick try. At a glance some of the games are a bit confusing and could use a pop-up explaining game play for first time users. What ar…

Looks cool! I tried this on Chrome and Firefox on my MacBook but couldn't get past the 'Connect your audio interface' screen. Firefox hung after clicking the start button and Chrom…

Yeah, it seems the general consensus is that LLMs can't generate large newspaper style crosswords. For now I will just use Phil to build mini puzzles and try using an LLM to help g…

Thanks. I'll give that a try. I also found https://crosshare.org/ which is open source and has a crossword constructor.

Thanks. I wasn't aware of XWords. It works well for generating puzzles with sequences of intersecting words. It doesn't seem to produce denser puzzles as you add more clues and ans…

Thanks for the response. I agree that specificity is important. I provided a few specific clues and answers along with the grid layout, and a theme as context. Ideally this would g…

Hi, I'm big fan of crossword puzzles such as the New York Times daily crossword and I'd like to build my own crossword puzzle game. Has anyone had any luck using AI or other tools …

I also found myself trying to drag the bars. Is dragging supposed to work on desktop? If not, I would clarify that in the "How to play" instructions. What dictionary are you using?…