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Re: Show HN: Bracket City – A daily, exploded (?) crossword puzzle

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Post by AnIrishDuck » Wed, Feb 26, 2025, 4:49 PM UTC

Hey! This is a lot of fun, thank you for putting it out into the world!

My wife is a public librarian that creates puzzles for a Summer Game that her library runs. She'd like to re-use this idea with book titles for their 2026 Games (too late for this year unfortunately).

How would you like to be credited if she's able to pull this off?

Re: Show HN: Bracket City – A daily, exploded (?) crossword puzzle

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Post by xamount » Thu, Feb 27, 2025, 3:16 PM UTC

Today, I somehow ended up with 96 keystrokes vs. the ideal of 95. Not sure when that happened, but I assume it was a mistake that I deleted? Does backspace not count as a stroke maybe? Otherwise, how is it possible to be one keystroke off?

Re: Show HN: Bracket City – A daily, exploded (?) crossword puzzle

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Post by devilbunny » Thu, Feb 27, 2025, 8:40 PM UTC

prideout wrote: post #36

Neat! I've been getting into crossword puzzles recently, does anyone know of nice places to play them, other than newspaper sites?

Brendan Emmett Quigley (just search his name, you will go right to it) publishes puzzles for free on his website, in addition to the ones he sells to NYT, WSJ, and others. You can get PDF's, solve on the site, or download in the Across Lite format.

Re: Show HN: Bracket City – A daily, exploded (?) crossword puzzle

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Post by jikahn » Sun, Mar 02, 2025, 7:49 AM UTC

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Re: Show HN: Bracket City – A daily, exploded (?) crossword puzzle

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Post by hiichbindermax » Sun, Mar 02, 2025, 2:05 PM UTC

I love this kind of puzzle! How long does it take you to make one?